The car was reported stolen Friday by the mother of Michael Odai Grant, a 32-year-old Athens man arr

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Following a Saturday manhattan apartment short term rentals morning stake-out of a location where suspects were disassembling a stolen muscle car, Oconee County Sheriff's deputies arrested manhattan apartment short term rentals three men on charges of operating a chop shop and drug possession.
The arrests occurred after deputies were tipped off that a 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle stolen Friday in Athens was parked south of Watkinsville in an open field off Sam Cooper Road, according to a sheriff's report.
The suspects — John Thomas Chambers, 21, of South Billups Street, Athens; Gregory Thomas, 52, of Kennedy Road, Athens; and Troy Latrell Cooper, 37, of Sam Cooper Road, Watkinsville — were all charged with operating manhattan apartment short term rentals a chop shop, possession of tools for the commission of a crime, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, possession of drug-related objects and felony theft of a motor vehicle.
The car was reported stolen Friday by the mother manhattan apartment short term rentals of Michael Odai Grant, a 32-year-old Athens man arrested Friday on numerous charges, including manhattan apartment short term rentals possession of cocaine and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, manhattan apartment short term rentals which was reported stolen.
Athens police were trying to question Grant as a suspicious person seen at Clarke Garden Apartments on Barnett Shoals manhattan apartment short term rentals Road when he ran. Grant was injured when he jumped into the Oconee River, according to the police report.
During the time officers were arresting Grant, Grant's mother called police to report her son's Chevelle was stolen from the driveway of her Lexington Heights home by two men, who loaded the vehicle onto a trailer.
When Oconee deputies were tipped off to the whereabouts of the Chevelle on a rural road, Cpl. Clark Sparrow and Sgt. Scott Underwood went to the location and found the car, according to the report. They, along with other deputies, parked nearby in concealed locations and watched as the suspects arrived and started to disassemble the car.
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