Winder police officers last week busted up an unusual drug operation down the street from Barrow County Leisure Services. The operation out of an apartment on 2nd Street involved the use of a wireless doorbell button attached to a tree in nearby woods. Buyers first would push the remote doorbell, then go to the back of the apartment and ring a second doorbell.
“Once the doorbell is rung, (the dealer) will lower a bucket from his apartment,” states a police report. “The drug user will place money in the bucket, and once (the dealer) receives the money, he will lower the drugs to the user.”
In the early morning hours of May 22, a total of 13 officers from three city police units conducted a “no knock” search of the apartment.
Inside were four people, including Laurnecia Fulton of Athens, who leases the Winder apartment; her son, whose name and age were not released; Antwan Scruggs of Lawrenceville, and a fourth man who had come for the holiday weekend and was later released by police without being charged.
During the search, officers seized suspected marijuana, two blunts, and a few Percocet pills in a gallon-size plastic bag. Officers also confiscated a digital scale, a bucket with red writing on it, brown rope, a wireless door chime and a doorbell button that was discovered taped to a tree about 60-100 feet from the apartment building.
For more information on this story and other crime news, see the May 27 issue of the Barrow Journal.
