Hull man sentenced to 35 years after drug bust on Danielsville Road

WUGA | By Jeff Dantre

Published July 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM EDT

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A Hull man has been sentenced to serve 35 years in prison after being caught with a large number of drugs at a gas station on Danielsville Road in Athens.

Athens Clarke County Police say 41-year-old Dwan Maurice Hewlett was lured to the location by a confidential informant. Officers recovered amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine packed in baggies. A search of cell phones that were in Hewlett’s car revealed messages indicating that he was conspiring to distribute two kilos of fentanyl just days prior to his arrest.

Hewlett had three prior convictions in Clarke Superior Court.

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Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.

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