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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 arraignments on their charges pertaining to their suspected criminal roles in this investigation. Some defen...

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 and charged with one count each of attempting to possess with intent to distribute a controlled subst...

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 Bottom,” the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force investigation centered in the Sand Ridge n...

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 contraband in prisons. The news release says the investigation started back in 2018 when the Coffee County...