BATON ROUGE - Deputies announced that nine people were arrested in two separate drug dealing investigations in East Baton Rouge Parish.

The East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office said both investigations started in September.

In one case, deputies were searching for alleged drug dealer Javonta Harris, who they reported making controlled buys of crystal meth from his home along Granite Drive.

Deputies conducted a search of his home and found 6.6 grams of fentanyl, 29 grams of crack, .7 grams of meth. 11 ounces of marijuana, 169 Xanax polls, 71 MDMA pills, five bottles of Promethazine syrup, drug paraphernalia, two guns and more than $9,000 in cash.

Harris and Louis brown were arrested Monday.

Also during September, EBRSO was contacted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosiv

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