Sheriff’s Office releases names of people involved in a heroin and weapons investigation which led to one man bailing from a car Thursday and hiding in a wooded area for five hours

Heroin, guns and bullet-proof vest seized in the case	Corey Kenney, believed by authorities to be main person in the heroin investigation
Dayna Parker. arrested in a house where heroin, guns and other drugs were found.	Dereck Meyers, man who bolted from a car on Paris Road and hit in a wooded area for five hours before he was caught on Thursday.

Eddie Martin, arrested as the driver of a car stopped in a Chalmette drug investigation.

Sheriff James Pohlmann has released the names of five people involved in a heroin and weapons investigation which led to one man bailing from a car Thursday and hiding in a wooded area for five hours before being caught.

The main artery Paris Road was closed for hours at the scene of the search, which was close to Bayou Bienvenue at the Orleans Parish line.

Sheriff Pohlmann said, “We appreciate the patience of the public inconvenienced by the closure but it was necessary as a safety precaution because the man who ran was carrying a gun he threw away and we didn’t know if he had another weapon he might use.’’
The sheriff said four people have now been arrested in the narcotics investigation and warrants of arrest were obtained for a fifth person now incarcerated in New Orleans, The suspects include the two in the car and two arrested at a house in Chalmette on Wednesday, Sheriff Pohlmann said.

Five guns, two of them stolen, and quantities of heroin, cocaine and pills were seized, along with a bullet-proof vest and several hundred dollars in cash.

Dereck Meyers, 23, of New Orleans is the man who bolted from a car on Paris Road as agents of the Special Investigations Division tried to stop the vehicle. The driver, was caught immediately as he tried to run. the sheriff said. Meyers was caught after hiding for five hours in a wooded area.

The driver was Eddie Martin, 25, of New Orleans.

Along with the gun Meyers threw down, a second gun was found in the abandoned car and it had been reported stolen..

After Meyers fled, Sheriff’s Office Head of Operations Col John Doran called out the SWAT team to participate in the search as Paris Road was closed. State Police, the Wildlife and Fisheries Department and St. Tammany Parish’s Sheriff’s Office participated, as well as Plaquemines Parish which supplied a helicopter for the search and New Orleans Police which supplied a canine.

Three of the guns, narcotics, cash and a bullet-proof vest were seized in a house on Marina Road when a search warrant executed there Wednesday and one weapon was reported stolen. All five guns recovered are being test-fired at a crime lab to see if they were used in any shootings in this area, the sheriff said.

Some 15 grams of heroin, which is just over half an ounce and worth about $1,500 on the streets, was found at the house, as well as several grams of cocaine and more than 40 tablets of the drugs oxycodone, amphetamine and ecstasy, along with the vest.

Both Meyers and Martin were booked with possession of the stolen gun in the car, with possession of seven grams of marijuana, flight from officers and possession of a firearm while possessing a controlled dangerous substance..

Martin is being held in lieu of $100,000 bond and Meyers in lieu of bond set at $75,000.

During the search at the house, the two arrested were Dayna Parker, 35, who rents the residence, and Jacoby Martin, 20, who said he lived there.

But warrants of arrest were obtained for Corey Kennedy, 35, who Maj. Chad Clark, commander of SID,
called the main person in the heroin investigation. Kennedy is being held in Orleans Parish Prison on a domestic battery arrest but Clark said the drugs found in the house were controlled by him.

Parker and Jacoby Martin were both booked with possession to distribute heroin, cocaine and pills as well as illegal possession of the body armor. She was also booked with possession of the stolen firearm that was found.

Parker and Jacoby Martin are being held on a $200,000 bond.

Investigators also have learned that in July Parker and Kennedy were riding in a vehicle in New Orleans when someone shot out their back window, possibly over drug activities.

The arrest warrants for Kennedy charge him with the distribution charges, the stolen gun charge and the body armor charge.

Based on information obtained, authorities believe Kennedy had asked someone to go to the home on Marina Road to look for items hidden there.

Agents then watched the home and saw Martin and Meyers arrive, go inside and leave, then tried to stop them on Paris Road, with them attempting to escape and then bailing out of the vehicle, the sheriff said.