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8 people arrested after LA State Fair drug sweep

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Adam Anderson (All photos courtesy Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office) Adam Anderson (All photos courtesy Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office)
Jay Beeson Jay Beeson
Tyler Dickson Tyler Dickson
Fawn Odom Fawn Odom
SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) -

A weekend drug sweep at the Louisiana State Fair turned up eight people, three of them carnival employees, all arrested on a variety of drug possession charges.

Agents with the Caddo-Shreveport Narcotics Unit made the arrests Saturday night during "Operation Replay." The sweep was done in an effort to stop people from buying, selling, or using drugs during the fair.

The people arrested during the operation were:

  • Issam Alkheidi*, 26, of Huntington Beach, CA, for possession of schedule I narcotics (misdemeanor)
  • Adam Anderson, 31, of Shreveport, for possession of schedule IV
  • Tyler Dickson, 20, of Traskwood, AR, for possession of schedule III
  • Jay Beeson*, 31, of Dallas, for possession of schedule III
  • Timothy Haley, 41, of Hawkins, TX, for possession of schedule I with intent to distribute
  • Rumney Evertt, 50, of Shreveport, for possession of schedule IV
  • Fawn Odom*, 31, of Casper, WY, for possession of schedule III
  • Paul Marrow, 57, of Doyline, for possession of schedule III

    • * Carnival Worker