Atlanta Police Target Midtown Drug Dealers

Atlanta police have made several arrests in an attempt to stop the activities of suspected drug dealers operating among the homeless and former addicts in Midtown.

According to WSB-TV, police are looking for 17 dealers, who have been selling cocaine and marijuana to vulnerable customers in the areas of Pine and Courtland streets, near Midtown’s Emory University Hospital. Police told the station that undercover officers bought drugs from the dealers, many of whom were attempting to blend in with and exploit the area’s high homeless population; Thursday’s drug arrests occurred in an area bracketed by the Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter and St. Jude’s Recovery Center.

All told, the 17 suspects face somewhere between 50 and 60 charges