Marathon man arrested after lengthy investigation

A Marathon man was booked into jail today on numerous drug related charges after undercover operatives purchased illegal substances from him on four different occasions.

Since December of 2009, operatives working for the Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Division purchased Percocet pills three times and arranged to purchase powdered cocaine once from 47 year old John Lee Hayes. Hayes sold 58 Percocet pills on three different occasions. He then agreed to sell 1.5 ounces of cocaine; he showed up at the meeting place without the drugs and said he needed the money first before he could pick up the cocaine. He was then arrested.

Hayes was charged with three counts of Drug Trafficking, with conspiracy to commit a felony, use of a two way communications device to facilitate a felony (he used a cell phone to facilitate all of the drug crimes) and with driving with his license suspended.