Trio hit with drug charges in Cherokee

Drug enforcers have arrested three people in Cherokee County on heroin charges.

Cherokee Multi-Agency Narcotics Squad agents nabbed Joseph Raymond Koss, 23, and Kevin Dearing, 20, of Acworth Wednesday as they traveled from Atlanta back to Cherokee County, seizing more than eight grams of heroin in their car and smaller amounts from each suspect. Both men were charged with trafficking heroin and remain at the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center. Officials called Koss a source of the drug in south Cherokee.

CMANS agents also arrested Kimberly Reed, 32, of the Hickory Flat community, saying she tried to sell 3.6 grams of heroin. She’s jailed charged with four counts of the sale of heroin.