Sheriff Gary Parsons said on January 7, 2023 Agents with the Southwest Virginia Drug Task Force along with Deputies of the Lee County Sheriff's Office conducted an operation at a car wash in Jonesville.
During the operation four ounces of Methamphetamine with a street value of $5000 was seized along with three handguns and an AR style rifle. During the arrest the male subject was non-compliant with Officers and force had to be used to place subject in custody.
Arrested were Oral Douglas Engle age 54 of 2607 S Memorial Drive Greenville North Carolina and Jennifer Janson age 54 of 6607 Hearne Road Apartment 92 Cincinnati Ohio.
Both suspects were charged with Distribution of a Schedule 2 Narcotic, conspiracy, transporting more than one ounce of a schedule 2 Narcotic into the Commonwealth of Virginia, and being in Possession of a firearm while being in possession of a schedule 2 narcotic.
Both subjects are being held at the Duffield Regional Jail with no bond.
