Updated 10/17/19

Seven Athens residents were arrested Friday at a "known drug house" on Hardy Street.

Limestone County sheriff's spokesman Stephen Young confirmed Tuesday a search warrant obtained by Investigator Jamie King was executed in the 700 block of Hardy Street in Athens.

King and deputies arrived to find Basil Cortlan Hicks, 29, and another man in or near a vehicle in the driveway.

The unidentified man tried to run from authorities but was apprehended a short time later, according to the arrest report. During a search of Hicks, the man and the vehicle, Young said authorities found, a bag of marijuana; marijuana joint; one Xanax pill; nine alprazolam pills; one bag of methamphetamine; three counterfeit $100 bills; two counterfeit $50 bills; three counterfeit $20 bills; two sets of digital scales; documents belonging to another individual; a .40-caliber pistol; loose ammunition; and a shotgun sawed off within legal limits.

In the residence, deputies found firearms, a child and multiple adults in possession of drug paraphernalia. According to reports, there were several plastic bags containing drug residue in the home and a meth pipe in the bedroom. Young said the Limestone County Department of Human Resources was contacted regarding the child.

Arrested at the scene were Frank Thompson Jr., 61 possession of drug paraphernalia; Rose Marie Thompson, 56, possession of drug paraphernalia; Gary Wayne Gill, 53, loitering at a known drug house; James Eddie Jefferson, 53, loitering at a known drug house; Willie Mack Turner, 59, loitering at a known drug house; Hicks, possession of a controlled substance (meth), second-degree possession of marijuana and paraphernalia (sell); and Ashton Peoples, 27, possession of a controlled substance (meth), second-degree possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.