NE Ga police briefs: drug arrests, rabies alert, fire investigation

The Elbert County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrests of three accused methamphetamine traffickers: 24 year-old Brandon Mercado and 58 year-old Jerry Mitchell are from Elberton; Shannon Human is 24 years old, from Bowman.

There is a rabies alert for Hall County, the first of 2020: Hall County Animal Control says a rabid raccoon tangled with two dogs in Murrayville.

Investigators now say a woman whose body was found in a home that burned in Habersham County did not die in the fire: Alecia Stover was 43 years old; from Alto. Her body was found on March 7, hours before 30 year-old Jeremy Chastain was arrested. He has since been charged in her murder. The Habersham County Coroner’s Office says Stover appears to have died from blunt force trauma to the head.