A Fannin County man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for trafficking more than one kilogram of methamphetamine. Cherokee County Superior Court Judge Shannon Wallace ordered 39-year-old Ricky Dwight Wright to pay a mandatory $1 million fine following a jury conviction earlier this week.
The sentence followed a verdict on Feb. 24 where a jury found Wright guilty of trafficking more than 400 grams of the drug. Wright was sentenced as a recidivist offender based on a March 2025 traffic stop in Woodstock where law enforcement recovered narcotics hidden inside a vehicle.
The investigation began on March 4, 2025, when a Woodstock police officer stopped an Acura sedan on I-575 at approximately 1:15 a.m. The officer initiated the traffic stop after learning that a person associated with the vehicle had an active warrant. During the encounter, one passenger attempted to hide and discard a drawstring bag that was later found to contain more than 175 grams of methamphetamine packaged in plastic bags…