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Friday, April 13, 2012  Updated with video; The Albany-Dougherty Drug Unit executed a search warrant Friday on a house at 624 16th Avenue in Albany.

Wednesday, April 04, 2012  Updated with video; The Albany  Dougherty Drug Unit says they arrested a Worth Co. Sheriff's Deputy after witnessing him selling oxycodone .

Friday, February 04, 2011  Albany Drug Unit Commander Bill Berry says he’s never seen anything like what happened at last week’s drug raid in his 35 years as a police officer. But he’s not talking about the raid itself.

Thursday, January 27, 2011  Police say they arrested 35-year-old Jason Henry Griffin and 25-year-old Brittany Amber Sizemore for the theft of an 18-food flatbed trailer, and while they were there found drug paraphernalia.

Friday, September 24, 2010  Columbus attorney Mark Shelnutt, acquitted in November by a federal jury on charges of money laundering, attempted bribery and making false statements, was arrested by GBI agents on accusations he provided prescription drugs to a confidential informant.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010  Officials say shortly after 3 a.m. the alarm sounded twice at the Fred’s store on Philema Road. Lee County Sheriff Reggie Rachals says after the second alarm sounded, deputies made their way into the store.