Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies swept through Selma Wednesday, and by the time they were done, 22 individuals were on their way to the Perry County Jail in Uniontown on drug charges.

United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown, Selma Chief of Police William T. Riley and representatives of other law enforcement agencies gathered at Wallace Community College-Selma to give a full review of the day’s events.

Brown said 28 individuals were indicted on 21 separate indictments from December and January for various crack cocaine and cocaine trafficking offenses. Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration of New Orleans, the Mobile Enforcement Team, officers with the Selma Police Department Narcotics Unit, Demopolis Police Department SWAT team, Alabama National Guard and others teamed together to cap a four-month investigation on traffickers in Selma.

“The investigation primarily involved the agents making controlled buys from various defendants using audio and video recording equipment,” Brown said. “However, the exemplary work of the DEA agents and SPD officers was also aided by the Alabama Army National Guard Counter Drug Operations Team, which supplied an aircraft and highly trained air crew to the MET team.”

The aircraft, Brown said, flew approximately 50 missions in support of the DEA-MET undercover operations. The aircraft served as a surveillance platform that provided video imaging in law enforcement operations.

The most significant conspiracy, Brown said, involved Kendolplous Kendale Haynes, Jonathan Leroy Blevins, Tyrron Stallworth, Monica Rechell Swift and Bernice Vighter Johnson, who were all indicted on a 10-count indictment.

Also arrested were Derrick Lashun Walker, Johnny Earl Smith, Billy Davis, Chester Ray Perkins, Derrick Leon Edwards, Jamie Jerome Leshore, Jermaine Carlo Watts, Jeffrey T. Ervin, Gatrick Tercell Lewis, Theresa Caffey Craig, Jasper Julius Smith, Ricky Lee Powell, Rodney Mitchell, Kurt Javarious Marks, Cedric Charles Fuller, Taurus Crawford, and Quienten Deon Thomas.

Brown said all defendants face either a 20-year maximum sentence or a 40-year maximum sentence based on the amount of crack cocaine involved in their offenses.

Six of the 28 offenders, including Ernest Jermaine Stevenson, Joe Louis Acoff, Marlon Jermaine Miles, Tchelpio Woods, Deandre Davis and Elmore Orlando Dudley, remain at-large, though Brown said they feel confident arrests will be made.

Brown said he was pleased to see the investigation, which cost more than $700,000 to put together, come to an end.