Cooper Store Road Man Arrested for Cocaine


On Friday March 15, 2019 Lee County Sheriff’s Office Narcotics agents arrested Joel Ellis Yates, age 53, of 130 Cooper Store Road, Sanford.

Agents found Yates in possession of two tenths of a gram of crack form cocaine. Agents transported Yates to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, and processed Yates with one count of possession with the intent to sell and deliver cocaine, one count of felony maintaining a vehicle used for the storage and sells of illegal controlled substance, and one count of misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.

Yates was jailed under a $5,000.00 secured bond.

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