Four people are arrested

Home where missing woman last seen among targets hit

in a series of raids on members of an alleged drug ring.

The FBI and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office arrested four people Thursday in a series of raids on members of an alleged drug ring, including one who is a person of interest in the case of a missing mother.

James Dellafield Jr., 44, was questioned in August about Tia Bonta’s July 31 disappearance; he told police he’d last seen the 24-year-old woman when he dropped her off at a home at 2837 Cleburne Road in east Orange County. One person was taken into custody there during the raids.

Dellafield and co-defendants Frederick Edward Dorr, whose first name is spelled “Fredrick” in some records, Danny Lee Hampton, Beth Farber and George Materazzi were arrested Thursday and face charges of possession and distribution of heroin and cocaine, U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Will Daniels said.

Officers arrested Dorr outside the Cleburne Road home where Dellafield told police he’d last seen Bonta, a student at Keiser University. On Aug. 19, they searched woods off the dead-end residential street after Bonta’s disappearance.

Bonta, the mother of a 1-year-old son, had a history of drug use, and the Bonta family private investigator, James Copenhaver, said in August he couldn’t rule out whether her struggles led to her disappearance.

He said he expects “some movement” in Bonta’s case now that Dellafield and his co-defendants have been arrested.

Orange County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Rose Silva said there are no updates in Bonta’s case.

The FBI had a search warrant seeking Dorr at the house at 2835 Cleburne Road, but he was found next door at 2837 Cleburne, agency spokeswoman Andrea Aprea said.

But the Orlando couple who lives at the home said law officers got the wrong house when they burst inside about 6 a.m., ruining their front door, windows, new $3,000 flooring and front yard.

Oscar Capps Jr., 54, was home when deputies used a loudspeaker to order him to come outside. He obliged, but officers knocked down his front

door and shattered his windows, one of which sprayed glass onto his 7-year-old’s bed, Capps said.

Capps said he and a 71-year-old woman who lives with him were zip-tied outside while authorities searched his home. His son was held by officers in a car. The family was released later. Outside, a cartoon dragon and butterfly windmills decorated the front lawn, which still had deep ridges torn through the grass from SWAT vehicles.

Capps said he watched Dorr’s arrest next door. He knew the man only by his street name, “Rock,” and said he’d seen him sleeping on his neighbor’s porch occasionally.

Capps and his wife, Cathy Rhude, 47, said they have suspected unsavory behavior at the house next door for some time.

Rhude said she has called 911 for three years “to get the dope out of this neighborhood,” with few results.

“They say, ‘If you see something, say something,’ but they haven’t taken care of anything, and look at my home,” she said, pointing to the plywood placed where her door once stood.

The Sheriff’s Office and the FBI maintained Thursday that they “did not hit the wrong house,” Silva said. A signed arrest warrant for Dorr lists 2835 Cleburne Road as Dorr’s last known residence.