Alleged Drug Trafficking Organization Raided by Police

A suspected drug kingpin and members of his trafficking organization were arrested by members of the county’s narcotics squad near the end of October, documents show.

David Baza-Maldonado, alias “Chucky,” is accused heading an organization which sold cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine in Cobb County as early as 2013, according to an arrest warrant.’

Baza-Maldonado was arrested on Oct. 30 by Cobb County sheriff’s deputies at the intersection of Callaway Road and Greenridge Drive just outside his home in the 1200 block of Fair Ridge Circle, Cobb County jail records show.

Cobb County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Robert Quigley told Patch Friday that “it is our practice to not discuss undercover drug operations.”

The warrant also implicates Erick Suazo-Carrero, Manuel Vargas-Ramirez, and Reynaldo Borja-Escobar as participants in the alleged organization. WSB-TV reports that 26 people connected to the alleged organization were arrested in a series of raids conducted by the Marietta-Cobb-Smyrna Narcotics Unit.

The warrant claims that undercover narcotics officers regularly purchased quantities of hard drugs from Baza-Maldonado and members of his alleged organization from Feb. 7, 2014 to Oct. 21, 2015. Investigators believe the operation had been in business since September of 2013.

Undercover agents reported that Baza-Maldonado always directed them to a location in Cobb County to purchase the drugs they had arranged to buy. Some purchases in the warrant include $1,900 for 55.85 grams of methamphetamine, $600 for 6.87 grams of heroin, and $900 for 27.19 grams of cocaine.

Baza-Maldonado remains incarcerated in the Cobb County jail on charges of trafficking in cocaine, illegal drugs, marijuana, or methamphetamine, two charges of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, a schedule II drug offense, and violating Georgia’s RICO statute.