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Virginia Louise Swan appeals after she was convicted by a jury of trafficking in methamphetamine OCGA § 16-13-31, violating the Georgia Controlled Substances Act OCGA § 16-13-30 and contributing to the delinquency of a minor OCGA § 16-12-1. We affirm. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict,1 the evidence showed that on July 28, 2004, five to six agents from the Cherokee County Multi-Agency Narcotics Squad “C-MANS” arrived at Swan’s house to ask for consent to search. While the officers waited for someone to answer their knock, they observed a small surveillance camera mounted above the door. Swan answered the door and invited the officers inside. Swan told them that her boyfriend was inside the house, and they asked her to find him. As Swan led the officers through the house to the master bedroom, she yelled out that the police were there to do a search. The bedroom door was locked, and Swan knocked on it. After approximately one minute, the door was opened, and the officers were able to see a man lying on the bed. This man, Gary Reece, was later indicted as Swan’s co-defendant. Also in the bedroom was a video monitor displaying a view of the door they had entered. One of the officers asked if there was anyone else in the house, and Swan led them to her daughter’s bedroom. As they walked to that bedroom, Swan again yelled out that they were conducting a search. The officers determined that Swan’s 21-year-old daughter and a 14-year-old boy were also in the house.

A subsequent search of the master bedroom revealed a black PVC pipe, inside of which officers found a number of baggies containing methamphetamine. Officers also found a set of digital scales in the bedroom and “a glass pipe that appeared to have been used to smoke methamphetamine.” Police later determined that the methamphetamine had a combined weight of 83.03 grams.

 
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