HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A Detroit man, called a major target in the Peterson Drug Trafficking Organization, was arrested Friday, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia Mike Stuart said.
Terrell Ledez Redd was picked up in Detroit. He was one of 15 defendants charged in a multi-state heroin and fentanyl distribution network that included Huntington.
On April 17, law enforcement authorities made arrests in what was called Project Huntington and Operation Saigon Sunset.
Redd will be brought back to Huntington to face the charges, Stuart said in a statement released Saturday.
“I am proud that my prosecutors have successfully fought for the detention of all the other defendants charged in this indictment and the revolving door is no more,” Stuart said. Our work continues and we have much work left to do. However, any drug thugs thinking they have escaped the net we’ve cast should be looking over their shoulder because this United States Attorney, in partnership with federal, state and local law enforcement, is willing to knock down their doors, take them into custody and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.”