Crime & Safety

Five Arrested in Hollywood Boulevard Marijuana Bust

Police accuse the five individuals with a variety of charges including marijuana possession, keeping a drug house, and child endangerment.

Iowa City police say they executed a drug search warrant Monday morning on Hollywood Boulevard and have charged five individuals in relation to a marijuana selling operation.

After searching the house at 1111 Hollywood Boulevard at 8:30 a.m., police say they found marijuana, packaging materials, drug paraphernalia, a scale and money they suspected came from marijuana sales.

According to criminal complaints, the officers on the scene felt it was clear that marijuana had been sold and used in the apartment where children also lived. The complaint stated that there was "a lot" of drugs found on the floor in baggies, as well as in a glass jar, and some of it was found in what appeared to be a child's backpack in another room.

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As a result, police charged four people who all live in the residence with crimes:

Darnell Young, 19, with keeping a drug house, a drug tax-stamp violation, felony marijuana possession, and child endangerment with no injury -- two aggravated misdemeanors and two felonies. Police say Young admitted a small amount of marijuana found near him was his, and that he had bought it in Mississippi.

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Dalesha Barton, 18, was charged with knowingly allowing drug possession in a house and child endandgerment. Police say Barton's two-year-old was present at the time of the arrest.

Devin Smith, 20, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, keeping a drug house, marijuana possession with intent to deliver and child endangerment -- three misdemeanors and a felony.

Martarius Junious, 20, was charged with felony marijuana possession, keeping a drug house, and child endangerment. Junious allegedly told the police that the marijuana was not his, but that his finger prints would be on some of the marijuana baggies because someone else gave the marijuana to him.

A fifth man, Jakari Smith, of Coralville, was also found in the bedroom of the residence with marijuana although he did not live there. He was charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession. 


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