Crime & Safety

LOOK: Patrol Car Video of Adairsville Drug Bust

Officers were assaulted and shots were fired during the incident at a Bartow County restaurant north of Cartersville.

Adairsville police have released video footage—from a patrol car dashboard camera—of an alleged drug bust last week at Hardee's on Princeton Boulevard. 

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Police Chief Robert Jones said several of his officers were assaulted Tuesday while trying to arrest two alleged drug dealers. They had been tipped off to "an illicit drug transaction (that) was about to occur" in the restaurant parking lot.


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