Officers make several arrests

The Donley County Sheriff’s Department arrested three local people on drug charges last Tuesday, May 21.

Melissa Ann Kopp, 26; Peter Brandon McManus, 26; and Johnny Lee Blackwell, 32, were each charged with Possession of Marijuana in misdemeanor amounts, according to Sheriff Butch Blackburn.

Officers acted on a tip from a confidential informant and obtained a warrant for the residence at 303 Ellerbe Street, where they found the individuals with the controlled substance. All three pled guilty and were given probation and fined, the sheriff said.

Also last Tuesday, the Randall County Sheriff’s Department arrested 29-year-old Dave Perry in Canyon as a result of an indictment by the Donley County Grand Jury.

Perry was charged with Delivery of a Controlled Substance, a state jail felony. Sheriff Blackburn said Perry previously lived in Clarendon and had sold methamphetamines to an undercover Department of Public Safety narcotics agent.

Perry is currently out on bond.

Blackburn also says his office has cleared up a Hedley burglary which occurred last summer.

Mike Glover, 36, and Mark Glover, 30, were indicted for the August 2001 burglary of Moffitt Hardware. The younger Glover was in the Donley County Jail at press time.