MEDIA RELEASE
Date: December 3, 2010
Time: 12:15 PM
On December 2, 2010 Agent Jay Bolton arrested Melvin Alday and Walter Burns in the Chiefland area. In August 2010 Agent Jay Bolton utilized a confidential source and purchased 19.1 grams of vicodin. The listed threshold for trafficking in vicodin is 4 grams. Alday, 76 years of age was arrested and transported to the Levy County Jail and has a $ 50,000 bond.
In an unrelated drug deal Walter Burns was arrested for possession of cocaine and sale of cocaine. Burns sold .6 grams of cocaine to a confidential source for $ 70.00. Burns is a convicted felon for drug related offenses. Burns was lodged into the Levy County Jail and has a $ 30,000 bond.
Defendant:
Melvin Alday
7951 NW 147 Place
Chiefland, Fl.
W/M, 01/01/34
Walter Alexander Burns
2830 NW 31 Ave
Gainesville, Fl
B/M, 03/22/71
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Major Evan Sullivan
Levy County Sheriff's Office
FBI-National Academy 183rd Session
Office: 352-486-5446
Cell: 352-577-4218