Three Face Federal Indictments for Operating Heroin Ring

Three people from Northeast Georgia have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their part in operating a heroin distribution ring.

After a two-year joint federal-state investigation by law enforcement, the heroin network was broken up with the arrests of 45-year old Michelle Dawn Dorsey, of Demorest, 28-year old Nigel Alan Waddell, of Cornelia, and 26-year old Tyler Josiah Matthews, of Cleveland.

According to a press release issued Monday by the Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office, Matthews, Waddell and Dorsey were arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Clay Fuller last week.

Dorsey, Waddell, Matthews and a fourth person, 42-year old Derrik Omar Frazier, 42, of Stone Mountain, were indicted by a federal grand jury on July 12, 2017.

According to U.S. Attorney Horn, Dorsey, Waddell, Matthews and Frazier allegedly conspired to distribute heroin in North Georgia.

Dorsey and Waddell sold quantities of heroin in White and Habersham Counties.

They obtained the heroin primarily from Frazier.

Matthews worked for Dorsey and was responsible for transporting heroin from Frazier’s residence in Stone Mountain, Georgia, to Dorsey’s residence in Demorest.

A break in the case came when one of their buyers overdosed on the herion they got from Dorsey but was revived after being given Naloxone by EMS personnel.

Those victims, who were not charged, identified their suppliers to authorities.

Appalachian Regional Drug Enforcement Office spokesman Mitchell Posey tells WNEG News the case is still under investigation.

So far, no trial date for the four has been set in federal court.