Georgia couple gets 20 years for manufacturing methamphetamine

ROME - A Catoosa County couple were each sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday on federal drug charges of manufacturing methamphetamine and endangering their children. <br> <br> Twenty-seven-year-old Suzette Callaway and 28-year-old Christopher Hicks each received 20 years in prison and three years probation. <br> <br> During the sentencing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa Tarvin displayed a large color photograph of the burned body of the couple&#39;s son, eleven-month-old Shelton Hicks. <br> <br> Shelton was injured in a February 7, 2001 fire that broke out from a pot of methamphetamine Hicks was boiling in his home. The child later died in foster care. <br> <br> Callaway and Hicks were arrested in Kentucky in July 2001. <br> <br> When Shelton died, authorities filed murder charges against the couple. They will be tried in January on those charges.