Drugs, weapons confiscated
Three arrested
Pea Ridge Police arrested three persons and confiscated weapons, drugs and money as the result of serving a search warrant at a residence on Lynn Drive in Windmill subdivision about 2 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 8.
In the residence, police found an assault rifle and a handgun, hashish and drug paraphernalia. In a vehicle at the residence, police found a backpack with more than $5,000 in cash and a measuring tube for marijuana. Police also found a baggie of a yellow powder in a baggie that was identified as DMT, a psychedelic substance.
On one resident, police found a a baggie of “a few grams of a white powdery substance” later confirmed to be cocaine and a cut straw of cocaine residue.
Arrested were: Jeffrey Aaron Johnson, 26, Pea Ridge, for felony simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms, possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance Sch. I, II; Riley Ahrens Blair, 26, Pea Ridge, for felony simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms, possession with purpose to deliver controlled substance Sch. VI and possession of drug paraphernalia; and Tessa Rhane Welch, 27, Pea Ridge, felony simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms, possession with purpose to deliver controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Items confiscated included 1.85 pounds of marijuana, $14,046 in cash; two assault rifles with four loaded magazines; a loaded handgun; several grams of suspected cocaine; several hundred prescription and designer pills; several ecstasy pills; crushed adderall; DMT powder; hashish; psychedelic mushrooms and drug paraphernalia.