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LOCAL The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Weekend Edition - August 29-30, 2020 7A R. Cantrell Brown M. Cantrell Rucker Buffington Hood Thompson Thurmond Henderson Jones ‘It’s very heartbreaking, because these are the women that my daughter could look up to.... It was heartbreaking just to hear their names even attached to something like this.’ RICO ■ Continued from 1A homeless students, for comment. No calls were answered or returned. A representative from the North Georgia Counseling and Education Center, where Hyziher is listed as a member of their team on a business referral website, declined to comment. McCray said the sisters had taken young girls in the community under their wings. “It’s very heartbreaking, because these are the women that my daughter could look up to.... It was heartbreaking just to hear their names even attached to something like this,” McCray said. Earnest Mason, an extended family member, said the women “don’t par take” in anything like this. “If it was around them, it was just because it was around them, but that’s not what they do,” Mason said. The Cooley Drive area, which becomes Black Drive, has been notori ous for drugs for at least 20 years, Mason said. All the neighbors know, and they all want it out of their neighborhood, Mason said. “This is nothing new,” McCray said. “I can honestly say my mom... she kept us shielded from a lot of things that went on. She kept us in church and in a good environment.” The Times requested the 911 calls concerning Black and Cooley Drives from Aug. 1,2019 to Aug. 1,2020, which show frequent extra patrols. “Citizens can request extra patrols based on calls and then the officer assigned to that zone/district initiates it,” Hall County 911 communications coordinator Leigh Stallings-Wood wrote in an email. Stallings-Wood said the zone/district officer can also make this decision for extra patrols. Johna McCray family friend Gainesville Police Chief Jay Parrish said at the Aug. 20 press conference announcing the arrests that the “drug dealers and drug users held those neigh borhoods hostage.” Brown and McCray described the neighborhood as one that takes care of each other, and McCray recalled some men in this neighborhood who went around one year giving out gift cards to older residents. “It’s a community where I would say the older generation — the 70 and up generation — they look out for the children,” Brown said. “That lets you know how long people have been living there. It’s mostly people that are 70 and above, so they are going to look out for the children.” Brown said she hopes the Glenn sis ters, who are “women of service,” will have their names cleared. The Times attempted to find out attor ney information for the suspects Friday, Aug. 28, from the Magistrate Court. The Magistrate Court representative for warded The Times to Superior Court Judge Jason Deal’s office, where a rep resentative said she had no information on the case. Those arrested in connection with the drug operation include: 1. Kavarus Lashaund Brown, 39, of Gainesville 2. Quincy Tyrone Buffington, 43, of Gainesville 3. Marquez Sanchez Cantrell, 33, of Gainesville Courtesy Hall County Sheriff's Office 14 people are in custody in connection to a Hall County drug trafficking operation that police say earned traffickers $1.4 million per year. Pictured is $30,000 in cash, handguns and drugs seized. 4. Roger Eugene Cantrell, 52, of Gainesville 5. Hyziher Consuela Glenn, 41, of Gainesville 6. Erica Nicole Glenn, 47, of Gainesville 7. Nikki Yashica Glenn, 46, of Gainesville 8. Juan Tereman Hender son, 40, of Flowery Branch 9. Peyton Renia Hood, 39, of Gainesville - already in custody at Gwinnett County Jail 10. Anthony Tyrone Jones, 47, of Gainesville 11. Ramone Perez Rowe, 40, of Gainesville 12. Vinson Edward Rucker, 42, of Gainesville 13. Antwane Sintell Thur mond, 39, of Gainesville 14. Vanessa Diane Thomp son, 53, of Gainesville A FIRST FOR HERNIA SURGERY IN GEORGIA. As Georgia’s first accredited Hernia Surgery Center of Excellence, Northeast Georgia Medical Center offers you access to the most advanced robotic and minimally invasive surgical techniques for hernia repair - right here at home. Our team of experienced surgeons are nationally recognized by Surgical Review Corporation for their commitment to improving the quality of care for patients who undergo hernia surgery. Northeast Georgia Medical Center HERNIA CENTER Find a surgeon with Georgia’s first accredited Hernia Surgery Center of Excellence at nghs.com/hernia-center
