{"id":68157,"date":"2025-11-24T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/68157\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T21:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T21:41:08","slug":"719-kilos-of-meth-seized-in-atlanta-and-hall-county-in-major-fbi-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/68157\/","title":{"rendered":"719 kilos of meth seized in Atlanta and Hall County in major FBI operation"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA \u2014 Authorities uncovered hundreds of kilos of meth hidden in blackberry shipments during coordinated raids across metro Atlanta.<\/p>\n

The FBI, along with its law enforcement partners, seized 719 kilos (1,585 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine in a series of search warrants in Atlanta and Hall County Friday night according to a press release. <\/p>\n

The GBI agents and assisting agencies searched a home on Custer Avenue and found 419 kilos of meth hidden in a refrigerated truck loaded with blackberries according to a GBI Instagram post. <\/p>\n

Deputies in Hall County, with support from the FBI and other partners, discovered another refrigerated truck outside a business on McEver Road containing 300 kilos of meth concealed in a similar shipment of blackberries. Investigators believe both shipments were smuggled into the United States from Mexico according to the FBI.<\/p>\n

Two men, Juan Hernandez, 40, and Nelsonen Sorto, 36, were arrested and charged with trafficking methamphetamine following the joint investigation.<\/p>\n

Agents also seized three firearms at the Atlanta location after securing the search warrant based on intelligence gathered a day earlier.<\/p>\n

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The three men face state charges as the investigation continues, and anyone with information is asked to contact FBI Atlanta at tips.fbi.gov,<\/a> the GBI West Metro Regional Drug Enforcement Office at (770) 830-1375, or the Hall County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Authorities uncovered hundreds of kilos of meth hidden in blackberry shipments during coordinated raids across metro…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-68157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}