Large Drug Trafficking Operation Busted, Probationer Charged

ACCROSS ALABAMA — Officers with the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles announced Thursday that they recently broke up a drug trafficking operation in Dothan, seizing six pounds of marijuana and cash.

Ken Brown, officer-in-charge of the Bureau’s Dothan office, said officers received a tip Tuesday that probationer Demetrius Roberts, also known as “Sir Charles,” had set up shop in a hotel room at the Red Roof Inn on Montgomery Highway and was dealing a large amount of narcotics.

According to the agency, officers arrived at the hotel room and conducted a search. Ultimately, they found six pounds of marijuana, digital scales, Ziploc bags and $17,000 cash. The street value of the marijuana is about $6,000.

Roberts, 34, was arrested and booked into the Houston County jail on a charge of trafficking marijuana, a violent felony under Alabama law.

“The law enforcement officers of the Bureau of Pardons and Paroles do amazing work every day in keeping Alabamians safe from crime,” Judge Charlie Graddick, Director of the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles, said. “These officers put their lives on the line to supervise offenders and to make arrests when parolees and probationers are violating the law. I am grateful for their bravery and dedication. This is great work by the officers in our Dothan office.”