Alleged cocaine supplier behind bars

BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. - On Friday, July 24, an undercover agent with the Baldwin County Drug Task Force made a money drop to a cocaine supplier in Elberta, for cocaine previously advanced to him.

The suspect took the money and advanced the undercover agent another six ounces of cocaine. Authorities conducted surveillance on the house until they got a search warrant.

The Drug Task Force and Elberta PD executed a search warrant at the house of Robert Lynn Weatherford, 36, and his fiancée, Randi Roberts.

One quarter ounce of marijuana, three ounces of cocaine, drug paraphernalia, and $2,139 in cash was seized during the search. $600 of the cash seized was DTF buy money.

The total amount of cocaine seized is 11 ounces.

Weatherford was arrested and charged with two counts of trafficking in cocaine, second degree possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Weatherford is being held in the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Corrections Center on $2,000,000 bond.