Nearly 40 members of a drug trafficking organization have been sentenced to prison for their roles in distributing heroin, meth and fentanyl throughout metro Atlanta.
Members of the drug trafficking organization included several State of Georgia prison inmates, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release Wednesday.
“The successful dismantling of this large organization is a result of a tenacious multi-year effort from federal, state, and local authorities to root out narcotics trafficking originating from state prisons,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Richard S. Moultrie Jr. “Our office will continue to work closely with our law enforcement partners to leverage all resources to identify, apprehend and prosecute entire networks of offenders responsible for distributing deadly drugs into our communities.”…