STATESBORO, Ga. () – The Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) is ending their week with a second drug bust where they seized a sack-full of counterfeit pills Thursday night.

Investigators were tipped off about a house on Johnson Street where they say 47-year-old Dryan Bartley and 43-year-old Marqueles Dennis were storing and selling drugs.

“Nobody lived at the residence from what we could tell, they would only show up at certain times to do business and then nobody would be there,” said Lieutenant Jake Saxon with BCSO’s Crime Suppression Team.

He said before Dennis and Bartley could finish flushing what they had down the toilet; authorities found a half pound of pills they believe to contain bath salts and fentanyl, along with an ounce of cocaine and some marijuana.

“We move to take swift action to apprehend those people because we don’t want that stuff in Bulloch County,” said Saxon.

He told the neighborhood where they were found has a long history of crime and drug activity, but he said, regardless, fentanyl isn’t so much of a local problem as a national one. 

“We’ve seen many overdose related deaths,” said Saxon. “It ruins people’s lives and it’s very dangerous for anybody to be involved in it.”

Bartley is facing drug trafficking charges, along with the multiple possession charges he and Dennis share. Bartley has also been charged with cruelty to animals, for a dog they said he had chained up outside without any food or water.

They have been booked into the Bulloch County Jail where they are being questioned.