Search warrant, traffic stops lead to multiple drug arrests

Published 5:18 pm Tuesday, May 28, 2019

MOULTRIE, Ga. — Moultrie and Colquitt County law enforcement officers made several drug-related arrests over the weekend. One incident was based on a search warrant, but others resulted from traffic stops.

Sheriff’s Office

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• The Colquitt County Special Response Team and Drug Enforcement Team served a search warrant Friday on 19 Seventh St. N.W.

Tim Edwards, 447 Mulberry St., and Michael Debruce, 133 Maple St., were charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of drug-related objects and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.

• Corey Lee Demick, of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., was charged Friday with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, no driver’s license and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

A deputy working radar on Old Doerun Road said he clocked Demick’s Hyundai going 79 in the 55 mile an hour zone. He pulled it over and arrested Demick on the driver’s license charge. The vehicle was searched prior to being towed, and a semi-automatic pistol and a bag of a green, leafy substance were found.

• Gladstone Bernard Anthony Chapman, of Jacksonville, Fla., was charged Saturday with failure to maintain lane and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute.

A deputy said he saw Chapman’s Nissan Sentra cross the center line on Highway 37 East about 1:42 a.m. Saturday. He made a traffic stop as the car turned onto Veterans Parkway, and when he approached the car he smelled a strong odor of marijuana, his report said.

Moultrie Police

• Nicholas Pero, 29, 401 First Ave. S.E., was charged Thursday with possession of methamphetamine, possession of a Schedule II drug and two counts probation violation.

• A Moultrie police officer pulled over a Honda Accord about midnight Sunday morning on Talmadge Drive Southeast because it did not have operating headlights or tail lights, the officer’s report said.

While talking with the driver, the officer smelled marijuana, his report said, so he got the driver and her three passengers to exit the vehicle. None admitted knowing where marijuana smell was coming from.

The officer found a small pouch containing a green, leafy substance in the cup holder. When confronted, all of the people from the car said it wasn’t theirs. One said it might belong to her cousin, who was not with them; he might be back in Miami, Fla., and wasn’t picking up his phone, she said.

Further investigation found the driver’s license was suspended.

The driver, Kenya Odom, 25, of Mableton, Ga., was charged with driving while license withdrawn and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana.

The others in the car — Keyron Hill, 25, of Norman Park, Ladorrian Thomas, 18, of Norman Park, and Briannah Erving, 22, of Moultrie — were charged with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and released on subpoena.