Note: The following press release was provided by the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office. – KtE
TRENTON — On October 22nd 2025, a Dade County jury convicted Tyler Blake Gamble, 32, of Trafficking Fentanyl and Possession of Fentanyl with Intent to Distribute after a three-day trial in the Superior Court of Dade County.
The evidence presented at trial showed that Gamble, who was on parole for a Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Distribute conviction out of Cobb County, was under investigation for selling several ounces of methamphetamine to a buyer in DeKalb County, Alabama on April 17, 2024.
Agents with the DeKalb County Narcotics and Criminal Interdiction Unit shared intelligence with Commander Casey York of the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force. Acting on that information, Commander York obtained and executed a search warrant for Gamble’s Trenton residence
that same day.
When agents entered the home, Gamble was present and found carrying 47 pressed fentanyl tablets and $6,370 in cash in his pants pocket. Gamble admitted he was out of methamphetamine because he had sold it all earlier that day and told agents he planned to “re-up” from his Atlanta supplier the next morning. He further confessed to trafficking methamphetamine into Dade County on a regular basis.
Testing by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab confirmed the fentanyl tablets weighed 4.8 grams, a trafficking amount under Georgia law. During arguments, Defense Attorney Walt Moffitt called the State’s case “weak.” But a Dade County jury strongly disagreed — returning guilty verdicts.
Immediately after the verdict, Superior Court Judge Chris Arnt sentenced Gamble to 40 years, with 25 years to serve in the Georgia Department of Corrections. The case was investigated by Commander Casey York of the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force and prosecuted by Chief Assistant District Attorney Deanna Reisman.
District Attorney Clayton M. Fuller praised the verdict, the sentence, and the teamwork behind it: “This community won today thanks to the relentless work of Commander York, our Drug Task Force, and the citizens who stood up and said, ‘Not here.’ Gamble thought he was holding all the cards. The jury called his bluff. When you gamble with people’s lives in Dade County, you’ll find out real quick — here justice never folds.”
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