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Four Alleged Drug Traffickers Arrested in Moss Point

FBI Jackson March 03, 2009
  • Supervisory Special Agent Jason Pack (601) 948-5000

On March 1, 2009, Clarence Bernard Sibley, aka “Nard”, age 26 of Moss Point, Mississippi; Lamarcus Jerome Coleman, age 21 of Moss Point; Roy Andrew Broughton, age 47 of Moss Point; and Alexander Aponte, age 40, of Pascagoula, Mississippi, were arrested following a joint investigation by the Moss Point Police Department, the Narcotics Task Force of Jackson County and the FBI Safe Streets Task Force of Pascagoula, Mississippi. At the time of these arrests, Agents recovered approximately 90 grams of crack cocaine, 11 grams of powder cocaine and a Glock .40 caliber pistol. The estimated value of the cocaine seized was $10,000.00. All four subjects are being charged with Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine.

The Moss Point Police Department (MPPD) initially responded to the scene of a domestic disturbance at 5019 Freeman Street in Moss Point. Based on the initial investigation which determined that narcotics were involved, the MPPD contacted the Narcotics Task Force of Jackson County and the FBI Safe Streets Task Force. Frederick T. Brink, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Mississippi, praised the officers and agents of the law enforcement agencies which cooperated in the investigation and these arrests. "The Moss Point Police Department did an excellent job in this investigation and their work, along with that of the Narcotics Task Force of Jackson County, was instrumental in the seizure of these narcotics and the resulting federal charges against these subjects.”

Clarence Bernard Sibley, aka “Nard”, Lamarcus Jerome Coleman, Roy Andrew Broughton and Alexander Aponte are scheduled for an initial appearance before United States Senior Magistrate Judge John M. Roper, Southern District of Mississippi, Gulfport, Mississippi at 1:30 p.m. on March 3, 2009.

If convicted of the Conspiracy to Distribute Cocaine charges against them, all four subjects could face penalties of up to life in a federal prison and $4,000,000.00 in fines.

The FBI Safe Streets Task Force is a Gulf Coast High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) initiative and receives funding from the Office of National Drug Control Policy in Washington, D.C. It is comprised of Special Agents from the FBI and law enforcement officers from the Pascagoula, Moss Point, Gautier, and Ocean Springs Police Departments, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.

Brink stressed that there is a presumption of innocence prior to any judicial proceeding.