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Roswell mayor credits police, federal partners for large drug seizure; touts staffing and public-safety investments
Summary
Mayor Kurt Wilson announced a drug seizure and arrests made with federal partners and highlighted zero sworn officer vacancies, shutdowns of illicit massage parlors, a new public-safety headquarters, and progress toward a full-time fire department.
Roswell, Ga. — Mayor Kurt Wilson on Wednesday announced what he described as a major law-enforcement success: the Roswell Police Department, working with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations, seized more than 15 kilograms of methamphetamine and cocaine, which Wilson said were “drugs worth over $750,000,” and arrested two people in connection with the case.
Wilson said officers also “shut down a suspected drug conversion lab, and seized cash, packaging, and chemicals used to traffic drugs in our Roswell community.” He credited the operation to the police department’s partnerships with federal agencies and called it “exactly the kind of proactive policing that keeps our Roswell…
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