An 18-year-old from Norcross is being held in the Hall County Jail on several drug-related charges, including trafficking, after he was stopped on traffic charges by sheriff’s deputies in South Hall recently.
HALL COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE NARRATIVE:
“A Hall County Sheriff’s Office traffic stop for speeding in South Hall County over the weekend landed a Norcross man in jail on multiple drug and traffic charges.
At approximately 4 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 4, Traffic Unit deputies clocked a northbound car doing more than 100 mph on Interstate 985 near Exit 8/Friendship Road. The driver took Exit 8 and made a right on Friendship Road. Deputies activated their blue lights and stopped the car, a 2015 Volkswagen Passat, at a gas station on Friendship Road and Distribution parkway.
Deputies arrested the driver, Luis Angel Navaraz-Martinez, 18, for DUI-drugs and other traffic offenses, including speeding, driving with suspended/cancelled/revoked tag, no proof of insurance and a brake light violation.
During a vehicle inventory prior to towing, deputies located approximately five grams of fentanyl, four MDMA pills, less than a gram of cocaine, a handgun and roughly $8,300 cash. The estimated street value of the drug is approximately $1,000.
Investigators charged Navaraz-Martinez with trafficking fentanyl, possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, possession of MDMA, possession of cocaine and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, all felonies. He is also charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor, due to his 16-year-old male passenger.
Deputies took Navaraz-Martinez to the Hall County Jail where he remains held without bond.”