MONTICELLO, NY — Three drug arrests have been announced by Sullivan County District Attorney Jim Farrell.

Smitty Williams, 36, of Bloomingburg, NY, was arrested for selling cocaine, heroin and oxycodone to three separate individuals in November 2014 in the Town of Thompson and Town of Mamakating. He was also charged with resisting arrest because he fled from officers, but he was apprehended after a short foot pursuit.

Farrell said that Williams was arrested and indicted as a result of the New York State Police Community Narcotics Enforcement Team (CNET), which targets illegal narcotics traffickers in Sullivan County.

Williams was arraigned in Sullivan County Supreme Court on February 26, 2015, and remanded to the Sullivan County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bail. He faces up to 12 years in prison on each of six counts.

Andre Shackleford, age 43, of Brooklyn, was also arrested for drug-related charges. Farrell’s office said he is charged with possession and using drug paraphernalia. The indictment, which was returned by a Sullivan County grand jury on February 25, alleges that in October of 2014, Shackleford possesed heroin and cocaine and intended to sell the drugs. He also had a digital scale, multiple small clear plastic bags and glassine envelopes used to package individual quantities of narcotics for street distribution, two ink stamps used to brand heroin for street distribution and over $3,400 in cash.

Farrell said Shackleford was arrested as a result of an investigation by Fallsburg police and the New York State Police, and praised their continuing effort to detect and apprehend individuals who traffic in dangerous narcotics. “This was a clear example of multiple police agencies working together toward the common goal of stemming the supply of these dangerous narcotic drugs in Sullivan County,” Farrell said.

Shackleford was arraigned in Sullivan County Supreme Court on February 26, and sent to the Sullivan County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail. He faces up to 12 years in prison on each of the charges.

Matthew Pitz, 21, of Callicoon, was also arrested on a drug charge. The indictment returned by a Sullivan County grand jury on February 18 alleges that on January 15 in Monticello, Pitz was arrested with 20 glassine envelopes full of heroin, and that he also sold heroin earlier in Jeffersonville.

Farrell said that Pitz was arrested and indicted as a result of an investigation by CNET into the trafficking of heroin in and around Jeffersonville.

Pitz was arrested by Monticello police after a car he was traveling in crashed on Terry Lane and police found the narcotics in the trunk of the car. He was arraigned on the indictment in Sullivan County court and sent to jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.

Farrell said his office recommended bail in the amount of $50,000. Pitz faces up to nine years in state prison on each charge. Praising the work of the State Police CNET team, Farrell said, “CNET has made a commitment to Sullivan County and is working hard to target those individuals who seek to traffic in these dangerous narcotics in our communities and they will continue to do so.”