Mother, sons arrested after $1M worth of meth found in Gwinnett home, police say

NORCROSS, Ga. — Authorities say they've busted part of a large-scale drug ring that used a mother and her two sons as couriers.

In a recent court hearing, San Juana Barerra sat next to her two sons still insisting she had no idea her sons were hauling drugs on their family outing from Texas.

“Cresencio said he brought her along because he wanted it to look like a family car so that way he wouldn't get pulled over,” T.C. Joseph, an investigator with the Gwinnett County Police Department, said.

“This was all a set up to make it look like something legitimate. It's certainly reasonable to assume these two sons are going to give their mom a piece of a fairly large pie if they get away with this,” prosecutor Bobby Wolf said.