TOWNS COUNTY, Ga. — Towns County deputies arrested a man after he was barricaded inside a garage for three hours on Monday night.
Deputies received a call regarding a 31-year-old man with a gunshot wound who was being treated at Chatuge Regional Hospital in Hiawassee.
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Investigators determined that 45-year-old Melvin Linn Masters Jr. was a suspect in this crime and deputies went to arrest him.
Deputies were serving warrants on Masters, who was barricaded inside a home on Kimsey Cove Road in Hiawassee for three hours.
At one point, Masters was distracted, which allowed a deputy to come into the home and tackle him.
During the arrest, deputies found methamphetamine laced with fentanyl and drug paraphernalia.
Masters was charged with aggravated assault, possession of methamphetamine, felony possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession and use of drug-related object, obstruction of an officer and violation of probation.
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