Veterans football assistant arrested on drug charges

By Michael A. Lough

The Sports Report

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          First-year assistant Kierron Smith of Veterans was among people arrested Sunday on drug charges in Ben Hill County.

          Smith is in his first year at Veterans as a defensive line coach and teacher, of interrelated math. That’s according to the school’s “schooinsites” page’s appearance on Google, with a short line on his bio. But that information doesn’t appear on the full bio page.

Photo: Ben Hill Sheriff’s Office

          The Ben Hill County Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Division executed a search warrant on a home in Fitzgerald on March 1 in a case that, according to WALB, began in January. The law enforcement group had information that Smith was allegedly moving pounds of marijuana into the county.

Deputies seized 1.28 pounds of pot, three handguns, and more than $4,800 in cash, among other items.

Media reports in the area – including misspelling his first name, repeated by some Central Georgia outlets - only named Smith, not the other suspects facing charges of, among others, possession with intent to distribute.

Smith graduated from Fitzgerald and earned all-state honors and headed to Georgia Southern as a walk-on who earned a scholarship before transferring to Tennessee State.