SHERIFF'S OFFICER, FRIEND BOOKED ON DRUG COUNTS

A Fresno County Sheriff's Department community-service officer and another
man have been arrested on drug charges stemming from a six-week
investigation into the sales of drugs, Sheriff Richard Pierce announced
Wednesday.

Alfred Lynord Mays, 37, an officer assigned to the department's
crime-prevention program, and Daman Lamont Andrews, 27, were taken into
custody Tuesday afternoon at their home in the 300 block of West Roy Avenue
in Fresno.

Mays, who was arrested on two counts of sales of narcotics, was placed
immediately on administrative leave and booked into the Fresno County Jail.

Mays has been a community-service officer for 61/2 years, said Deputy Dan
Cervantes, a sheriff's department spokesman.

Andrews was booked on five counts of sales of narcotics and probation
violation.

The arrests were made by the department's narcotics investigators, assisted
by the SWAT team, after a search warrant was served at the suspects' home.

Another man, Miguel Victor Beltran, 24, of Fresno was arrested on an
outstanding warrant charging him with child neglect, according to deputies.

The investigation is continuing.