SIX.
NEW INFORMATION NOW, TWO
PEOPLE ARE OPERATING WITH WHAT
IS A LARGE PILL OPERATION.
IT WAS HAPPENING INSIDE THEIR
HOME IN THE BEREA AREA.
TONIGHT WE FIND ASIA WILSON
WITH MORE DETAILS.
Reporter: OFFICERS SAY THIS
IS THE HOME WHERE THEY
ARRESTED THOSE TWO PEOPLE.
IT IS OFF NORTH OAKS FOREST
DRIVE.
THEY SAY WHEN THEY GOT HERE
THEY FOUND HUNDREDS OF
FINISHED PILLS MADE BY THESE
TWO PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN
MANUFACTURING THESE DRUGS AND
USING A MACHINE.
GREENVILLE COUNTY
INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY USED A
DESKTOP-TYPE PILL PRESS
MACHINE OUT OF THEIR HOME.
THEY SAY THE SUSPECTS USED THE
MACHINE TO MAKE THE TABLET
FORM OF HEROIN, FENTANYL AND
METH.
INVESTIGATORS TELL US THOSE
DRUGS WERE SOLD ACROSS
GREENVILLE COUNTY.
INVESTIGATORS HAVE BEEN
FOLLOWING THIS CASE FOR AWHILE
UNTIL THEY WERE RECENTLY
ALLOWED TO ARREST BIGBY AWAY
FROM THE HOME.
THEY FOUND POWER AND RESIDUE
FROM THE DRUGS AND THEY FOUND
MORE THAN 500 FINISHED PILLS,
MONEY AND OTHER THINGS.
THEY HAD TO CALL THE SOUTH
CAROLINA NATIONAL GUARD CIVIL
RESPONSE TEAM TO HELP.
THEY ARE VERY HOT, ILLICIT
DRUGS.
IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO KILL
PEOPLE AND WE TAKE THAT
SERIOUSLY.
Reporter: I AM TOLD BOTH
SUSPECTS FACE TRAFFICKING
AND -- TRAFFICKING IN
METHAMPHETAMINE AND
TRAFFICKING IN HEROIN.
IN GREENVILLE COUNTY, ANGEL
WILSON, 7 NEWS.
DEPUTIES TELL US THE PEOPLE
INVOLVED IN THIS CASE COULD
FACE A MINIMUM OF 10 YEARS FOR
EACH OF THE CHARGES THEY NOW
