Two of 30 people charged in a Marion County meth roundup Thursday were released on bond Friday, but the rest were behind bars, records show.
The Marion raid, led by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and local law officers, targeted 26 people named in a 38-count federal indictment and four on related charges, said Darryl Hill, ATF resident agent in charge of the Chattanooga office.
“After very extensive man hours … these things come together,” Agent Hill said.
The roundup started about 6 a.m. CST Thursday morning, as law enforcers began bringing defendants from Bledsoe, Grundy, Hamilton, Marion and Sequatchie counties to the Marion County Jail.
Those charged in the indictment are:
Harry Allen “Osama” Pritchett, 49
James “Bucky” Green, 51
Bobby Rollins, 48
Eddie “Stump” Rollins, 47
David “Lynn” Dempsey, 48
Gregory Layne, 42
Timothy “Fuzz Face” Davis, 37
Leslie Apger, 30
Anthony Caldwell, 37
Jamie “Bryson” Osborne, 32
Berry Nolan, 41
Ralph Layne, 20
Hunter Andregg, 30
Clarence “Stick” Green, 43
Lacy James, 24
Ella King, 30
Haley McGowan, 27
Stephen Baird, 43
Jeanny Runions, 40
Jessie Johnson, 46
Jesse Johnson, 23
Glenn “Rick” Skiles, 53
Donna Shropshire, 35
Crystal Davis, 26
Wendy Patterson, 37
Donnie Rogers, 32
They are charged in federal indictments with conspiracy to manufacture more than 500 grams of methamphetamine and to acquire and possess pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in meth. Several also were charged with illegal possession of firearms and possession of firearms in drug trafficking, said Chad Johnson, an ATF agent who works with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office task force.
Gregory Layne and Hunter Andregg were released Friday morning. The others will be in custody bond at the Silverdale Corrections Facility until they can come before a magistrate next week.
Others were not eligible for bond and will remain in prison until their court case, he said.
FACING PRISON
If convicted, each defendant faces a statutory mandatory minimum of 10 to 20 years up to life imprisonment, as well as a $4 million fine and a minimum of five years of supervised release.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice