Plea for help leads to bust





A call for help ended with two people arrested for dealing drugs and another still wanted by Waynesboro police.

Demetree Harden, 30, and Clarence Freeman, 60, were jailed Thursday after a caller said Harden was in a shack behind Freeman’s Tucker Avenue home, where her boyfriend was beating her with a gun and holding her against her will.

The caller also said Harden’s boyfriend, 28-year-old Rayquis Watson, was wanted by U.S. Marshals.

According to investigator Claude Wade, police looked for Watson at the same house just two weeks ago and warned both Harden and Freeman, who is Watson’s uncle, they would be arrested if they failed to notify police of his return. Watson is wanted on drug charges in New York, he said, and has a federal flight warrant issued for his arrest.

When officers responded Thursday they didn’t find Watson, but Harden was in the shed with a pit bull and more than 70 pieces of crack cocaine. They also found 25 hydrocodone pills, marijuana, ecstasy and a gun.

She was arrested for possession of marijuana (less than one ounce), possession of a controlled substance, possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and hindering the apprehension of a criminal.

Freeman, who admitted to seeing as many as 20-25 people visiting his shed daily, was also arrested on drug and weapons charges, as well as hindering the apprehension of a criminal.

Police are still looking for Watson. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call investigators at 706-554-8029.


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