"I never used to have to lock my house, take my keys out of my car anything," said a man who does not want to be identfied.

He has lived in this neighborhood in Starke for 15 years. A place where there wasn't any drug activity,  but it's been changing the last couple months.

 

"We get twice, three times the traffic we use to get," said a man who does not want to be identified.

 

A trailer home next to the Dodge dealership was the first house that the drug task force busted. It was a four month investigation called Operation Clean Sweep. At the home they found lots of drugs and guns.

"The amount of cocaine we found in the first house was about 16 ounces, half a kilo. That's not common for a street level dealer to have. That's usually a mid level dealer who supplies the street level dealers," said Sgt. Tommy Sapp.
 

He told us they waited a couple days and then hit the next house. There they found more cocaine, marijuana and stolen property.

 

"During the second search warrant we did we found a small dog locked inside of a car. his ribs were showing. He was very malnourished," said Sapp.

 

There were 94 marijuana plants in the third house, along with more guns.
Sapp said the street value of all the cocaine they confiscated during the busts was about $50,000 and the marijuana plants were worth about $94,000.

 

Operation Clean Sweep put 15 people behind bars. A total of fourteen men and one woman.

Four men are still on the loose.

Bradford County Sheriff Gordon Smith told us how the whole operation came together.

"These are people who live with each other their whole life in this community that started telling on each other and it was all about saving themselves," said Smith.