Federal agents seized several drugs and arrested two men in connection with a methamphetamine operation in a north Fulton County neighborhood.
Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested Giovani Orozco Ramirez and Brayan Lisandro Razo Bermudez on drug trafficking and gun charges April 26 after they seized methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and guns inside Ramirez’s home.
According to an affidavit, an informant told DEA officials a drug dealer based in Mexico was selling up to 100 kilograms of methamphetamine worth $9,200 in Atlanta.
Ramirez allegedly sold some of the drugs in a shopping center parking lot in Johns Creek, officials said. He had an orange-yellow shopping bag thought to be carrying a zip-lock bag of kilogram of methamphetamine, officials said.
Federal agents later arrested him at his Alpharetta home during a search and found Bermudez in the basement near the shopping bag of drugs, a loaded gun and two kilograms of cocaine. The two men were taken into custody.
Bemudez told authorities he was paying Ramirez $200 to live at the home for the past two months and was not allowed in the basement area where the drugs were recovered except to exercise.
Authorities said no exercise equipment was found in the basement, which was empty.
A judge ruled to keep both men detained, Channel 2 Action News reported.
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