Conway PD: 3 facing drug, gun charges in Friday arrest

CONWAY, Ark. – Three people arrested by Conway police on Friday are now facing drug and gun charges.

According to investigators, officers obtained a search warrant on Friday for a home on 3 ^rd Street in connection with a felony warrant for Ryan L. Cockrell III for being an absconder through Arkansas Probation and Parole.

Officers said after gaining entry to the residence, three people were arrested. Those people were identified as Cockrell, Darius Gatewood and Tares Hunt.

During the execution of the search warrant, evidence was located to charge all three.

They are now facing charges of simultaneous possession of drugs and firearms, maintaining drug premises within a drug-free zone, possession of a controlled substance with the purpose to deliver and tampering with physical evidence.

Cockrell is also facing a charge of possession of a firearm by certain persons.

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