For the past several months, law enforcement agencies have been following up on information pertaining to a subject who was dealing large quantities of narcotics in the Burlington area.
On Thursday the Southeast Iowa Narcotics Task Force and the Iowa Department of Narcotics Enforcement (DNE), along with the Burlington Police Department, the Henry County Sheriff’s Office, and the Iowa State Patrol Tactical Unit executed a search warrant at 646 Higbee Street in Burlington, Iowa.
They arrested 51-year-old Andre Emanuel Sanders of Burlington on multiple Drug-related charges including:
– Possession with Intent to Deliver Methamphetamine a Class B Felony
– Possession with Intent to Deliver Marijuana a Class D Felony
– Possession of a Firearm by a Felon a Class D Felony
– Unlawful Possession of an Offensive Weapon a Class D Felony
– Sanders was additionally charged with six (6) Des Moines County Warrants including but not limited to Possession of a Firearm by a Felon a Class D Felony.
Sanders is being held at the Des Moines County jail on no bond pending a court appearance.
This investigation is ongoing and additional arrests are expected.
