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3 arrested on meth charges in Decatur County including 72-year-old man

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Posted at 3:36 PM, Sep 25, 2020
and last updated 2020-09-25 16:36:24-04

DECATUR COUNTY, Tenn. (WTVF) — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation arrested and charged three men on meth charges in Decatur County one of them is 72 years old.

TBI officials began their investigation into reports of meth being sold in the county on Nov. 2019.

On Sept. 15, a Decatur County Grand Jury indicted 54-year-old David Jackson, 42-year-old Jody Jowers and 73-year-old Kenneth Peace on multiple drug counts. The next day, Jackson and Jowers were served with arrest warrants while being held in the Decatur County Jail on unrelated counts.

Jackson was charged with five counts of manufacture, delivery, sale or possession of meth. Jowers was charged with three counts of the same charge.

On Sept. 18, TBI agents and deputies arrested Peace. He was booked into the Decatur County Jail on six counts of the same charge. A judge released all three men on their own recognizance on these charges.