DEA Investigates Carnesville Home for Drug Activity

Authorities looking for a possible connection to an illegal drug operation swarmed a Carnesville house earlier this week.

It happened Tuesday evening at a home on Keller Road off SR320.

Neighbors say several Franklin County Sheriff’s deputies and agents with the DEA descended on a home occupied by a Hispanic family and were there for some time.

Franklin County Sheriff Stevie Thomas said it was part of a larger drug investigation by the DEA.

“DEA agents had some persons of interest (at the house) that they wanted to talk to,” Thomas said. “Our deputies went up there with them and met with the folks. They (residents of the house) consented to a search of the property, but nothing illegal was found. I think this was related to another search they conducted somewhere else.”

No one was arrested and no charges were filed against the people living at that house.  Their names have not been released.