Lacey Waters
Walter WatersAuthorities on Tuesday charged a couple living in LaFayette, Ga., in connection with a drug investigation that police say links them to an international narcotics distribution network.
Walter Mac Waters Jr., 42, and his wife, Lacey Siobhan Waters, 32, of 601 Culberson Ave. are being held at the Walker County Jail.
The narcotics distribution network they are charged in connection with stretches into multiple countries, and the couple is believed to have both imported and exported illegal drugs internationally from LaFayette, according to Patrick Doyle, commander of the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force.
“It is an international distribution operation taking place overseas, but not in Mexico like normally expected,” Doyle said.
Investigators searched the Waterses’ residence and storage unit. Those searches led investigators to obtain two additional warrants to search the couple’s car and a personal safe, Doyle said.