Forty-eight people in five southwest Mississippi counties were arrested on drug charges Thursday and Friday following an eight-month joint drug investigation by the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, Monticello Police Department and Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department, according to a press release.

Federal, state and local law enforcement officers served two search warrants and arrest warrants for the suspects in Lawrence, Lincoln, Walthall, Jefferson Davis, Pike and Copiah counties, though most face charges for selling drugs in Lawrence County, MBN Director John Dowdy said in the release.

Drugs found during the investigation include 423 dosage units of hydrocodone, 107 dosage units of oxycodone, 135 grams of methamphetamine, 19 grams of crack cocaine and eight grams of cocaine powder, the release said.

Suspects arrested Thursday were former Lawrence County jailer Renee Simpson; Kenneth Peyton, Monticello; Keisha Thomas Jackson, Monticello; Clayton Howard Humphrey, Monticello; Chadwick Nelson Oatis, Silver Creek; Danny Chapman, Monticello; Craig Longino, Bogue Chitto ; Taylor McPhail, Sontag; Haley Wallace, Monticello; Matthew Johnson, Monticello; Charles Ray Daggins, Monticello; Jamie Easterling, Jayess; Jeremy Morgan, Monticello; Kevin Wallace, MDOC; Craig Rutland, Monticello; Kelly Mamerow, MDOC; Fred Earl Magee, Oakvale; Regina Evans, Monticello; Jessica Purvis; Demetrius Diggs, Prentiss; Shacorey Pittman, New Hebron; Charli Marie Hensley, Monticello; Lendell Keon Collins, Monticello; Gaille Burris, Silver Creek; Lenora Evans, New Hebron; Frederick Harris; Rose Mary Nichols, Monticello; Renee Simpson, Monticello; Veronica Johnson, Prentiss; Sandra Ward, Silver Creek; Christie Walker, Prentiss; Tina Buckley, Sontag; Kaye L Hargett, Prentiss; Ozie Longino, Ester McCullum, Monticello; Carsie Lewis, Monticello; Vicki Anderson, Prentiss; Frankey Oatis, Prentiss; Lyndon Wayne Johnson; Monticello; Willie Earl Bridges, Monticello; Howard Herrion Jr., Jayess; Kenneth Goode, Prentiss; Frank Barr, Sontag Gerald Lee Toler, Monticello; Gregory Warner, Prentiss; Daryl Lamont Peyton, Jayess; Derek Martin, Dexture Maye and Larry Longino, Sontag.

Suspects being sought, authorities said, include Kimberly Westmoreland, Jayess; Jamie Bozeman, Monticello; Cntonieo Courtney, Monticello; Peggy Sue Courtney, Monticello; Danny Powell, Prentiss; Kenterio Smith; Silver Creek; Jeffery Holloway, Monticello; Shelby Smith, Monticello; Kristie Tanner, Maurice Warner, Anthony Johnson, Monticello; Ricki Polk Dale, Monticello; John William Thompson Jr., Monticello; Booker Eley, Monticello; April Bridges, Silver Creek; Demetri Bridges, Monticello and Travis Barnes, Monticello.

Assisting the MBN were the Mississippi Department of Corrections, Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, Mississippi Alcoholic Beverage Control, Mississippi Highway Patrol, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Marshals Service, as well as the Monticello Police Department, and the sheriff departments in Lawrence County, Jefferson Davis County, Copiah County, Walthall County and Lincoln County.