On November 25, 2024, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of Leesburg, Eustis, Mount Dora, and Clermont Police Departments, served a search warrant at 2150 Lisa Dare Drive in Leesburg. The search warrant is the result of several months of investigations into the location, which can be described as a one-stop shop for all types of illegal narcotics. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office had received several complaints regarding this location and the activity that was taking place. During the investigation, it was learned that Jerry Parker, aka Monkey Nutt, was utilizing this location to distribute illegal narcotics. Jerry Parker, who was out on bond for a previous conspiracy to traffic in cocaine charge, also had an active warrant for a second trafficking in cocaine charge. As the Lake County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team secured the location, multiple subjects were seen fleeing from the scene, one of which was Jerry Parker. Jerry Parker was arrested several minutes later at a secondary location, removing his GPS monitor issued by the court as a bond condition on his pending charges.
Once the scene was secured at Lisa Dare Drive, detectives executed the search warrant and located the following items at the property.
- -Approximately 117 grams of cocaine
- -20 grams of fentanyl
- -24 grams of methamphetamine
- -1 ½ pounds of marijuana
Detectives also located multiple items utilized in mixing, packaging, and manufacturing illegal narcotics.
As a result of the search warrant, the following arrests were made:
- -Jerry Parker (DOB 9/14/1973) was charged with the removal/tampering of his court order GPS tracking device and the active warrant for trafficking in cocaine (no bond).
- -Dwane Turner (DOB 01/06/1991) was arrested for possession of cocaine.
- -Erick Smith (01/03/1986) was arrested for an active warrant out of Lake County for Domestic Battery.
- -Juan Smith (01/11/1968) was arrested for possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana over 20 grams, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
