Crime & Safety

Snellville Police Help Take More Than $2 Million Worth of Meth Off the Streets

About 131.2 pounds of the drugs were found at a Lawrenceville, Ga. home according to the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office.

On May 1st, local law enforcement agencies responded to a home at 858 James Road in unincorporated Lawrenceville, Ga. after receiving a tip that drugs were being stored there.

When Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office deputies and Homeland Security Investigations agents arrived, they found two containers filled with what they believed to be methamphetamine. The Gwinnett Metro Task Force also the drug in liquid form at the home.

Officers from the Lilburn, Lawrenceville, Snellville, Duluth and Suwanee Police Departments along with the GCSO make up the Gwinnett Metro Task Force.

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In all, approximately 131.2 pounds of methamphetamine was seized from the home. The drugs have an estimated street value of $2,099,200.

Snellville Police is credited with arresting Jesus Eduardo Cansino-Gonzalez who is listed as living at the Lawrenceville house. He was arrested on the scene and charged with trafficking in methamphetamine and is being held for immigration. The other suspect, Nahum Enoe Rodriguez of Norcross, was arrested the next day. Rodriguez was charged with conspiracy to commit a crime.

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