Multi-Agency Meth Bust Lands Family in Jail

"I think what’s caught everyone’s attention is it was a father and two sons," said Whitfield County Sheriff Scott Chitwood. "The Bramblett family became very well known to us. I felt like they were responsible for distributing a lot and large amounts of drugs in the Murray, Whitfield, Catoosa, Gordon, the northwest Georgia area here. So with the arrest and getting these individuals off the street, we are very pleased and consider this a good hit."

Whitfield and Murray County began watching the Brambletts after a traffic stop in September turned up a quarter pound of meth.

Fast forward a month, ANOTHER traffic stop in Whitfield turns up a POUND of meth.

This leads to search warrants of the Brambletts two homes in Oak Hill Estates in Murray County.

One home has 40 thousand cash in it and the other…another pound of meth, marijuana and guns.

"The drug investigators I think were very familiar with them," Chitwood said. "The investigation has been going on a little while. And when we did the traffic stop with them it kind of set things off and lit the fuse so we were able to move on it quickly."

Chitwood said meth is the drug of choice in north Georgia because of its highly addictive, cheap, and quick.

But the game has changed with recent government restrictions on the purchase of psuedoephedrine, a common ingredient in making meth.

"We used to see a lot of meth labs but now we don’t see that much but a lot of people are shipping it in now. Once in a blue moon we will see a lab but not as frequently as we used to so it’s easier and cheaper to ship it in as opposed to manufacturing it."

The five suspects are being held in the Whitfield County jail.