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Sheriff’s Deputies Confiscate Marijuana, Prescription Medicine and Weapons at a Memphis Home

Release Date: August 17, 2005

Shelby County Narcotics Detectives raided a house on Wildwood Drive near Rhodes and Getwell in Memphis this past weekend. They recovered thousands of dollars worth of marijuana, prescription drugs and several weapons including a submachine gun.

Just after 6:15 Sunday evening, Narcotics and S.W.A.T. Team Deputies, armed with a search warrant for the drugs, knocked on the door of the house in the 4000 block of Wildwood Drive. After receiving no answer, officers forced their way into the house and found two men and a young girl hiding inside.

While searching the house belonging to Tyrone “Cream” McCoy, 31, Deputies found 300 Xanax pills hidden in a shoebox in a bedroom closet along with 4,000 Hydrocodone pills, known by the prescription drug name, Lortab.

Investigators also found more than $2150 dollars in cash hidden in a bedroom closet along with three guns which included a submachine gun.

Both McCoy and Henry Crawford, 33, of Houston, Texas, were arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance with the intent to manufacture, deliver or sell narcotics. They were also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

The young girl with them was released.

Tyrone McCoy	Henry Crawford	Crystal Madison

 

While the raid was being conducted inside the house, a car pulled into the driveway of the home driven by Crystal Madison, 20, of Memphis. When Deputies approached the 2005 Red Dodge Magnum, they smelled marijuana burning inside the car.

Detectives found 0.2 g of marijuana in the ashtray. Officers found two bottles of the prescription medicine Oxycontin that had been prescribed to another person.

Madison was charged with the possession of a controlled substance with the intent to manufacture, deliver or sell narcotics. She was also charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

The Project Safe Neighborhoods Task Force is also investigating and additional charges may be placed as a result of the weapons being found at the time the narcotics were discovered.

 

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