Woman Gets 25 Years For Running Meth Stash House in Cobb

MABLETON, GA -- A Mableton woman convicted of running a methamphetamine operation from her home was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison.

Bidiliana Garcia's house on Queen Mill Road was used as a drug and cash stash house, according to Cobb County District Attorney Vic Reynolds.

Garcia pleaded guilty Monday in Cobb Superior Court to trafficking methamphetamine.

“This conviction breaks a link in the deadly supply chain pushing poison into our community,” Assistant District Attorney Brendan Murphy, the case's prosecutor, said in a statement. “In Cobb County, drug users get the help they need, but drug traffickers go to prison. Period.”

Prosecutors allege that in November 2015, that federal Drug Enforcement Agency agents converged on Queen Mill Road in Mabletown on suspicions that Garcia was running a criminal enterprise from her home.

Garcia let the agents inside the home, where they found "large quantities of suspected methamphetamine in plain view," the Cobb District Attorney's Office said in a news release.

Agents left the home but returned with a search warrant, seizing 45 pounds of methamphetamine and more than $16,000 in cash.

In addition to prison time, Garcia also must pay a $1 million fine, the judge ruled.

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