BUTTS COUNTY, Ga. — Only Channel 2 Action News was there as investigators crashed in doors and arrested suspects in what one sheriff described as a massive drug network running from middle Georgia to metro Atlanta, moving methamphetamine, deadly fentanyl and more.
Jimmy Young Jr. is an alleged methamphetamine trafficker who daily moved enough for hundreds of doses, says Butts County Sheriff Gary Long.
“He was responsible for between seven and nine ounces of methamphetamine every day,” the sheriff said.
Channel 2 Investigative Reporter Mark Winne confronted suspects with the allegations on Channel 2 Action News at 6:00 p.m.
“Are you a meth user?” Winne asked.
“Do I look like I use meth?” Young replied.
Long says Young is one of 41 men and women now accused of being part of a network that moved meth, fentanyl, marijuana and cocaine.
The investigation was done by the Monroe and Butts County sheriff’s offices, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Clayton County Police and others.
Monroe County Sheriff Brad Freeman says the investigation started with one suspect, Brittany Gober, accused of being a mid-level methamphetamine supplier in Monroe and Butts counties.
“She was already had already bonded out on trafficking in methamphetamine and apparently she didn’t learn a lesson and just kept, like the Energizer Bunny, she just kept going, going and going,” Freeman said.
Sheriff Long said Young eventually confessed to having meth in the house.
The Butts County sheriff said investigators had already built a case on Tammy Land when a team arrived to arrest her, as was the case with most of those arrested this week. That included Jerrell Boone, whom he described as one of the network’s marijuana distributors.
Investigators said they found more than five pounds of marijuana plus cash and guns on a search warrant obtained by Clayton County police Thursday.
“For an operation like that to take place, the investigative aspect and everything that has brought us here today, it takes teamwork,” said GBI Director Chris Hosey.
Towaliga Circuit D.A. Dorothy Hull said she anticipates that all or most of the 41 suspects will face RICO charges.
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