The father of a Norcross teenager killed during a February home invasion was arrested Wednesday by federal agents, police said Thursday evening.
Drug Enforcement Administration agents arrested Nicholas Jackson, 38, at the Norcross police headquarters, said Capt. Brian Harr with Norcross police. Norcross officers assisted with the arrest, which was the result of a federal investigation, Harr said.
Charges against Jackson were not disclosed. Harr referred questions regarding the arrest to the U.S. Attorney's Office, which did not respond to a request for information late Thursday.
Jackson is one of nine people charged with possession of drugs with the intent to distribute, according to the indictment filed July 25 in U.S. District Court and obtained by the AJC. The nine were allegedly part of a conspiracy, beginning in January 2011, to distribute at least five kilograms of cocaine and 50 kilograms of marijuana, the indictment states.
There is no apparent connection between the teen's death and his father's arrest.
A seventh person was arrested in April in connection with the shooting death of 15-year-old Nicholas Jackson II, a Norcross High School freshman who played on the varsity football team. The teen was shot in the heart during an apparent robbery gone awry at his family's Autry Street home near Holcomb Bridge Road.
The younger Jackson and his sister, Nikia Jackson, 17, were at home by themselves at the time of the break-in, police have said.
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