Over 1,000 grams of meth seized, two arrested on trafficking charges

Jaylan Wright
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DEKALB COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office (DCSO), says that two people were arrested after a large amount of drugs were seized on Friday, April 26.

According to DCSO, agents with the DeKalb County Narcotics Unit, as well as the DeKalb County SRT and a DeKalb County Aviation Unit, conducted a vehicle takedown on Glenn Blvd in Fort Payne which ended with 1,014 grams (1 Kilogram) of methamphetamine seized.

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DCSO says that agents noticed two people who were identified as 51-year-old Thomas Dewayne Bailey, of Flat Rock, and 45-year-old Edwin Adam Hamilton, of Section in a vehicle.

Agents then boxed Bailey’s vehicle in and conducted a controlled takedown to avoid a vehicle pursuit which resulted in the arrests of Bailey and Hamilton.

DCSO says that Bailey had also cut off an ankle monitor that was issued to him earlier in the day by Alabama Pardons and Paroles.

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Bailey was charged with the following:

  • Trafficking In any Illegal Drug,

  • Unlawful Possession of Drug Paraphernalia,

  • Resisting Arrest

  • Attempt to Elude

Hamilton was charged with the following:

  • Trafficking in any Illegal Drug

  • Unlawful Possession of Drug Paraphernalia

  • Resisting Arrest

DeKalb County Sheriff Nick Welden released the following statement regarding the incident:

I am so proud of our law enforcement officers in the way this situation was handled. Our officers go through intensive training and numerous scenarios, so that they will know the best way to keep everyone safe, and Friday night, they showed up and showed out. The amount of methamphetamine that was seized would have ruined hundreds, if not thousands, of lives in this small community. We will never stop fighting to take this poison off the streets and to keep this out of the hands of our children. God Bless!

DeKalb County Sheriff Nick Welden

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