Kennesaw Woman Indicted in Drug Trafficking Ring Bust

A Kennesaw woman is one of six people who have been indicted for their alleged participation in a drug trafficking ring that operated out of a state prison, the Cobb County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday.

Nancy Veronica Bravo, 29, has been indicted on charges of methamphetamine trafficking, marijuana possession, two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and one count of possession, of a firearm during commission of a felony for her role in the scheme.

According to the DA’s Office, state prison inmate Alejandra ‘Chino’ Javier Chaves was able to make several large sales of methamphetamine while locked up in March of 2014, using Bravo and co-defendants Wilmer Lazo Caballero, Nereida Adileny Cruz, Esther Guadarrama, and Antonia Paniague Hurtado to make the deliveries. Chaves is also accused of threatening a Cobb County Sheriff’s Office employee.

Caballero, 23, of Marietta, is also charged with obstruction of an officer and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. He is currently free on bond. Cruz, 23, of Mableton, remains in custody at the Cobb Jail. Guadarrama, 25, is additionally charged with fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer and is free on bond. Hurtado, 63, of Mableton, is free on bond.

No arraignment dates have yet been set for the defendants, the DA’s Office said.