Court documents shed more light into a major drug investigation by Charleston police that centered around drug activity police said was taking place in and around an East End gas station.

Police served a search warrant about 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Par Mar station on Washington Street East. Police also served a search warrant at a home in the 300 block of Ruffner Avenue and a hotel room in downtown Charleston, Lt. Tony Hazelett said. Hazelett said drugs and guns were seized during the investigation.

Hazelett said officers were attempting to serve 20 arrest warrants that had been obtained as part of a lengthy drug investigation that stemmed from a citizen's complaint of drug dealing on the store's parking lot.

"During the investigation, narcotics were purchased on the parking lot, inside the Par Mar store, and at a nearby residence," Hazelett said.

In a news release, Hazelett said no "current employee" was arrested or involved in the investigation, but according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court, Izreal Mitchem, 25, of Huntington was an employee at the store between October and November and sold drugs while working her shift.

"SEU detectives utilized a confidential informant to purchase an amount of suspected fentanyl and suspected crack cocaine from Izreal Mitchem in exchange for U.S. currency," Detective W. McCabe wrote in the complaint. "Mitchem is an employee of this particular Par Mar and this occurred while Mitchem was working her shift. Mitchem has been present for numerous drug transactions at this location during the course of the investigation."

Mitchem was one of six arrests made Tuesday as part of the investigation. All of the suspects have been charged with possession with the intent to deliver a controlled substance. They were taken to the South Central Regional Jail following their arraignments Tuesday night and are being held on bonds of $100,000 property.

Also arrested were:

• Ciara Thomas, 37, of Charleston
• Bryant Williams, 44, of Detroit
• Marcus Holmes, 21, of Detroit
• Jemel Waters, 34, of Charleston
• Beverly Lewis, 40, of Charleston

McCabe said Thomas sold suspected methamphetamine to a confidential informant on at least two occasions with Waters, who was identified in the complaint as her "accomplice."

Waters is accused of selling suspected methamphetamine at least three times to a confidential informant.

Detectives said a confidential informant bought suspected fentanyl, crack cocaine and marijuana from Williams.

Holmes allegedly sold suspected fentanyl eight different times to a confidential informant between October and November.

Police said Lewis sold suspected fentanyl and crack cocaine to a confidential informant.

All of the alleged drug deals in the six arrests happened on the store's property, police said. Hazelett noted most of the investigation centered around drugs being sold in the parking lot area.

About 5 p.m. Tuesday, members of the Special Enforcement Unit, who had conducted the investigation, went in to lock up the business following a judge's decision to grant a temporary injunction filed by the city of Charleston. City attorney Kevin Baker filed the injunction following the raid and said the business was a public nuisance. Kanawha County Circuit Court Judge Maryclaire Akers set a permanent injunction hearing for Dec. 7.

When contacted on Tuesday for comment, a spokesperson for Par Mar said the company has none at this time.