I-Team: Man behind drug operation targeting metro Atlanta kids pleads guilty

By Randy Travis
Published March 1, 2022

DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. - Four years after the FOX 5 I-Team exposed a drug network targeting metro high schools, the mastermind pleaded guilty in Douglas County.

Addae Simmons, 24, admitted selling drug-infused snacks twice to an undercover Douglasville police officer. Simmons originally refused to even acknowledge his own name in court, claiming he was not subject to its jurisdiction.

But the so-called "Sovereign Citizen" defense actually made things even worse for the Fairburn man.

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