ELMORE COUNTY, AL (WSFA) - In the early hours of Thursday morning, the FBI, Central Alabama Drug Task Force, Elmore County Sheriff's Office, USMS and DEA executed the second phase of a year-old drug operation that ended with the arrest of 9 people.

According to the Elmore County Sheriff's Office, this is the second phase of the operation carried out in May 2012.

A federal grand jury handed down indictments on 14 people for drug and weapons charges back in December. Today's operation focused on capturing the 10 individuals that were not already in police custody.

As of 10 a.m. nine of those 10 people have been captured.

Authorities say the 10th individual, Carlos Harris of Wetumpka, is still on the run.

Montgomery, AL – Mary and Christian Young and Octavious Reeves were indicted by a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama on a variety of charges stemming from an identity theft and tax fraud conspiracy, announced George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The alleged conspirators were charged in a 31-count indictment that was returned on December 18, 2012, and unsealed today.

Mary and Christian Young and Octavious Reeves, all of Elmore County, Ala., were charged with conspiring to defraud the United States, along with access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.  Mary Young was also charged with several counts of wire fraud. According to the indictment, the defendants’ conspiracy lasted from January 2012 through June 2012 and involved using stolen identities to file tax returns claiming fraudulent refunds. 

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - The Montgomery man convicted in the murder of the "Cajun Lady" will spend the rest of his life in prison.

Authorities say Navus Jennings has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder and arson connected with the March 28, 2011 death of Deatsville resident Julie Ann Nelson.

Court proceedings proved Jennings killed Nelson at his trailer, then dumped the body next to a trash bin behind his place of employment on Lemon Street.

Authorities say that to cover up the bloody crime scene, Jennings burned the trailer less than 12 hours after the body was discovered.

Nelson was known as the "Cajun Lady" after she moved to Alabama from Louisiana more than 15 years ago to take care of her parents, yet she kept her accent.

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