A Gwinnett County man, known in the drug trade as "Alien", who taught aspiring drug dealers in the North Georgia mountains the craft of cooking methamphetamine was sentenced Friday to 25 year 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 then GBI agent Mark McClure 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. He 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 and firearms.

 

Lumpkin County Sheriff Mark T. McClure, who was, at the time of the investigation, the GBI case agent stated,

"I was pleased with the final sentence handed down by Judge O’Kelley. Scott was instrumental in teaching numerous individuals in the North Georgia Mountains how to produce methamphetamine in clandestine laboratories. One of his labs we located in a rural area of Lumpkin County resulted in the largest Meth seizure in the counties history, with over three pounds of the illegal substance being confiscated. Scott was connected to many meth labs we worked in and around 2000 thru 2004 in this area and today some of the meth manufacturers we arrest still talk about Scott as the one who taught them or someone else they know how to "cook" this deadly substance."