Laverne, Oklahoma -- It's a drug bust for the record books.
Months of investigating came to an end Wednesday morning in Laverne as the SWAT Team moved in.
In one fell swoop, fifty armed officers moved in.
Nine felony arrest warrants for eight men and one woman, all charged with distributing meth.
"I'm very happy I've wanted this for a long time," says Harper County Sheriff Marty Drew.
They're calling it the biggest drug bust in Harper County history and for Sheriff Drew it couldn't come at a better time. For five years now he's been building his case. But the true break came about a month ago when confidential informants started making controlled buys, one gram at a time.
"They're already established with these people and what we do is get those people to make those purchases for us," says Tim Landess of the Oklahoma District 1 Narcotics Task Force.
At a hundred bucks a gram, Landess says fifty-one year old Vincent Friis was distributing up to fifteen grams a week out of his cave.
"He had a sign on his front garage door that said "The Cave." People referred to him as "The Caveman." Therefore we named it, Operation Caveman," says Landess.
Across the street, a church, the next block down another church and the towns school.
"Distributing within two thousand feet of a school or a church makes it a felony," says Sheriff Drew.
"It's disturbing because you know, we realize it's here now," says Jordan Lauffer the Youth Pastor of the First Baptist Church.
Within hours of the raid, eight of the nine had been arrested.
While the town, looked in awe.
"Obviously we're not quite as safe as we think," says Lauffer.
"Long ways from done. It'll slow the meth down in Harper County, but we're a long ways from being done," says Sheriff Drew.
The school was shut down for about twenty minutes while the search warrants were executed.
One suspect is still on the loose.