The Henderson County Sheriff's Office landed its biggest drug bust of the year early Wednesday morning.
On our podcast, Sheriff Botie Hillhouse talked about the arrests, the amount of narcotics seized and how they are destroyed, what goes into this sort raid, and what sort of prison sentences could be involved.
Listen to the conversation above starting at the 1:22 mark of the interview.
Below, you can read the press release issued by the Sheriff's Office about this incident.
Sheriff Botie Hillhouse’s Investigators and Deputies raided an Athens motel room early Wednesday morning and arrested two methamphetamine dealers with a substantial amount of the drug, a gun, and cash.
“We caught these two suspects just before they were ready to dump pounds of this horrible drug on the streets,” Hillhouse said.
Joshua Warren Pannitti, 30, of Waxahachie and Heather Renee Cervantes, 30 of Eustace were arrested after 4 a.m. when Hillhouse’s team raided a room at the Stay Express Inn Motel in the 700 block of Highway 31 East in Athens.
The pair had 2.2 pounds of meth, a 9 mm handgun, a large amount of cash, baggies to package the drugs, and paraphernalia to ingest the contraband.
The male suspect was also charged with a parole violation.
It was 392nd District Judge Scott McKee who signed the search warrant for the raid. Narcotic’s Investigators Jonathan Hutchison, Kenneth Slaton, and Gabriel Shue took five deputies with them.
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