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Vol. 48, No. 152

DEA: Cartel bust nets nearly $1M cash

Millions of dollars worth of drugs found BY ISABEL HUGHES

isabel.hughes @gwinnettdailypost.com

A joint investigation between the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration yielded nearly $1 million in cash and

several million dollars more worth of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine during a drug raid on Thursday. The bust, which began at a tire shop in south Fulton County on Thursday, led DEA agents to a Lawrenceville home, said Robert Murphy, special agent in charge

A joint investigation between the Gwinnett County District Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration yielded nearly $1 million in cash and several million dollars more worth of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine during a drug raid on Thursday. (Staff Photo: Isabel Hughes)

for the Atlanta DEA field division. “We received information (Thursday) that a load of drugs was coming in,” Murphy said. “Agents set up on surveillance, they saw some activity at a tire shop where See BUST, Page 5A

NEW RIVALRY

Remembering Nick Blakely Lawrenceville group donates in football player’s memory BY TREVOR MCNABOE trevor.mcnaboe@gwinnettdailypost.com

Dacula students Will Arnow and Sydney Benson celebrate on Friday after learning their school won Friday Night Food Fight. (Special Photos)

Schools face off with Friday Night Food Fight BY TREVOR MCNABOE trevor.mcnaboe @gwinnettdailypost.com

Friday night not only brought the Dacula and Mountain View football teams together in competition, it also brought both communities together for a cause to help their respective clusters. At halftime during the football game, Dacula High School was crowned champions of the third annual Friday Night Food Fights, a competition that challenges nearby clusters to collect nonperishable food and supplies to stock their school pantries. As a school, Dacula raised 8,139 pounds, while Mountain View raised 7,049 pounds. For the past two years, Dacula has competed against Mill Creek in the competition. This year, Mountain View joined the mix and faced off against Dacula. “The vision for this round is working to take care of our community within the school and in the surrounding areas as well, said Susan Lang, who is director of The Pantry at Hamilton Mill United Methodist Church. “These schools

The date Aug. 28, 2017, is forever etched into Michelle Wilson’s mind. She remembers the ringing of her phone and the conversation informing her that her son, 19-year-old Nick Blakely, had passed away. In the year since that call Wilson has taken the grief for her deceased son and turned it into a chance to impact the Gwinnett community with the Nick Blakely Foundation and its mission — raising awareness and promoting cardiac safety. “This past year the community has been outstanding and so supportive in remembering him,” Wilson said. “It’s great they remember the good things about him and what he did.” Wilson, through the foundation, is aspiring to outfit each recreation park in Gwinnett County with an automated external defibrillator, also known as an AED. An AED is a portable device that checks heart rhythm and can send an electric shock to try to restore a heart to normal rhythm. On Aug. 11, she donated the first AED to Rhodes Jordan Park in Lawrenceville, where Blakely played youth football. “Every day, I think about Nick and want his dying not to be in vain,” Wilson said. “I

See BLAKELY, Page 5A

Dacula won Friday Night Food Fight with more than 8,000 pounds donated.

are similar in size and each school is now housing school-based food pantries.” In addition to stocking their schools food pantries, Dacula is donating additional food to the Lawrenceville Co-Op, while Mountain View will donate any food that doesn’t fit in their “Benevolent Bears Bank” to the Hamilton Mill UMC food pantry.

“Being involved in this allowed us to have an open door relationship with the pantry,” Mountain View Beta Club sponsor Emily Jennings said. “We have a small space to store the food. This gave us the opportunity to continue to feed families in our cluster.” Dacula junior Sydney Benson See RIVALRY, Page 5A

Nick Blakely, a 2016 Archer graduate, is pictured during a football game. (Special Photo)

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