Continued Law Enforcement Cooperation Results in Another Arrest in Fight Against Fentanyl

An ongoing cooperative investigation combatting fentanyl has resulted in additional arrest of a Metro Area drug dealer.

On Friday February 23, 2024, Rankin County Deputies along with Madison Police Department Investigators and Flowood Police Officers working with and supported by the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics made a controlled purchase of 30 dosage units of MDMA/Ecstasy and one ounce of marijuana from D’Allen Tyree WASHINGTON in a parking lot in the City of Flowood. After a short foot pursuit WASHINGTON was taken into custody. WASHINGTON was transported to the Rankin County Jail and was booked on the charges of Sale of MDMA, Sale of Marijuana, Possession of Marijuana and Resisting Arrest.

Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Agents will submit all evidence to the Mississippi State Crime Lab for testing.

Rankin County District Attorney Bubba Bramlett and his staff will bring D’Allen Tyree WASHINGTON before Rankin County Court Judge David Morrow for an Initial Appearance.

 D’Allen Tyree WASHINGTON has an additional Sale of Controlled Substance charge that he will be indicted on. D’Allen Tyree WASHINGTON is currently on probation for Armed Robbery. The Mississippi Department of Corrections has been contacted and the proper steps are being taken to violate his probation.

D'Allen Washington, pled guilty in 2018 to accessory after the fact to kidnapping Kingston Frazier and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The ongoing fentanyl investigation revealed that there is a very high probability D’Allen Tyree WASHINGTON has a direct ties to a fentanyl overdose death in Rankin County.

 Our hope and desire is that the cases being made in this cooperative investigation will result in a decline in the availability of fentanyl based drugs which in turn will lower overdose deaths in the metro area.