ST. LUCIE COUNTY \u2013 A total of seven adults and three juveniles, along with confiscation of three firearms, have been made as of June 1 in Operation Summer Heat, a collaborative effort with St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office; Fort Pierce Police; FBI; and the Drug Enforcement Administration.<\/p>\n
The program is a crime suppression initiative focused on reducing violent crime; targeting gang activity; removing illegal firearms; and combating narcotics activity throughout the community.<\/p>\n
On Day 2, detectives and officers arrested:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Karon Wade, 25, of Fort Pierce, on an outstanding warrant for fleeing and eluding with disregard for the safety of persons or property and reckless driving causing damage to persons or property.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Michael Apolaro, 38, of Fort Pierce, charged with possession of cocaine; possession of a controlled substance; and possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n
On Day 3, law enforcement presence combined with proactive traffic enforcement efforts resulted in additional arrests and firearm-related investigations:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Tonazj Meckye Alexander, 19, of Fort Pierce, charged with carrying a concealed firearm.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Shane Anthony Cole, 36, of Fort Pierce, an outstanding felony warrant for criminal use of personal identification and first-degree petit theft.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Two juveniles were arrested on firearm-related charges.<\/p>\n
Since the program started, eight firearms, including an illegal machine gun conversion device and an AR-15 style pistol with altered serial numbers, have been recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY \u2013 A total of seven adults and three juveniles, along with confiscation of three firearms,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-292166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}