Heroin, shown here wrapped in balloons, has street cost ranges from $60 to $125 a balloon. The heroin was seized by undercover officers at the Metro Police East Precinct property room on Monday June 10, 2013, in Nashville.HEROIN ON THE RISELarger cities throughout Tennessee are seeing a surge in heroin cases.Jurisdiction 2010 / 2011 / 2012• East Tenn. 14 / 17 / 44• Hamilton 2 /4 /4• Knox 4 /5 /22• Middle Tennessee 77 / 121 / 241• Davidson 58 / 96 / 189• West Tennessee 75 / 107 / 143• Shelby 72 / 103 / 138Source: TBI
The visits were noticeable to a home on Moody Sawyer Road. People were coming up all day. The foot traffic never seemed to stop.
That’s what prompted someone to call Chattanooga police.
A man and woman reportedly were selling heroin from inside a dark-colored vehicle.
The arrest last week of 42-year-old Ronald Rutledge of Nevada and 19-year-old Laura Michelle Kirchner of Michigan on charges of possession of heroin was a reminder that a drug that had seemed to vanish from the streets for decades has returned.