Operation âSandy Bottomâ: Drug investigation indicts 48, including 3 prison guards Prison cells (Source: KFVS) By Dave Miller | January 13, 2021 at 3:33 PM EST - Updated January 13 at 3:33 PM
WAYCROSS, Ga. (WALB) - Nearly 50 people have been indicted in a drug trafficking investigation that targeted violent gang members distributing methamphetamine and other drugs in the Coffee County area, according to the United States Department of Justice.
Dubbed âOperation Sandy Bottom,â the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force investigation centered in the Sand Ridge neighborhood on the east side of Douglas, in an area known as âThe Bottoms,â said Bobby Christine, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia.
An Onslow County man heard his sentence read to him in a Craven County courthouse on Tuesday where the judge issued a lengthy prison term for his involvement with selling drugs.
Cyle Wesley Norris, 30, was sentenced to 9 years (112 months) after being found guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture/substance containing methamphetamine and two counts of distribution of a quantity of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine.
Norris, who became a convicted felon in 2009 after being found guilty of felony breaking and entering in Onslow, was caught selling methamphetamine to an undercover officer working with the Onslow County Sheriff s Office in Richlands on Dec. 20, 2019.
SHREVEPORT, La. A Ringgold man will spend the next 10 years in federal prison for selling drugs in his hometown area, Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander Van Hook announced Tuesday.
Hancock man sentenced to federal prison on drug charge
BANGOR A Hancock man was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to 4.5 years in federal prison for possessing with the intent to distribute 40 grams or more of a substance containing fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
U.S. District Judge Lance E. Walker also sentenced William Smeal, 34, to four years of supervised release. Smeal pleaded guilty on Jan. 21, 2020.
According to court records, on Feb. 13, 2019, law enforcement officers encountered Smeal in Ellsworth. A bag containing over 100 grams of a substance containing fentanyl was seized from his car. Smeal admitted to purchasing drugs in Massachusetts that day. A search of Smeal’s home and an additional search of his car resulted in the seizure of more than 100 additional grams of a substance containing fentanyl.