MARIETTA, Ga. — A Marietta police K-9 is getting some of the credit for helping get a large amount of drugs and guns off the streets.
Marietta police said Officer Johnson noticed some suspicious people inside a truck along Franklin Gateway and what he and K-9 Atos uncovered was astounding.
“He did great, he always does,” Johnson said about his K-9 partner. “It’s just another day at work for him."
On Sunday, Atos and his handler, Johnson, uncovered a drug operation like they had never seen before.
“We searched the vehicle and found just about everything you can imagine,” Johnson said. “It looked like a small pharmacy.”
A picture from Marietta police shows Atos next to the variety of more than 100 pills, some marijuana, cocaine, and psilocybin or psychedelic mushrooms.
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“There’s no telling who he was selling it to,” Johnson said about the suspect.
Johnson said he saw suspicious people inside of a truck on Franklin Gateway on Sunday and discovered the tag was suspended.
From there Johnson and Atos worked together to find a unique combination of drugs and guns.
“He can smell all those little baggies that we can't smell,” Johnson said about the K-9.
Police arrested Edrichus Sykes of Atlanta and Desire Scarpa of Suwanee on multiple drug and weapons charges.
Despite the arrests, the department said crime is down in the Franklin Gateway area.
“But that said, you have an interstate that goes through the heart of your city, you’re going to have things that come through the area,” said Chuck McPhilamy with the Marietta Police Department.
Atos and Johnson say they're always up for a challenge and a big arrest means big a reward.
“We find something like that, he definitely gets his toy,” Johnson said.
Both suspects remain in the Cobb County Jail.
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