The Arkansas City Police Department arrested three Ark City men early Monday morning on multiple drug-related charges after serving a warrant, according to a news release from the ACPD Tuesday.
About 12:52 a.m. Monday, Ark City police officers and Cowley County Sheriff’s Office deputies executed a search warrant at 326 N. Third St. stemming from an extensive illegal drug investigation.
Aaron Nathaniel Parga-Varquez, 19, was arrested on suspicion of two felony counts of no drug tax stamp; one felony count each of criminal use of a weapon, possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school and possession with intent to distribute marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school; and one misdemeanor count each of consumption of alcohol by a minor, possession of drug-sale and drug-use paraphernalia, and possession of marijuana.
Parga-Varquez was booked into the Cowley County Jail in Winfield on a bond of $50,000 through Cowley County District Court in Ark City.
Haiden Rain Tiger, also 19, was arrested on suspicion of three felony counts of possession of a controlled substance, as well as one misdemeanor count each of consumption of alcohol by a minor, possession of drug-use paraphernalia and possession of marijuana.
Tiger was booked into the county jail on a bond of $12,000 through Ark City district court. He remained in custody at the time of this release.
Taylor Elliot Hobson, 27, was arrested on suspicion of two felony counts of possession of a controlled substance, plus one misdemeanor count each of possession of drug-use paraphernalia and of marijuana. He also was arrested on two outstanding district court warrants for probation violation.
Hobson was booked into the county jail on a $10,000 bond through Ark City district court on the new charges and no bond on the warrants.
He remained in custody at the time of this release.
