NEW: Controlled Buys, Arrest, and a Stolen Firearm
The Tarra Simmons Investigation from 2011 as you have never heard before.
In September 2011 the Bremerton Police Department’s Special Operations Group conducted controlled purchases of prescription painkillers from Tarra Denelle Denton (also known as Tarra D. Simmons).
On September 20, a police operative arranged to buy three 15 mg Percocet pills for $60. Surveillance teams tracked her to a Taco Bell parking lot on Kitsap Way, where Denton (Simmons) arrived in a gray Honda Odyssey. Then she entered Denton’s (Simmons) vehicle, completed the transaction, and later turned the pills over to detectives.
On September 22 a purchase was made for two Percocet pills for $40 each after Denton (Simmons) initially refused to sell unless she “boosted” merchandise for her (Simmons) from a local Fred Meyer store.
The final controlled buy occurred around September 27, when detectives recovered green A214 pills confirmed as 15 mg oxycodone.
On September 29 detectives arrested Denton (Simmons) outside her home. Denton (Simmons) acknowledged abusing prescription pills, methamphetamine, but she requested an attorney before discussing further details.
During the search, officers recovered 21 alprazolam pills, drug paraphernalia, packaging materials. A baggie containing three pills matching those purchased in the controlled buys was found with Denton (Simmons) at the time of her arrest.
A search warrant was obtained for Denton’s (Simmons) Coach purse and the Dodge Avenger. A narcotics K-9 alerted to both. In the purse, detectives found roughly 40 grams of marijuana, a digital scale, $393 in cash, multiple cell phones, and various prescription pills, including hydrocodone (Watson 853), methadone and Suboxone.
In the vehicle they found approximately 179 grams of marijuana packaged in multiple bags, additional scales, packaging materials, methamphetamine residue and small bags, glass pipes, and a .32-caliber Kel-Tec semi-automatic handgun with a loaded magazine. The serial number on the firearm matched a firearm reported stolen weeks prior. Additional hydrocodone pills were found in the vehicle.
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