Three arrested following Luling drug, gun bust

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LULING, La. ( WGNO ) — Three people were arrested after a drug bust in the Luling area on Wednesday, Aug. 14.

The St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office reported that deputies searched a car wash at 247 Canal St. after obtaining a search warrant during a drug investigation.

Sheriff’s office officials said 52-year-old Tara Coburn allegedly did not cooperate with deputies executing the warrant, causing them to deploy the SWAT team.

Deputies said Coburn exited the establishment after a few hours, and investigators conducted a search.

During the search, detectives said they recovered nine individual bags of about 12.19 grams of “green vegetable matter,” 37 dosage units of MDMA tablets, one dosage unit of Hydrocodone and three guns.

Deputies arrested Coburn, 32-year-old Darryl Davis and 29-year-old Kenneth Baker in connection with the investigation and booked them into Nelson Coleman Correctional Center.

Coburn faces charges of resisting an officer, possession of a schedule II CDS to wit Hydrocodone and possession of a firearm in the presence of a CDS.

Davis faces charges of fugitive warrants, active attachments, resisting an officer (warrant), probation and parole violation, possession with the intent to distribute a counterfeit schedule I CDS, possession with the intent to distribute a schedule I CDS (MDMA), possession of a firearm in the presence of a CDS and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Baker faces charges of resisting an officer, possession with the intent to distribute a schedule I CDS (MDMA) and possession of a firearm in the presence of a CDS.

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