A Fannin County man convicted of trafficking over a kilogram of methamphetamine in Cherokee County will spend three decades in prison.
On Feb. 24, a Cherokee County jury found Ricky Wright, 39, of Fannin County guilty of trafficking methamphetamine, and on Feb. 25 he was sentenced by Superior Court Judge Shannon Wallace to 30 years in prison, the Cherokee County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Wright was sentenced as a recidivist offender and ordered to pay a $1 million fine required under state law for trafficking more than 400 grams of methamphetamine…