Search Warrant Leads to Arrest

TYLER – A Tyler man has been arrested on a variety of charges after officers executed a narcotics search warrant at 1219 East Locust Street. Taken into custody was Jerry Lewis Barrett, 56. When officers entered the house they found a quantity of crack cocaine, prescription pills, a short-barrel firearm, and evidence of bootlegging. Barrett as booked into the Smith County Jail on charges of possession of a controlled substance in a drug free zone, possession of a prohibited weapon, and bootlegging.