By Tim Eberly
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A Gwinnett County man who taught aspiring drug dealers in the North Georgia mountains the craft of cooking methamphetamine was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison.
Authorities who investigated Randall Lane Scott, 49, of Sugar Hill describe him as a dangerous teacher largely responsible for meth labs that popped up all over North Georgia between 2000 and 2004, including the largest meth bust in the history of Lumpkin County.
To this day, meth dealers who get locked up in North Georgia credit Scott with showing them the ropes of cooking meth, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Scott also has been ordered to pay $13,016 to the Drug Enforcement Administration for the cost of cleaning up several meth labs.
Four other men, including Scott’s son, were sent to prison in the case.
Jeremy Scott, 25, received a 10-year sentence; Paul Wright Belflower, 53, of Dahlonega was sentenced to 20 years; Michael Graham Seagraves, 40, of Flowery Branch was sentenced to 12 1/2 years; and Bradley Thomas Veach, 28, of Breman, Ala., was sentenced to 10 years.
The case against Randall Scott and his accomplices began to unfold in February 2002, when GBI agents raided one of their meth labs in a building in downtown Canton.
Two months later, Veach led authorities to Scott after getting arrested with a vehicle full of meth materials. Veach admitted that he was helping Scott and his son cook meth in Lumpkin County.
After agents took down the lab in Lumpkin County, they moved on to another in a Hall County storage unit.
When agents were there, Scott and his son arrived — both of them carrying meth.
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