The Palm Beach Post

Years of complaints by neighbors lead to arrest

Drug bust at house comes after 56 calls made to police.

- By Jodie Wagner Palm Beach Post Staff Writer jwagner@pbpost.com Twitter: @JRWagner5

JUPITER — Between Nov. 27, 2011, and June 19 of this year, 56 service calls were placed to the Jupiter Police Department concerning suspicious activity at a yellow-and-white, single-family home in the Riverside Drive Park community.

The first 12 calls covered a 3½-year span, with the major- ity of those calls occurring in May and June of 2015. A month later, three people were arrested at the home on narcotics charges.

The calls stopp ed for nearly four months after those arrests but resumed on Oct. 11 of that year.

Forty-three more calls followed, with the final one being placed June 19.

That was the day 54-year- old Danial Leroy Larson was arrested and charged with possession of cocaine and tion that yielded evidence of narcotics use at the residence, were enough to persuade a judge to sign off on the warrant.

When Jupiter Po l ice’s SWAT Team m emb e rs searched the home, they drug parapherna­lia. found three metal pipes with

Larson’s arrest was preburn residue, eight empty ceded by a search warrant capsules containing more executed at the home. The residue, and a plastic bag warrant, which was signed containing trace amounts by a judge six days earlier, of cocaine. detailed multiple complaints Larson was arrested and about suspicious activity transporte­d to the Palm near the home. Beach County Jail without

According to the warrant, incident. there were complaints of He was released on $3,000 possible narcotics and pros- bond two days later. titution activity at the home, The arrest was Larson’s as well as increased vehicle ninth in Palm Beach County traffic. Used condoms that since 2015, according to the came from the property were Palm Beach County Sheriff ’s found over the fence, while Office. Most of the arrests people randomly walked are drug- or theft-related. door-to-door asking if “this Larson has pleaded not is the house to buy drugs,” guilty to both of his recent the warrant said. charges, according to court

Also, according to the warrecords. The case remains rant, “several residents are open. in fear for their lives.”

These claims, coupled with a Jupiter Police Department

Street Crimes Unit investiga-

 ??  ?? Danial Leroy Larson, 54, was arrested June 19.
Danial Leroy Larson, 54, was arrested June 19.

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