This week, Dade County Sheriff’s Deputies seized over 63 grams of methamphetamine during a traffic stop in the Head River area of Cloudland on Lookout Mountain.

Two arrests were made in connection with the seizure of those drugs.  The Dade County Sheriff’s Department says that is just one of several traffic stops that have resulted in the seizure of dangerous and illegal drugs.  The GBI says that methamphetamine continues to be a problem in all 159 counties in Georgia.

Methamphetamine continues to be cheap to make and profits are high for those who manufacture the illegal drug.  Increasingly, the methamphetamine that is showing up in Georgia is coming from Mexican drug cartels, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, “Methamphetamine smuggling into the United States from Mexico is controlled primarily by the same major organizations that dominate the production/trafficking of other illicit drugs from Mexico into the United States”.