Possession of marijuana with intent to sell (F3).Possession of Xanax with intent to sell (F3).Possession of a structure for drug trafficking (F2).Those arrested on Polk County charges are:ģ7-year-old Amber Cayson who resides at 3237 Xerxes Avenue NW, Winter Haven. Approximately 2,500 Xanax pills seized (street value: approximately $25,000).Approximately 2.4 pounds of marijuana (street value: approximately $7,000).Approximately 24.8 pounds of THC edibles seized (street value: approximately $8,480).Approximately 1500 pounds of methamphetamine seized (street value: approximately $53.8 million).5 vehicles seized (1 was reported as a stolen vehicle).20 firearms seized (3 were reported as stolen).Through our partnership with Homeland Security and law enforcement agencies in Florida and Georgia, our detectives took a huge amount of meth off the street and shut down an active drug trafficker operating out of a federal prison.” – Grady Judd, Sheriff Methamphetamine destroys lives, degrades communities, and ruins families. We seized 20 firearms during this investigation, including rifles, shotguns, handguns, and three stolen guns. They use violence as a means to enforce their trafficking business. They make money off the misery of others. These drug dealers have blood on their hands. “Some people still call this low-level, non-violent drugs. READ MORE: The FDA Authorizes Change In How Monkeypox Vaccine Is Given HSI investigators have associated this illegal drug trafficking organization with the Juarez Mexican Cartel, a brutally violent cartel known for its targeted executions and violence. HSI agents and local Georgia law enforcement officers served search warrants at 8 locations in Georgia, arrested 3, and seized 1,416 pounds of crystalized and liquid methamphetamine.ĭuring their search of one of the illegal conversion labs located in College Park, Georgia, HSI agents and local law enforcement officers discovered and dismantled an illegal rooster fighting ring belonging to 59-year-old Isidoro Palacios. Meers’ arrest led investigators to the location of 3 methamphetamine conversion labs in Georgia. When they retrieved the narcotics from Meers’ truck, they found luggage with 16 vacuum sealed bags containing approximately 35 pounds of methamphetamine.Ī short time later, Meers was arrested on a Polk County Sheriff’s Office warrant by the Sandy Springs Georgia Police Department during a traffic stop.ĭuring an interview, Meers told detectives that Stanton coordinated the delivery of the methamphetamine and that he pays her $500 for every kilo (2.2 pounds) of methamphetamine she delivers.

On March 30, 2021, HSI and PCSO undercover detectives arranged to pick up the drugs from inside Meers’ personally owned truck near her place of employment in Atlanta. On March 19, 2021, Stanton, still from within the federal prison, arranged for another 35 pounds of methamphetamine to be delivered by Meers to PCSO undercover detectives.

After the delivery, Meers, who is on federal probation for drug trafficking, left the hotel and returned to Georgia. On March 13, 2021, 43-year-old Jennifer Meers of Stone Mountain, Georgia delivered a suitcase with 12 large clear storage bags containing 26 pounds of methamphetamine to an undercover detective at a hotel in Lakeland. Stanton is currently incarcerated in the United States Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta.ĭuring the investigation, Stanton, from within the federal prison in Atlanta, coordinated and arranged with undercover detectives the purchase and delivery of approximately 26 pounds of methamphetamine from Georgia to Polk County, Florida. PCSO undercover detectives conducted a controlled delivery at 3237 Xerxes Avenue NW in Winter Haven and arrested 37-year-old Amber Cayson of Winter Haven. Also seized at the residence was 24 pounds of THC edibles, 2.4 pounds of marijuana, and a pound of methamphetamine.Īs the investigation progressed, PCSO detectives learned of a suspected drug trafficker in Georgia, 37-year-old Brian Stanton, known as “Lil B,” who was arranging for the sale and delivery of methamphetamine in Polk County. The investigation began on January 14, 2021, when a parcel shipped from Quebec, Canada containing approximately 2,500 Xanax pills was intercepted by investigators. The primary drug trafficking broker operated from a federal prison in Georgia. In early 2021, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force (HIDTA) and the Department of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) initiated a joint investigation of a drug trafficking organization with ties to the Juarez Mexican Drug Cartel.

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