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Total of 27 accused of multi-state drug trafficking ring

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

A Quilcene woman was arrested as part of a two-state, 10-team SWAT takedown that targeted a drug ring authorities say is tied to a white supremacist prison gang. Two dozen people were arrested …

A grand jury indicted 27 men and women, including a Renton man and an Auburn man, on drug trafficking charges for involvement in the distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine.

The bust netted two-million doses of fentanyl and over 230 pounds of methamphetamine, as well as more than 225 guns.

The bust netted two-million doses of fentanyl and over 230 pounds of methamphetamine, as well as more than 225 guns.

The bust netted two-million doses of fentanyl and over 230 pounds of methamphetamine, as well as more than 225 guns.

As a solicitor in Morganton in the late 1910s, Bascom Lamar Lunsford picked up material for original songs, most notably "Mountain Dew."

View Comments "I was deputy sheriff in three Tennessee counties!" Jesse James Bailey told UNC Asheville historian Louis Silveri in 1972, talking about his brief term as sheriff of Madison County, 1920-22, during Prohibition. Sometimes, Bailey would get a good lead — for instance, a fellow might "get mad at his neighbor (and) say, Well, Ole Johns a-stilling or a-handling liquor" — and when Bailey went to investigate, the moonshiner would jump the boundary to Unicoi, Greene or Cocke county. T...