Cobb Residents Indicted in Drug Trafficking Ring Bust

Five Cobb County residents 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.

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, Nancy Veronica Bravo, 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. Bravo, 29, of Kennesaw has been charged with 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 and remains behind bars.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.