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JEFFERSON CITY -- A multi-agency drug sweep has netted more than two dozen arrests throughout mid-Missouri, all in the fight against heroin.

For the past three weeks, the Mustang Drug Task Force, the Jefferson City Police Department and the Cole County Sheriff’s Department have worked together to make the arrests.  Officers targeted heroin dealers and their operations, including Matthew White, who is suspected to be the supplier in many heroin overdoses in the Capitol City.  When law enforcement officials searched his house on Katy Lane in Cole County, they found an ounce of raw heroin, with an estimated street value of $7,500 to $10,000, two handguns and things used to package and distribute heroin.

Of the 26 arrests, 19 suspects face charges of distribution of a controlled substance.  The other seven face charges related to possessing drugs.

Here is a list of the people arrested for distribution of a controlled substance:

1. Matthew White, 27, Jefferson City
2. Cory Lammers, 23, Jefferson City
3. Richard Kish, 26, Jefferson City
4. Dameon Bonnot, 20, Jefferson City
5. Jason Isom, 32, Jefferson City
6. Joshua Wilson, 27, Jefferson City
7. Mario Thomas, 35, Jefferson City
8. Antoine Davis, 33, Jefferson City
9. Steven Brantner, 42, Jefferson City
10. Malcolm Rodgers, 52, Jefferson City
11. Jeremy Tisdel Sr, 39, Jefferson City
12. Damion Keys, 27, Jefferson City
13. Hannah Winfrey, 21, Jefferson City
14. Travis Jaegers, 26, Jefferson City
15. Brittany Schaeffer, 21, Jefferson City
16. Michael Humphrey, 27, Columbia
17. Keith Becker, 53, Jefferson City
18. Timothy Johnson, 36, Jefferson City
19. Diane Daniels, 54, Jefferson City