Feds Say Brookhaven Bond Jumper Busted With Fentanyl Bricks on I-85

Federal agents say a 39-year-old Brookhaven man was back in front of a judge Thursday after surveillance at an Atlanta apartment complex led to a highway traffic stop and a car packed with narcotics.

Court filings state that agents watched the suspect at an Atlanta apartment complex on February 5, where they say he placed a duffel bag into a second vehicle. A short time later on Interstate 85 in Braselton, authorities pulled that vehicle over and reported finding roughly 825 grams of fentanyl powder, about five kilograms of cocaine and a one-kilogram press used to compress drugs into bricks. The defendant then appeared before a U.S. magistrate on March 5.

Prosecutors allege the man, identified as Quincy Adam Rogers, was not just carrying personal-use quantities. As reported by The Georgia Sun, Rogers has been charged with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and cocaine, and prosecutors estimated the wholesale street value of the drugs at more than $100,000…

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