Grandma helped Georgia man sell drugs at a high school, officials say
A Brunswick man was sentenced to six years in prison Monday after officials say he and his grandmother sold drugs at a high school.
Joseph Mincey, 28, had already pleaded guilty to cocaine and marijuana possession with intent to distribute and firearms possession, according to the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Georgia Edward Tarver. Glynn County police arrested Mincey on Saturday at a shopping center with approximately two ounces of cocaine on him.
Police believed he was going to sell the cocaine to a Glynn County High School student at the time of his arrest.
Elnora Mincey, Joseph Mincey’s 76-year-old grandmother, was also arrested on drug charges after investigators found she helped with the sales.
“It can’t get any worse than a drug dealer and his grandmother selling poison in our schools,” Tarver said. “It is unfortunate that the life lessons learned by (Joseph Mincey) led him to a federal prison sentence.”
Joseph Mincey had been investigated as far back as November 2015, Tarver said. An undercover officer with the Glynn-Brunswick Narcotics Enforcement Team posed as a high school student and purchased cocaine from Mincey, officials said.
At the time of Mincey’s arrest, authorities found two loaded guns, $2,300 in cash and several pounds of marijuana and cocaine at his home through a search warrant.
