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More suspects arraigned in Operation Sandy Bottom Waycross Federal Courthouse (Source: Google Maps) By Dave Miller | February 16, 2021 at 12:43 PM EST - Updated February 16 at 6:21 PM WAYCROSS, Ga. (WALB) - Operation Sandy Bottom defendants continued to be brought into federal court last Friday morning at the United States District Court of the Southern District of Georgia in Waycross. The defendants made their initial appearance in front of a federal magistrate judge for formal arraignm...

A major federal operation in Georgia sweeps up three prison guards, three Virgin Island cops are in hot water after a planeload of cocaine got caught in Miami, and more. In Miami, three current and former US Virgin Islands police officers were arrested last Tuesday after one of them landed in a charter plane loaded with 700 pounds of cocaine. Officer Shakim Mike was aboard the plane and faces drug trafficking conspiracy charges. Officers Teshawn Adams Jakelah Adolphine have also been detained a...

Operation ‘Sandy Bottom’: 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 “Operation Sandy Bott...

Updated: 2:27 PM EST January 13, 2021 DOUGLAS, Georgia — Four dozen people have been indicted in a Coffee County drug trafficking operation that targeted gang members. Three of them are correctional officers. According to a news release, the focus of Operation Sandy Bottom was the Sand Ridge neighborhood in Douglas. The indictment alleges that the ring, controlled by part of the Gangster Disciples street gang, controlled meth trafficking in South Georgia and distributed contra...

Hampton requiring appointments for most city business because of COVID-19 The city said its offices would move to appointments only for most transactions due to the increase in coronavirus cases in Hampton and the region. Author: Brian Farrell Updated: 2:54 PM EST January 12, 2021 HAMPTON, Va. — Hampton said Tuesday that city offices would require appointments for most people who have business with the city because of the increase in COVID-19 cases in Hampton a...

Be out of place, an anomaly, and theyre going to be mapping out the valleys and the rough edges and the mountains or whatever is there and trying to get a good handle on what might there be. keep in mind, very few people are expecting this to be a smooth, sandy bottom on the ocean floosh. its likely that theyre dealing with peaks and troughs and perhaps a rugged and jagged edge and all of that can make searching for this debris, this plane even more difficult, but lets emphasize one more time th...

At that time, she was a playful little girl that tossed the bottle into the water. when she was with a friend in patchogue. >> what does it say? >> be excellent to yourself. if you get this, call your number. >> reporter: a quote from "bill and teds excellent adventure" her favorite movie, which ironically is a nod to time travel. it ends up this past december, these workers were cleaning up after sandy, found the bottle in the sand, called the number and returned the bottle to mimi. >> i cant d...