MARIETTA, Ga. — Federal agents and police seized more than 1,000 pounds of methamphetamine from a house in a neighborhood in Cobb County. It was the second large meth bust in metro Atlanta in the last six weeks.
Federal agents said they got a tip in the last couple of days, went to the house, and said the smell of the house verified what the tipster had told them.
At the United States Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) Atlanta office downtown, federal agents laid out part of their haul of more than a half-ton of methamphetamine taken from a house in a neighborhood between Marietta and Austell.
Police said the house, at 1915 Pair Road., was in a neighborhood full of single-family homes and a school less than a half mile away. The house, they said, was fully converted for the processing of the illegal drug. DEA agent Robert Murphy described when agents first approached the property on Tuesday.
“It was in a neighborhood. When our men and women went up there to execute a search warrant, there was two minor girls riding their bikes in front of the house," Murphy said. "When we went up, we couldn’t even – we got blown away by the smell. It was so overwhelming when they approached the house. They knew exactly what we were going to find in there."
Murphy said the agents entering the house required hazmat suits and breathing apparatus. The chemicals inside created a danger of explosion, he said.
Much of the methamphetamine was in liquid form, prepped for processing into crystal. Federal agents and police arrested two men with Guatemala passports who were in the house and said they identified them as part of known drug cartels.
