GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man in Buford for allegedly trafficking drugs and having a weapon they say he shouldn’t have.
According to the GBI, Marvin Stanley Cottrell was arrested and charged with trafficking cocaine and possession of a firearm by a felon after they executed as search warrant at a home in Buford.
When agents and deputies executed the warrant on Friday, they found about five ounces of what they suspected was cocaine, as well as a firearm.
Anyone with information about the drug activity is asked to call the GBI’s Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office at 706-348-7410.
ARDEO is a multi-agency unit covering 30 counties in North Georgia.
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