WASHINGTON COUNTY — A weekend search warrant netted a huge amount of heroin and fentanyl, according to the Washington County district attorney.
“I thought it was just a minor thing, not this big thing going on now,” Desiree Devore said.
Neighbors like Desiree Devore have lived beside John Beebe III for years and never knew there was a drug operation happening right next door.
She was home when officers showed up Saturday, with guns drawn.
”And the cops got out with guns saying there’s a warrant, and we need to look in your house open the door,” Devore said.
Police served a search warrant on John Beebe’s house on Twin Bridges Road in Fallowfield Township.
Police said they found multiple long guns and handguns, $40,000 in cash and a large amount of heroin and fentanyl inside the home.
”I was shocked. I thought maybe it was weed, I didn’t realize it was guns and everything. I was shocked,” Devore said.
Investigators got a tip from Beebe’s boss after two packages were delivered to his tire shop in Charleroi.
They were addressed to John Beebe.
Inside those packages, police said they found 26,000 stamp bags, caffeine powder and sweetener.
Both are known to police as cutting agents to mix with heroin.
”I have a 12-year-old running around here and they got kids next door so I was a little worried about it too,” Devore said.
Police also found Donald and Jobe Franks inside Beebe’s house. They said Donald was trying to climb out through a bathroom window and his son, Jobe, was found in a bedroom sitting next to an AR rifle and a bundle of heroin.
Both father and son had warrants for their arrest and were taken to jail without bond.