Marcel Ave. home used to distribute drugs
Henry Trenon Ray, 44
Dentravious Warner, 24
ATLANTA -- It is never routine serving a warrant for an arrest, even though Sheriff Offices serve them on a daily basis. Proof of that is what happened when Fulton County Sheriff deputies tried to serve one last week.
They went to a home in southwest Atlanta to serve a warrant for Henry Trenon Ray, age 44. He is wanted for a probation violation by the Gwinnett County Sheriff Office. They asked Fulton County to pick him up after learning he may be at the Atlanta home.
When deputies approached the house the saw someone rush out of the back door. They stopped Dentravious Warner, age 24, even though he didn't fit Ray's description. Warner took off running and escaped. "Deputies started talking with him, the suspect took off running and the Deputies chased him for a little while," said Lt. Colonel Peter Andresen.
Deputies immediately realized they stumbled on something bigger. The home they were at wasn't a residence. "No normal furnishings were in the house," said Lt. Col. Andresen. "It looked like it was used just for the purpose to sell marijuana."
Photo Gallery: Inside a drug house
It was a business where customers walked up to a steel-bar back door to buy drugs. There was a stash hole on the door where money and drugs were passed through without opening the door.
Someone illegally tapped into an electrical box outside the home to steel power for inside the home. They found a large quantity of marijuana that was packaged for sale, ready to be exchanged. There were scales for weighing the drugs, an empty holster, and a monitor that was hooked up to a color night vision camera on the front of the house.
Lt. Col. Andresen thinks that's why Warner may have come out of the house so quickly. "We imagine that he took some things with him and probably had a chance to view us coming up on camera which is dangerous for us," he said.
Two suspects photos
Deputies are now looking for Warner and Ray, who was not at the home when they tried to serve the warrant. Anyone who might know where they are is asked to call Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404-577-TIPS(8477).