A two-year joint investigation into narcotics trafficking in south Mississippi by seven agencies — with help from five more — led to the arrest of seven individuals on federal drug charges. One of those arrested was a Lincoln County man.

The suspects arrested in Mississippi appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda Anderson Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi in Jackson. All were ordered held without bond until a detention hearing this week.

Donyale Jerrel Holloway, 36, of Imperial Lane between West Lincoln and Brookhaven, was one of five people charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana after the arrests Wednesday.

The four individuals are Shawanda V. Matthews, 30, Samuel Cardell Reed, 30, and Veronica Denise Thomas, 37, all of Pike County, and Ennis Cheko Montgomery, 48, of Belvidere, Illinois.

Reed was also charged with conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine along with Eugene Rodrigues Lewis, 35, and Gary Wayne Thompson, 33, both of Pike County.

These arrests are the result of a more than two-year joint investigation into narcotics trafficking in south Mississippi by the FBI Safe Streets Task Force in Hattiesburg; the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics’ McComb District; the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation; Office of the Mississippi State Auditor; Marion County Sheriff’s Office; Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office; and Hattiesburg Police Department. The U.S. Marshals Service; Mississippi Department of Corrections; Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks; McComb Police Department; and Southwest Mississippi Narcotics Task Force assisted with the arrests.

The FBI Jackson Division’s Southeast Mississippi Safe Streets Task Force in Hattiesburg is made up of special agents from the FBI and law enforcement officers from the Office of the Mississippi State Auditor, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, and Hattiesburg Police Department.