Forsyth County Deputies Seize Suspected Drugs, Two Charged on Warrants

Deputies from the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched about 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 20 to a Ridgefair Drive home in Cumming seeking a 38-year-old Cumming man on a violation of probation warrant. Deputies found the man and a 36-year-old Winder woman inside a car in the driveway and arrested both on violation-of-probation warrants, the sheriff’s office said.

After the arrests, deputies discovered a baggie containing a small rock in plain sight inside the vehicle, the sheriff’s office reported. The sheriff’s office said the rock was suspected to be heroin or fentanyl; the reports do not say whether the substance has been submitted for laboratory confirmation or whether formal drug charges were filed in connection with the seizure.

The sheriff’s office account did not publish names, an exact Ridgefair Drive address number, a vehicle description, booking information, or bond and court dates for the two people arrested on Feb. 20. Those details, including copies of the violation-of-probation warrants and any incident report or evidence inventory, would be needed to confirm the identities, the origin of the warrants, and whether prosecutors have added drug charges beyond the probation violations.

Countywide enforcement activity in February provides context to the Cumming arrest. Lieutenant Timothy Mabe of the Forsyth County Drug Task Force said his team seized over 3 million dollars worth of drugs and over a dozen guns in the month of February. “Right now, the biggest seizures that we're having is cocaine and methamphetamine,” said Mabe. He added that larger targeting operations and cross-agency information sharing are producing more seizures and urged residents to provide tips, noting, “I mean, this is a large city, this is a large county, and we do rely on our local residents when they provide information, It's very fruitful a lot of times.” He also named the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Crime Stoppers line as a way to report anonymous tips.

Separately, Winston-Salem police and Forsyth County Drug Task Force detectives have been tied to a multi-address probe that resulted in large THC vape seizures. Investigators reported search warrants at three addresses and the seizure of roughly 26,100 grams of THC vape pens — a figure also described in some accounts as more than 20,000 grams — with an estimated street value of more than $1 million; Vontarius Tramonte Jackson, 18, was arrested and charged with possession with intent to sell and distribute a schedule VI substance in that matter. Authorities have not tied the Ridgefair Drive Feb. 20 arrest to those vape-pen seizures.

To determine next steps in the Ridgefair Drive case, records to request include the Forsyth County Sheriff’s incident report for Feb. 20, arrest and booking records for the two people taken into custody, copies of the violation-of-probation warrants, and any laboratory test results for the seized rock. Court dockets and lab confirmations will show whether additional drug charges are filed and the substance is identified.