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Nine indicted following multi-agency meth investigation in upper Cumberland area

DEKALB COUNTY – An ongoing drug investigation by special agents with the Drug Investigation Division of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, with the assistance of multiple additional law enforcement partner agencies, has resulted in the indictment and arrest of nine people on various drug-related charges.

Beginning in February 2021, TBI agents and partner agencies spent nine months on an undercover investigation, dubbed "Operation Ice Pick", into methamphetamine being sold through a drug trafficking organization in the Middle Tennessee Upper Cumberland area. Other agencies involved included the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, Middle Tennessee Task Force High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force, Office of the 13 th Judicial District Attorney General, Homeland Security Investigations, Cookeville Police Department, Putnam County Sheriff's Office, Cumberland County Sheriff's Office, Crossville Police Department, and Warren County Sheriff's Office. During the course of the operation, investigators seized multiple pounds of methamphetamine, along with several vehicles, weapons, and US currency.

On June 8, the DeKalb County Grand Jury returned indictments, charging multiple individuals on various drug-related charges. Over the past two days, those individuals have been arrested and booked into area jails:

 

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