Three are arrested in Cherokee County on multiple drug charges.

Sheriff's Investigators executed a narcotics-related search warrant, as part of an ongoing investigation, on a Weir home just after 5:00pm yesterday. As a result of the search and investigation, detectives arrested 41-year-old Jamy Mays, 40-year-old Shylow Star Richardson and 22-year-old Elissa Sturgell. Mays is a registered drug offender having been previously convicted for crimes associated with the manufacture of methamphetamine.

She is being held in the Cherokee County Jail and faces allegations of distribution of methamphetamine and possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia. Sturgell faces charges of possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia, while Richardson was arrested on an outstanding warrant out of Wright County, Missouri for possession of methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.