MOULTRIE, GA. — Moultrie police had a busy Monday morning, making arrests at three locations — a business and two residences — and seizing methamphetamine and marijuana.

At one location, where police say drug users made purchases and used illegal substances, officers made four arrests at a residence in the 500 block of First Street Southeast almost next door to First Presbyterian Church.

“We got some information that drug activity had been taking place,” Moultrie Police Department Sgt. Justin Lindsay said. “And possibly we could find wanted people at that place.”

When police arrived there were people outside and inside the residence, he said.

Among them was Erin Elizabeth Avery, who tried to run from officers but was stopped before she got out of the yard. Also among those arrested on drug charges was Joey Alexander Ybarra, who is believed to live there.

Ybarra, 44, was charged with possession of a drug-related object and possession of a Schedule IV controlled substance.

Police found two suspected pills of Alprazolam — the generic name for Xanax — on him, Lindsay said.

Avery, 27, 1227 Cook Road, was charged with possession of methamphetamine, obstruction of a police officer, giving false information or false name to police and possession of a drug-related object.

Also arrested at the residence were: Edwin Hernandez, 35, 1009 Hwy. 33 S., charged with possession of methamphetamine; and Marcus Channing Mancil, 29, 2014 Funston-Sale  City Road, who was charged with felony probation violation.

Mancil was one of the people with outstanding arrest warrants for whom police had information indicating that he could be at the residence, Lindsay said.

“There was a lot of coming and going from that house, that’s what surveillance showed,” he said. “It was in a residential area.”

Next, officers went to 1750 Fourth St. S.E., to another residence that was the possible site of illegal activity.

Shaun Lepaul Bonner, 40, of that address, was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and obstruction of a police officer.

“The same information, basically that drugs were being sold at that location,” Lindsay said. “When we stopped to talk with people at the residence, Bonner fled on foot into the residence and tried to destroy the marijuana he had on his person.”

Officers prevented Bonner from destroying the suspected marijuana, he said. Another man, Gary Steve Hiers, 31, 1500 Overlook Drive, also was arrested there at that time on a misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana.

To begin the day, police made an arrest at a business in the 600 block of Veterans Parkway South.

Police had a tip about a woman who would be in the area, Moultrie police Sgt. Kevin Lee said.

“We were given a description, that she would have pinkinsh/reddish hair and a clothing description,” he said. “We were told she would have a quantity of ice (crystal meth) on her person. She was found in the women’s clothing section.”

A female officer was called and a search turned up about two grams of suspected methamphetamine in Julie Lynn Fowler’s bra, Lee said. Fowler, who told police that she was on probation on a pending meth-related charge in Lowndes County, told officers that there was a small amount of marijuana in her car.

Fowler, 40, 2420 Sylvester Drive, was charged with possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana and failure to appear.