Anonymous tip leads police to $100K in drugs

Credit: Marietta Police Department

Credit: Marietta Police Department

An anonymous tip helped police raid a storage facility and confiscate $100,000 worth of marijuana.

Officials with the Marietta Police Department told WSB someone called 911 to report possible drug activity in a storage facility in Marietta, Georgia, on Thursday.

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“K-9 Apex was brought to the storage facility and alerted on a specific storage unit,” police said.

Officers stayed in the area and later watched two people enter the locker and remove the contents. Police then stopped the suspects as they were leaving.

Police said they found 30 1-pound packages of marijuana and $1,600 in cash.

Chuck Raiford, 40, and Telisha Passmore, 45, were charged with felony trafficking marijuana.

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