A forty-eight-year-old Rome man is set to turn himself in to the Floyd County Superior Court today after being sentenced earlier this week in a drug case that started with his arrest at the Dollar General store parking lot in Gore in Chattooga County.

Johnny Oscar Carter III was arrested in December of 2022 after an informant with the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force arranged to buy around a pound of methamphetamine from him for $2,400.  After his arrest, Carter cooperated with law enforcement and told them that he had more meth at his house in Rome.  Drug agents found 446 grams of methamphetamine in a safe at Carter’s residence.

Carter is facing a sentence of thirty years with seven years to be served in prison and a fine of $200,000.  Carter was allowed time to take care of some family matters before he turns himself in today to the Floyd County Superior Court.

Carter is still facing charges in Chattooga County.