NEWS RELEASE
Alamance County Sheriff’s Office
109 South Maple Street Graham, NC 27253

Office: (336)570-6300

Fax: (336)227-0614

Operation Summer Heat
July 28,2020
Mebane, NCOn Tuesday, July 28, 2020, members from the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office, Mebane Police
Department and State Bureau of Investigation conducted ‘Operation Summer Heat’.
The operation is an ongoing effort to identify and arrest those individuals involved in prostitution
and human trafficking. During the day long operation, 21 people were arrested for soliciting
prostitution and drug related charges.
Investigators seized U.S. currency and multiple electronic devices that contained evidence and
protentional data that could lead to other arrest.

Defendants:
David Louis Abels W/M/60
Chapel Hill, NC-Chatham County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise
Curran Michael Blackwell W/M/29
Wake Forest, NC-Wake County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise
Cameron G. Burleson W/M/55
Mebane, NC-Alamance County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise
Gordon Keith Burton W/M/57
Pittsboro, NC-Chatham County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise

 Brijeshkumar Parbhubhai Chauhan I/M/38
Clinton, NC-Sampson County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise
Ronnie Faucette W/M/42
Henderson, NC-Vance County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise
Stephen Francis Forget W/M/54
Morrisville, NC-Wake County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise
Tyson Lamar Garner B/M/32
Burlington, NC-Alamance County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- $500.00 secured
Lewis Hendricks W/M/73
Chapel Hill, NC-Chatham County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise
Eli Boyd Howle Jr. W/M/49
Browns Summit, NC-Guilford County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise
Brandon William Johnson B/M/26
Greensboro, NC-Guilford County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise
Brandon Eric Life B/M/27
Raleigh, NC-Wake County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise
Landon Keith McDaniel W/M/38
New London, NC-Stanly County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
1ct: Felony Possession Methamphetamine
1ct: Misdemeanor Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
- $5,000.00 unsecured bond

 Mark Christopher Murchison Sr. W/M/49
Siler City, NC-Chatham County, NC
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise
Tyree Austin Pettiford B/M/22
Roxboro, NC-Person County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- $500.00 unsecured bond
Bernis Clester Spain II B/M/41
Raleigh, NC-Wake County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
1ct: Felony Possession with Intent to Sell/Deliver Schedule I Control Substance
(Heroine)
- $5,000.00 secured bond
McKinley Thorpe Jr. B/M/40
Roxboro, NC-Person County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise
Jason Vaneyk W/M/45
Asheboro, NC-Randolph County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise
Earl Wallace B/M/41
Burlington, NC-Alamance County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
1ct: Felony Possession with Intent to Sell / Deliver Marijuana
- $5,000.00 unsecured bond
Edward lee Williamson W/M/53
Rougemont, NC-Durham County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- $500.00 unsecured bond
Dwight Leon Young B/M/43
Graham, NC-Alamance County
Charge(s): 1ct: Misdemeanor Solicit Prostitution
- Written Promise