Central State Prison drug ring: 13 sentenced for distributing meth across North Georgia

The Brief

  • Thirteen members of a prison-based methamphetamine ring were sentenced for distributing drugs across North Georgia.
  • Inmates at state and federal facilities coordinated with outside couriers to move massive amounts of meth.
  • Law enforcement seized a conversion lab and over 3,000 kilograms of methamphetamine during the multi-year investigation.

ATLANTA Thirteen members of a drug trafficking organization that orchestrated a massive methamphetamine distribution network from behind prison walls have been convicted and sentenced, federal officials announced.

The group, which included both state and federal inmates, coordinated with couriers and distributors to flood North Georgia communities with the drug before being dismantled by a joint law enforcement task force.

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