Suspects in Macon ‘trap house’ ring plead guilty, face prison and $46M fines
The last defendent of a dozen people from Macon and Atlanta pleaded guilty Wednesday to organizing an armed “trap house” and drug ring off Pio Nono Avenue, according to the Middle District of Georgia’s U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Eddie Reese, a 53-year-old Macon man who was accused of leading the scheme, said “‘everyone in Macon would be dead’” if local overdoses were connected to drugs from his “trap house” on Richard Street, according to a news release from prosecutors Wednesday.
The FBI intercepted a series of phone calls of Reese discussing plans with an Atlanta-based drug-supplier in October and November 2023, the release said. The phone calls also showed Reese paid people to work shifts selling cocaine from the Macon house, prosecutors said.
The FBI investigated the “violent drug trafficking organization” for two years, said Paul Brown, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta.
In a Nov. 20, 2023 raid called “Operation Mobile Order,” investigators served 11 search warrants across Macon, Warner Robins and Atlanta. They found cocaine, 26 guns and more than $93,000 at the house, which sat on Richard Street off Pio Nono and Montpelier avenues, Brown said in the release.
Prison, fines
Reese and 11 other people ranging in age from 28 to 52 years old pleaded guilty to various drug-related charges connected to the scheme, court records show. Their plea hearings occurred between June 2025 and Wednesday.
They each face decades to life in prison, and $46 million in total fines, according to court records. They await sentencing dates which have not yet been confirmed, court records show.
