Drug Dealers Used Home Of Woman With Alzheimer's: Police

MARIETTA, GA — The city police broke up a drug operation Monday that was based in the home of a woman with Alzheimer's disease, according to a media report. Three men are facing felony drug charges, and two of them have been charged with elder exploitation, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The Marietta police seized 65 grams of methamphetamine, along with heroin, marijuana and drug paraphernalia, from the woman's home in the 100 block of Chicopee Drive, the police said in a statement. They also arrested John Franklyn, Gordon Hobday and Thomas Summers, who were found inside the home with the suspected narcotics.

Franklyn faces felony charges of trafficking methamphetamine and heroin possession, and he also faces a misdemeanor marijuana charge, the AJC reported. Hobday and Summers were charged with felony methamphetamine possession. (SIGN UP: Get Patch's Daily Newsletter and Real Time News Alerts. Or, if you have an iPhone, download the free Patch app.)

Franklyn and Hobday also were charged with elder exploitation. A Marietta police spokesman told the AJC that Franklyn and Hobday were running a drug operation out of the elderly woman's home, and she did not understand what was going on.

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