DeKalb County Criminal Defense Law Blog

An Atlanta, Georgia man was arrested for his alleged role as a drug courier in Boone, North Carolina, as part of a sting operation between the Boone Police Department and the Ashe County Sheriff's Office. The man has been arrested for drug-related crimes in connection with this investigation and is currently being held on a $75,000 bond.

The investigation allegedly uncovered information that a trafficker from Atlanta was scheduled to make a large delivery of methamphetamines to a location in Boone. Officers were placed in covert undercover operational positions to intercept the shipment with the help of the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security. The operation also utilized a K-9 unit supplied by the Boone Police. The dog alerted officers to the presence of drugs inside a vehicle, and about .5 pounds of crystal meth was recovered, with a street value of approximately $22,000. The alleged trafficker was charged with two counts of trafficking methamphetamines.

A 40-year-old Social Circle man was arrested on child pornography charges after images were allegedly found on his computer. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation allegedly tracked the images to the accused man's computer during an investigation of child sex crimes on information received from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The information the police were given stated that an individual in Georgia was distributing child pornography via the internet. The GBI allegedly used the man's IP address to determine the location of the distribution site and secured a warrant to search the man's home and computer activity.

The search warrant was obtained through the Internet Crimes Against Children or ICAC Task Force. The GBI Athens office, Social Circle Police Department, Monroe Police Department and the federal bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were also involved in executing the warrant.

A 27-year-old Georgia man is facing numerous charges related to an accident in which his SUV allegedly struck another vehicle and killed two people. He may be guilty of drug-related crimes from a sting operation that allegedly uncovered cocaine in his hotel room as well as charges of hit-and-run and two counts of vehicular homicide.

Police say that they were conducting a sweep of the neighborhood when they found cocaine in the suspect's hotel room. He allegedly rammed a squad car and fled in a panic in his vehicle. Police later discovered that the suspect had allegedly struck a car that had six occupants. Two of them, a 57-year-old grandmother and her 3-year-old granddaughter, were pronounced dead at the scene, and four others were taken to the hospital with injuries. The driver of the car, who is 17 years old, has multiple serious injuries, including a ruptured spleen.

A 22-year-old man suspected of committing a hit-and-run that caused critical injuries to a pedestrian has surrendered to authorities. The suspected has been charged with drunk driving, leaving the scene, open container, reckless driving and failure to maintain proper lane in the accident.

The victim, a 19-year-old girl, remains in critical condition in a coma. The suspect surrendered after a two-week manhunt for the driver accused of causing the crash. The accident occurred when the young woman, who is from Woodstock, was walking on the grassy verge of Oak Street with a friend. She was visiting Athens for a friend's birthday. A pickup truck struck her from behind, and then sped off. The truck was found abandoned at an apartment complex on Appleby Drive with a liquor bottle and empty beer cans inside.