Arrest warrants filed for six drug suspects in Cape

The Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney’s office filed arrest warrants Friday for six Cape Girardeau residents suspected of dealing drugs or imitation drugs based on SEMO Drug Task Force investigations.

Four of the six suspects still were at large as of Monday afternoon.

The cases date to September and involve dealers selling fake methamphetamine, marijuana and prescription pills to undercover officers, according to probable-cause statements filed in the cases. Officers also executed a search warrant, confiscating about 80 grams of cocaine.

On Sept. 9, Bryan Zuniga, 20, of Cape Giraradeau sold eight grams of marijuana to an undercover SEMO Drug Task Force officer at the corner of Bellevue and Fountain streets in Cape Girardeau, according to a probable-cause statement filed in the case. The officer recorded the transaction on audio and video, according to the statement. The Cape Girardeau County prosecuting attorney’s office charged Zuniga with one count of distribution of a controlled substance. Zuniga still was at large Monday.

On Sept. 14, Crystal L. Tilley, 31, of Cape Giraradeau sold hydrocodone pills out of her prescription bottle to an undercover officer in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant in the 2100 block of William Street in Cape Girardeau and said she would have more pills to sell when she filled her prescription later that day, according to a probable-cause statement. The officer recorded the sale, according to the statement. The Cape Girardeau County prosecuting attorney’s office charged Tilley with one count of distribution of a controlled substance. She still was at large Monday.

On Oct. 22, James Williams Jr., 50, of Cape Girardeau sold Tramadol pills to an undercover office at an apartment in the 300 block of North Fountain Street in Cape Girardeau, according to a probable-cause statement. The officer recorded the transaction on audio and video, according to the statement. The Cape Girardeau County prosecuting attorney’s office charged Williams with one count of distribution of a controlled substance. He still was at large Monday.

On March 16, Aaron Price, 28, of Cape Girardeau and Danny Lee Warren, 31, of Scott City sold 60 grams of suspected methamphetamine to an undercover officer for $1,800 at an apartment complex parking lot in the 1500 block of Lexington Avenue in Cape Girardeau, according to a probable-cause statement. An officer field-tested the suspected methamphetamine with a negative result, according to the statement. Cape Girardeau County prosecuting attorney’s office charged Price and Warren with delivering an imitation controlled substance.

Price is serving a 15-year sentence for distribution of a controlled substance at the Eastern Reception Diagnostic Corrections Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri. Price pleaded guilty in Cape Girardeau County court to possession of a controlled substance and was sentenced July 5. Warren is serving a seven-year sentence for second-degree burglary and theft of a motor vehicle in Tipton Correctional Center in Tipton, Missouri.

On April 26, SEMO Drug Task Force officers served a search warrant at an apartment in the 800 block of Broadway in Cape Girardeau, according to a probable-cause statement. They found 82 grams of cocaine divided into 39 bags containing three, one and 1.5 grams each and 85 pills that tested positive for the anxiety drug Alprazolam, according to the statement. Officers called Michael D. Sander, 23, of Cape Girardeau — the registered resident of the apartment — but Sander hung up, according to the statement. The Cape Girardeau County prosecuting attorney’s office charged Sander with two counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, according to the statement. Sander still was at large as of Monday.

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Pertinent address: Bellevue and Fountain Streets, Cape Girardeau, MO

2100 block of William Street, Cape Girardeau, MO

300 block of North Fountain St, Cape Girardeau, MO

1500 block of Lexington Ave., Cape Girardeau, MO

800 block of Broadway, Cape Girardeau, MO