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Drug Investigation Leads To Latest Arrest

By Brian Hagen

01/05/2016

Johnny Mitchell III

(KAIR)--An ongoing investigation, focused on the sale of illegal drugs in Atchison, lands another suspect behind bars.

“The Atchison Police Department and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation conducted a joint investigation into illegal drug activity between 2013 and 2015, and a sixth arrest connected to that investigation was made on Monday,” Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson tells MSC News.

He says the focus of the latest arrest in connection with the investigation is 56-year-old Atchison resident Johnny Mitchell III. “He's charged with distribution of cocaine, use of a telecommunication facility to facilitate a controlled substance transaction, and no drug tax stamp. His specific case focused on his former residence in the 900 block of North 6th.”

Wilson says more arrests are expected to be made in the future. “We've got a number of them to go yet.”

Mitchell was booked into the Atchison County Jail, but is currently free on a $25,000 bond.

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