SOUTHWEST GEORGIA — Two southwest Georgians pled guilty to trafficking methamphetamine and guns in federal court.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Georgia, Justin Harris Vinson, 42 of Warwick, and Shana Rae Black, 34 of Cordele, were arrested during a federal armed drug trafficking investigation.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said a confidential informant working with the Crisp County Sheriff’s Office had messaged Black over Facebook in October 2022 about buying meth.
At the sale, the informant purchased 111 grams of the drug while at a motel in Perry, Ga. During the transaction, the informant told members of law enforcement that there was a pistol on a nightstand in the motel room next to “a bulk quantity of methamphetamine.”
Just over a week later, on Halloween 2022, an undercover agent from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation reached out to Black to buy meth, meeting her at a Cordele Walmart.
While under audio and video surveillance, the agent bought meth from Black.