Search Warrant At Day Care Leads To Drug and Firearms Arrest

Incident Number:  50-24-1353

Date/Time: Thursday, January 11th, 2023 at 12:20 p.m.

Location: The Little Peoples LFCC 2, 118 Roosevelt Avenue, Dover, DE

Contact:   Dover Police Department Public Information Officer
Master Corporal Ryan Schmid   Email: Ryan.Schmid@cj.state.de.us

Narrative: The Dover Police Department has arrested Cameron Christmas, 33, and Jessica Cooper, 29, both of Dover, on drug and firearm charges following a search warrant Thursday afternoon. The Dover Police Department’s Drug’s Vice and Organized Crime Unit was conducting a drug investigation on 118 Roosevelt Avenue Dover, DE. Through this investigation it was determined that this residence was being operated as a daycare, The Little Peoples LFCC 2. Detectives with the Drugs, Vice and Organized Crime Unit obtained a search warrant for the daycare and executed it on 1/11/2024 at 12:20 p.m.. Christmas and Cooper were taken into custody without incident. Detectives located 93.1 grams of cocaine, 26.4 grams of crack, 302 bags of heroin, 2 handguns, and $32,262. Christmas and Cooper were transported to Dover Police Department where they were processed and arraigned. 

Four children were in the day care at the time of the search warrant and they were turned over to their guardians.

Christmas was committed to SCI no $93,100 cash bail on the following charges:
-Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance in Tier 3 Quantity (2x)
-Possession of a Controlled Substance in a Tier 3 Quantity (2x)
-Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance in Tier 2 Quantity 
-Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance
-Possession of a Controlled Substance in a Tier 2 Quantity
-Possession of a Firearm or Ammunition by a Person Prohibited (2x)
-Endangering the Welfare of a Child (4x)
-Conspiracy Second Degree
-Possession of Drug Paraphernalia

Cooper was committed to BWCI on $49,700 secured bond on the following charges
-Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance in Tier 3 Quantity 
-Possession of a Controlled Substance in a Tier 3 Quantity 
-Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance in Tier 2 Quantity 
-Possession of a Controlled Substance in a Tier 2 Quantity
-Possession of a Firearm or Ammunition by a Person Prohibited (2x)
-Endangering the Welfare of a Child (4x)
-Conspiracy Second Degree
-Possession of a Controlled Substance
-Possession of Drug Paraphernalia