Sat. Police Beat: Drug trafficking; Chases, smokey ending to one (video)

Hall County authorities report the arrest of a 46-year-old man Friday morning on drug trafficking charges. The arrest occurred in the 3100 block of Willow Ridge Road. Charges include:

*POSSESSION OF COCAINE

*TRAFFICKING IN COCAINE/ILLEGAL DRUGS/MARIJUANA/METH

*POSSESSION OF COCAINE WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE

*SALE OF COCAINE

He is being held in the Hall County Jail without bond.

Meanwhile, bond has been set at $8,170 for a 29-year-old man accused of a number of things including fleeing and attempting to elude a Gainesville police officer. He was arrested about noon on Thursday, according to a report filed Friday. In addition to fleeing and attempting to elude, he’s being held for:

* ARREST ORDER SUPERIOR COUR

* PROBATION VIOLATION

* FAILURE TO MAINTAIN LANE

* OPERATING VEHICLE WITH EXPIRED TAG

* RECKLESS DRIVING

* STOP AT YIELD SIGN VIOLATION (6 COUNTS)

* NOT OBEYING TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES

And, then there’s this from the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office:

This case starts in the wee hours of February 4th at United Community Bank on Atlanta Highway. Two guys in a white Chevy van were seen on surveillance video tampering with the ATM. They left the area but returned about 30 minutes later and opened the ATM again leaving it open for several hours until they returned again later in the morning. Deputies put out a BOLO (Be On The Lookout) for the van.

Early the next morning, a deputy drove by the bank and noticed the white Chevy van sitting behind it. As the deputy approached the van, it took off. The driver drove down Atlanta Highway at speeds of 75-80 mph, passing cars, and driving on the wrong side of the road. But the van could not maintain those speeds and starts smoking. The driver lost control and crashed. The passenger tried to run away from the crash.

The two culprits, Yander Galue and Juan Carrero both from Lawrenceville, were checked out at a local hospital before being taken to jail.

Video available here:

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16MPWYCf6Q

Further details on some of these will likely not be available until Monday morning when local law enforcement offices reopen following the weekend.

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.