MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — Police arrested 18 people in east Skagit County last week during a joint law enforcement operation.

A team of Skagit County sheriff’s deputies and Mount Vernon police officers, known as The Special Operations Division, partnered with the state Department of Corrections to arrest what the Sheriff’s Office called some of the county’s “most harmful” offenders.

According to the Skagit Valley Herald, five of the offenders were booked into the Skagit County jail and the remaining 13 were taken into custody by the Department of Corrections.

Those arrested were wanted for a variety of crimes, including assault, burglary, and theft.