Monday, October 15, 2018

(Information 12 at 6 a.m. / NBC 26 at 7)

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW / WAGT) – A ten-month Information 12 investigation uncovered in 10 months Richmond County narcotics investigators confiscated hundreds of {dollars} price of medicine in Harrisburg.

Harrisburg’s historic district was as soon as house to manufacturing facility employees. The streets at the moment are adorned with a few of Augusta’s oldest church buildings and homes and are additionally house to a lot of Augusta’s drug trafficking downside.

The narcotics division of the Richmond County Sheriff’s Workplace allow us to go as much as Harrisburg.

We have been driving when investigator Cecil Ridley noticed somebody he acknowledged.

“That man over there,” Ridley mentioned, pointing to a person. “He is a type of we used to take care of frequently. I had no thought he was away. [of jail]. “

This impulsive shutdown led to a drug give up at 2328 Gardner St.

Ridley: “Let me yell at you for a second? Who smoked weed?”

Search warrants present investigators discovered greater than 45 grams of crack cocaine, 29 grams of weed and a gun in the home.

They arrested the twins Tavaras and Travis Peterson.

Tavaras Peterson is charged with cocaine trafficking.

In 2018, investigators executed ten Harrisburg search warrants in opposition to suspected drug homes, confiscating hundreds of {dollars} in medicine.

Search warrants present that over the previous 10 months, investigators have discovered over 1,000 grams of weed in these Harrisburg rental houses, over 80 grams of crack cocaine and 50 grams of methamphetamine.

Kelly Wiley: “Do you see houses for repeat offenders? The identical?

Investigator Ridley: “Usually. And infrequently what it’s, these landlords that they will hire to anybody with no credit check test, stuff like that. And that is the important thing to the open door there.

We discovered {that a} Richmond County case administration background test would reveal that each tenant on the listed search warrants had beforehand been charged with medicine.

We didn’t discover any houses that have been searched twice by RCSO in 2018, however we did discover the identical house owners.

Lt. Richard Elim of the Richmond County Sheriff’s Workplace Narcotics Division says he isn’t stunned and says they’ve tried to repair the problem lately.

Lt. Elim says the district lawyer’s workplace is now asking them to trace downside houses after which report this info to his workplace.

“We’re warning them to say, ‘That is your home. This isn’t the primary time that we’ve got been there, and if it occurs once more, we are going to take authorized motion in opposition to you,'” he defined. prosecutor Natalie. Paine.

The District Attoney wrote a letter to the proprietor of 701 Tuttle St. in Harrisburg saying partially that “the Richmond County Sheriff’s Workplace, in addition to my workplace, will always monitor your property. Ought to additional incidents of legal exercise proceed to happen. happen on this location, please learn. I intend to take authorized motion. “

“It is a nicely established neighborhood. A lot of retirees or individuals who have made it their house. You recognize they’re making an attempt to remain away,” Ridley advised us.

Richmond County code enforcement says they think two of these houses the place search warrants have been executed this yr are being dropped. In line with the knowledge supplied by the applying of the code, the vast majority of these households have been visited by the applying of the code greater than as soon as.