Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Cherokee Multi-Agency Narcotics Squad (CMANS) announces the arrest of an individual who had delivered almost a quarter pound of methamphetamine to northeastern Cherokee County. Fernando Pastrana-Velasquez, 25 YOA of Duluth, Georgia, was arrested on August 28, 2010, and charged with Trafficking Methamphetamine. Citizen tips to CMANS Agents resulted in Agents conducting a surveillance operation in Freehome community, in an attempt to locate a suspicious man who had been seen in the

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Cherokee Multi-Agency Narcotics Squad (CMANS) announces that CMANS Agents will be in attendance at this year’s Cherokee Night-Out-Against –Crime to “Take-Back” out of date and unused prescriptions drugs that people may have in their home.  Prescription drugs are a continuing problem in our communities, and Agents hope to emphasis that when prescription drugs are no longer needed they should be properly disposed of. In the last two years, according to the

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Cherokee Multi-Agency Narcotics Squad (CMANS) announces the arrest of three individuals involved in passing forged prescriptions in Cherokee, Cobb, Bartow and DeKalb Counties. David Carl Meador, 38 YOA of Acworth, Georgia, was arrested on August 3, 2010, and charged with six (6) counts of Forgery in the First Degree, two (2) counts of Forgery in the Second Degree, four (4) counts of Fraudulently Obtaining Controlled Substances, two (2) counts of Obtaining

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