Additional Arrests made in Operation Avalanche

The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office announces two additional arrests in “Operation Avalanche.” This investigation over the past several months has been focused on the trafficking and distribution of methamphetamine into Oconee County with destinations reaching other parts of the Upstate and the southeast. As a result of the investigation, Narcotics Agents have determined that more than 2,000 pounds of methamphetamine made its way through Oconee County during a six month time period. Last Thursday, agents from the Narcotics Unit along with investigators from the Criminal Investigations Division, the PACE team, the SWAT team and the Uniform Patrol Division along with agents from the Drug Enforcement Agency executed four high risk search warrants at four separate locations to search for individuals that have active arrest warrants pertaining to the investigation. As a result of the investigation and the execution of the search warrants last week, officers seized firearms, cash and an additional two pounds of narcotics. Three individuals with warrants directly tying them to the investigation were arrested last Thursday while five others were arrested as a result of the execution of the search warrants. These two most recent arrests brings the total number of individuals arrested as part of this operation to ten. The two suspects arrested were 48-year-old Jerry Scott Gibson of Seneca for conspiracy to traffic in methamphetamine and 33-year-old Ricky Lee Addis, Jr. of Seneca for trafficking in methamphetamine. The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is also seeking the public’s help in locating 30-year-old Amy Deanna Cobb and 50-year-old Mickey Edward Cox on outstanding arrest warrants related to the investigation. If you have information on the whereabouts of either Amy Deanna Cobb or Mickey Edward Cox, you are asked to call Crimestoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC. You can also contact the Narcotics Hotline at the Sheriff’s Office at 864-638-4122.