Three arrested in pot bust

Three Melrose women were arrested early Sunday morning when Curry County Sheriff’s deputies serving a search warrant discovered more than half a pound of marijuana, according to a Sheriff’s Office press release.

Carey Sumner, 28, Chantille Woods, 37, and Dianna Points, 59, were released later in the day on $6,000 bonds, according to jail officials.

Phone listings for the three women could not be located.

The warrant served on a home at 425 Eighth Street in Melrose was part of a narcotics investigation conducted by the sheriff’s department, according to the release.

Officers from Roosevelt County, the Melrose Police Department and the Region Five Drug Task Force collaborated in executing the warrant, the release said.

Officers seized 9.7 ounces of marijuana, weighing scales, distribution packaging, paraphernalia and $7,000, the release said.