MOULTRIE, Ga. — Federal and local law enforcement officials made six arrests in recent days of Colquitt County residents accused being part of a massive meth-distribution ring.

The new arrests come a little more than a year after a roundup of 34 suspects in May 2017 of which 22 were from Colquitt County. Nearly 30 of that group have entered guilty pleas in federal court.

The six people arrested over the past few days were all turned over to federal authorities and transported to Albany. Two also face local charges.

The three men and three women each have been indicted on a charge of conspiracy to posses with intent to distribute methamphetamine, police said.

They are:

• Jamie Lowery, 42, 150 Peachtree St., Ellenton.

• Douglas Gordan Palmer Jr., 38, 582 26th Ave. S.E.

• Mary Amanda Barrett, 48.

• Matthew Lance Bridges, 40.

• Takhari Taylor, 27.

• Keyerra Green, 25.

The Moultrie-Colquitt County Drug Enforcement Team made the arrests with assistance from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, FBI and Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

The indictments for the six were handed down in mid-April, said Lt. Steve Exum, who commands the Drug Enforcement Team.

“This is the second roundup attached to the (Boris) Fuller trafficking operation,” he said, referring to the May 2017 indictments. “This is part of that original investigation. (These) are further indictments included on the same case.”

Police described Fuller as the ringleader of an operation that transported methamphetamine from the Atlanta area and distributed it in Colquitt and surrounding counties.

Fuller pleaded guilty on April 22, 2018, to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Some 16 other Colquitt County residents also pleaded guilty in 2017 and 2018, and a total of 30 defendants have pleaded guilty to charges in the case, according to federal prosecutors.

Prosecutors have not notified the media of any of the convicted individuals being sentenced. According to earlier reports those involved face from a minimum sentence of five years’ incarceration and/or fines of $250,000. Fuller and some of the others face the possibility of life sentences, a maximum fine of $10 million or both.

The original indictment under which they were sentenced accused Fuller and 27 others of conspiring to possess more than 50 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute the substance. The indictment said the conspiracy began some time before Oct. 1, 2014, and continued through April 1, 2017.

The investigation was initiated by the Colquitt County Drug Enforcement Team, which received assistance from other state and federal agencies, and lasted for more than a year up to around April 1, 2017.

At least one of the six people arrested recently — a woman with young children — has been released on bond, Exum said.