Federal prosecutors have charged nine local residents with conspiring to make and distribute crack cocaine over a two-year period.
The nine defendants saw U.S. Magistrate Judge William Carter on Thursday and today in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga. Carter allowed four of the defendants released and either detained or scheduled detention hearings for the rest.
Darrell Hamilton, Rhonda Albert, Stephanie Ball and Brian Posley were released pending hearings. Garry Rollins, Victor Jackson, Adrian Toran and Roland Jackson were either detained or scheduled for detention hearings next week.
Information was not available Friday on Kevin Albert, also charged in the indictment.
Local and federal law enforcement arrested the defendants earlier this week.