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| | INDICTMENT UNSEALED: 22 CHARGED IN LARGE SCALE DRUG SCHEME (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | At a news conference announcing the charges, federal, state and local law enforcement officials noted that the drugs were transported from the Cedartown, Georgia, area, to Northeast Alabama for further distribution and resale, and that at least 600 pounds of methamphetamine had been distributed as part of the scheme between July 2001 and October 2004. |
 | | This case began at the request of a number of individual law enforcement agencies, who were investigating drug transshipments, as well as a series of violent crimes, which they said appeared to have a common thread in the drug distribution trade. |
 | | This case is the result of an investigation by the Northwest Georgia Criminal Enterprise Task Force, which is comprised of law enforcement agents and officers from the FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Floyd County Police Department, the Polk County Sheriffs Department, and the Polk County Police Department. |
| www.usdoj.gov /usao/gan/press/03-17-05.html (700 words) |
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