Two 19-year-olds charged in separate drug arrests

Published 2:00 pm Thursday, February 21, 2019

MOULTRIE, Ga. — Police officers investigating a Sunday evening report of gunfire from a car on a Colquitt County road seized suspected methamphetamine and marijuana and several guns, including a stolen rifle.

Deputies were dispatched at about 5:34 p.m. to the County Line Road area after receiving a complaint about a possible white Trailblazer from which shots were being fired.

One stopped a white GMC Envoy driven by Kannan Dale Partain at the intersection of Millpond Road and Tucker Road.

“When the deputy came in contact with the vehicle he smelled the odor of marijuana coming from the vehicle,” said Sgt. Channing McDowell of the Moultrie-Colquitt County Drug Enforcement Team. “When asked to exit the vehicle Mr. Partain became very agitated. He was detained and placed in a patrol car.”

Partain’s juvenile brother was in the car, and after he got out of the Envoy the deputy conducted a search that turned up suspected methamphetamine and marijuana, McDowell said. At that point the officer called for McDowell’s assistance.

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“I searched the car as well,” McDowell said. “I found two meth pipes with meth residence in them, three hydrocodone pills, one aplrazolam (Xanax) pill. I also found various rounds of ammunition.”

The ammunition including those for pistols, rifles and shotguns and a 100-round magazine for an AR-15 rifle and magazines for two other rifles.

Guns found in the car included two pistols, an SKS semi-automatic rifle and a World War II-era sniper rifle, he said. An AK-47 rifle found in the car had been reported stolen in 2012 from Tift County.

“The juvenile confirmed they were on County Line Road and his brother was the one doing the shooting,” McDowell said.

Partain, 19, 812 Doc Darbyshire Road, was charged with possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana, possession of a Schedule II controlled substance, possession of a Schedule IV controlled substance and five counts possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.

Partain also faces a charge of theft by receiving stolen property in connection with the stolen rifle.

In a separate incident David Simkins, 19, 6525 Tallokas Road, was charged Tuesday with sale of marijuana and possession of marijuana.

That arrest stems from a Jan. 28 undercover purchase of suspected marijuana in the parking lot of a Colquitt County business on Veterans Parkway North, McDowell said.

“At about 8:20 p.m. a cooperating witness met with Mr. Simkins,” he said. “He purchased marijuana from Mr. Simkins with money issued by the Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office.”

When Simkins was stopped after the transaction police found more suspected marijuana in the car, McDowell said.