By Pat Culverhouse

Springhill police detectives have arrested six individuals, including one on outstanding warrants for three distribution charges, after uncovering a quantity of illegal narcotics inside a Springhill residence.

Springhill Chief of Police Will Lynd said the five in custody are:

• Brando Ferguson, a 56-year-old living in the 200 block of 3rd. St. SE in Springhill. He is charged on an active warrant with two counts of distribution of CDS Sch. IV and one count of distribution of CDS Sch. II (methamphetamines).

He is also charged with one count possession of CDS Sch. II (methamphetamines) and one count possession of synthetic marijuana. Brando’s total bond is set at $66,000.

• Kentavious Layton, 27, who listed an address in Cullen, is charged with two counts of possession of synthetic marijuana and one count of possession of CDS Sch. II (methamphetamines). Total bond has been set at $7,000.

• Troy Courtney, 43, a resident of Camelot Dr. in Springhill, is charged with two counts possession of synthetic marijuana and one count possession of CDS Sch. II (methamphetamines). His total bond is set at $7,000.

• Robert McKinney Dick, 29, a resident of the 200 block 3rd St. SE, Springhill, faces two counts of possession CDS Sch. II (methamphetamines) and possession synthetic marijuana. No bond has been set.

• Lawrence Deundre Miller, 41, who lists a residence in the 100 block of Bradley St. in Cullen. Miller is charged with two counts of possession of synthetic marijuana, one count possession of CDS Sch.II (methamphetamines) and one count of public intimidation/retaliation. Miller is facing a total bond of $9,500.

• LaShondra Patterson, 46, who lives in the 200 block of Shed Rd. in Bossier City, was booked for possession of CDS Sch. II (methamphetamines) and possession synthetic marijuana. Bond has not been set.

Lynd said investigators enforced a search warrant in the 200 block of 3rd. St. SE Tuesday (Oct. 1) and located Dick in the rear of the residence. He reportedly was searched and a baggie of methamphetamines was found in his pocket. Officers reportedly found another baggie of methamphetamines in a dresser drawer in a bedroom.

Ferguson, the subject of the distribution warrants, was outside the residence when officers approached.

Patterson, Miller and Courtney reportedly were seated on a sofa in the front room of the residence. Two bags of synthetic marijuana were discovered on a coffee table in the living room, Lynd said. 

While he was in custody in the Springhill city jail, Miller allegedly threatened another inmate with bodily harm if he did not assume the charges Miller was facing.

This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.