Authorities Searching for Major Drug Trafficker in South Louisiana

The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Department is actively searching for a major drug trafficker in the Baton Rouge area.

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Clifton Earl's two daughters, girlfriend, and friend were arrested after seven search warrants were executed on Friday. WAFB reported that eight different types of drugs, including over three thousand lethal doses of fentanyl.

After several months of investigation, Casey Rayborn-Hicks, an East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office spokesperson, believes they may have enough evidence to convict everyone involved and sentence them to life.

"This investigation was months of them doing surveillance of these locations that you see for the search warrants, so they spent months watching them, seeing how they are storing these drugs, distributing these drugs, as well as storing the money that they gained from selling these drugs."

According to deputies, when they arrived at the Plank Road residence, Earl was already gone. Authorities believe he could be in the North Baton Rouge or Ascension area based on what they discovered during their multiple search warrants.

"Clifton Earl was on federal probation. He had the house in North Baton Rouge where they were storing and distributing the drugs. He also had a house in Ascension, where he was keeping the money, and he had his two daughters that were working with him."

Last fall, one of the suspects already arrested, 18-year-old Keishira Lindsey, was caught trying to sell opiates on Glen Oaks High School's campus.

This investigation is one of many that will hopefully save thousands of peoples lives, “Our narcotics division along with our scat team and our gang intelligence unit, they work around the clock to try and get these deadly drugs off the street and on average in a year, they seize about enough fentanyl to kill a full tiger stadium."

Anyone with information about this investigation or the whereabouts of Clifton Earl is urged to contact the sheriff’s office or Capital Region Crime Stoppers at (225) 344-7867.

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