[StBernard] St. Bernard drug raid tally rises to 10 arrests

[Westley Annis]

By Chris Kirkham, The Times-Picayune
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December 10, 2009, 6:30PM

After nearly a year of undercover investigations of street-level drug
dealers throughout the parish, St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office
detectives were out at 5 a.m. Thursday on a door-to-door roundup across the
parish seeking 22 crack cocaine and heroin dealing suspects.

Deputies arrested 10 of the 22 suspects Thursday, and also arrested the
brother and sister of one suspect at a house in Violet, after they found a
loaded, stolen gun and crack cocaine at the scene. Most of the arrests were
in Violet, and a few others in Chalmette and Meraux. The other 12 suspects
were either not home, or the Sheriff's Office had a bad address.

Sheriff's Office narcotics detectives have been doing investigations on many
of the suspects since January, doing undercover purchases and obtaining
video surveillance of them selling the drugs. The Sheriff's Office obtained
arrest warrants this week to carry out the sweep.

Arrested Thursday, according to the Sheriff's Office, were: Rhodesia Track,
31, of Chalmette; Troy Douglas Jr., 22, of Chalmette; Cornell Young, 32, of
Meraux; Barry Smiles Jr., 50, of Violet; Ronald Hudson Jr., 38, of Violet;
Ternell Bienemy, 27, of Violet; Wayne Bienemy, 53, of Violet; James
Williams, 21, of Violet; Dernard Bienemy, 26, of Violet; and Dominique
Brown, 21, of Violet. Justin Barthelemy, 23, and Trimaine Barthelemy, 28,
were not on the list but were also arrested on gun and drug charges when
deputies found a stolen gun and crack cocaine in the house while looking for
another suspect, Timmery Barthelemy, 30, who was not there. Six others were
on the suspect list but were already in area jails on other charges. Those
suspects were: Nathaniel Bennett, 25, of Violet; Edward Williams, 46, of
Violet; Tremaine Duplessis, 27, of Violet; Remus Reed, 20, of Violet;
Broderick Parker, 22, of Violet; Pernell Young Jr., 28, of Meraux.