At around 1 p.m., the Kissimmee SWAT team and detectives, assisted by the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, raided houses at 1020 Hill St. and 819 Person St. They also served several arrest warrants for specific individuals associated with the undercover investigation, including an Osceola High School senior defensive tackle.

The operation, dubbed “Kissimmee Classic,” was the latest of several stings the department has conducted in the past few years to target pockets of crime.

“The Kissimmee Police Department is dedicated to ridding our community of drug activity,” Chief Fran Iwanski stated in a press release on the latest operation.

Those arrested for the sale and delivery of cocaine include: Ernest Varnado, 29, Monita Brown, 33, Jonathan Brown, 38, Jauquawn Everette, 32, Randy Davis, 58, William Bostic, 18, Fletcher Hollinger II, 39, Fletcher Hollinger III, 21, Gwen Waits, 54, and Emanuel Grant, 30.

All were Kissimmee residents and were associated with the two addresses, either because they lived there or frequented the homes often, department spokeswoman Stacie Miller said. Many were related to each other, she added.

Bostic, the Osceola High School football player, was arrested the afternoon before the team’s win over Oviedo Friday and didn't play in the game.

Several of the houses along Person, Hill and Lake streets that make up the neighborhood just east of John Young Parkway have been targeted before in operations where undercover law enforcement officers either bought drugs from the local dealers or sold them to people who came to the area looking for cocaine.

“It’s seems like we’re hitting the same places,” Miller said.

The area was included in Kissimmee Police Department’s Kissimmee Crackdown, the citywide large-scale operation that saw dozens of accused drug dealers arrested in December 2008. The house at 814 Person St. was raided in March as a follow-up.

Before that, both the Sheriff’s Office and the police department targeted the corner of Lake and Person streets, in August 2008 and October 2007, respectively. Fletcher Hollinger III was one of three arrested in the August 2008 operation. The raid the previous year involved undercover officers standing on the side of the road offering to sell cocaine to those who walked, biked or drove to the area looking for it.

Still, Miller said the department’s efforts to rid the city of drugs have made a difference, especially since the most recent nine-month investigation concluded.