Suspects in Recent Drug Sweep Appear in Court

CLEARFIELD – Those arrested in a recent drug sweep appeared in Centralized Court on Wednesday.

Last week Clearfield County District Attorney William A. Shaw Jr. announced that a drug operation conducted by the Clearfield County Drug Task Force has resulted in arrest warrants being issued for 13 individuals involved in the sale of controlled substances.

The following people were arrested/served warrants:

• Chad Butler, 28, of Moose Street, Clearfield (four separate cases, waived all)
• Dennis Rauch Jr. , 24, of Patton Street, Clearfield (two separate cases, hearings, all bound over)
• Dexter Mclaughlin, 40, of South Second Street, Clearfield (waived hearing)
• Sam Saverino, 21, of Lingle Street, Osceola Mills (waived hearing)
• Michael D. Warrick, 21, of Hill Street, Clearfield (wasn’t schedule)
• Autumn Tillman, 25, of Fourth Avenue, Curwensville (waived hearing)
• Robert A. Dixon Jr. ,24, of Barn Road, Clearfield (waived)
• Catherine L. Luzier, 42, of Egypt Road, Woodland (waived)
• Justin A. Dixon, age 33, of McFadden Road, Grampian (waived)
• Mark Hackett Sr., 50, of Mapes Avenue, Clearfield (two separate cases, continued)
• Charles Scott Mayhew, 25, of Valley View Drive, Clearfield (waived)
• Billie Jo Shaw, 26, of Valley View Drive, Clearfield (waived)
• Dennis Collins Jr., 23, of Valley View Drive, Clearfield (waived)

Shaw stated in that press release that in the early morning of Feb. 10, members of the Clearfield County Drug Task Force spanned out throughout the county to serve the arrest warrants.

Shaw said that these arrests are the results of a two-year cooperative drug investigation in Clearfield County. Shaw further explained that the comprehensive investigation, coordinated by the Clearfield County District Attorney’s Office and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Bureau of Narcotics Investigation (State College Office), focused on street and mid-level drug dealers, where many of the suspects were selling the controlled substances on the streets, in parking lots, in local establishments and in apartments and houses throughout the county.

Shaw said that once these suspected dealers were identified, the various law enforcement agencies combined resources and manpower to make controlled purchases from the drug dealers. Shaw also indicated that investigators utilized undercover agents/officers, surveillance, electronic intercepts and confidential informants to make controlled purchases of illegal drugs such as heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine, various prescription medications and marijuana.