From the Bronx to Georgia, a deadly trail By Marcelo Ballvé hen Georgia sheriff’s deputies arrived at a construction site on an isolated road one day last March, they found a sport utility vehicle engulfed in flames and a man they could not identify in the passenger seat wearing gold jewelry. A spokesman for the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department said last Tuesday that the dead man was Adolph Stubbs, 29, of Baychester, and announced that two men, one from the Bronx, had been arrested and charged in the murder. The spokesman, Major Bruce Jordan, said that Stubbs had been shot to death and placed in the 1999 Ford Expedition, which his killers then set on fire. Jordan identified the suspects as a Bronx man, Jed Brettschneider, 23, and Glenn Simon Hamilton, 33, a citizen of Jamaica who lives in Georgia. Stubbs, a Jamaican-born security guard who lived near Pelham Bay at 10011 Erdman Pl., had no known criminal history, a spokeswoman for the Bronx District Attorney’s Office said. But Fayette County authorities said they believed Stubbs had been involved in a multi-state drug conspiracy to sell 300 pounds of marijuana smuggled from Mexico through San Diego. Jordan said Stubbs was shot in a dispute over whether the drugs would be sold in Atlanta or New York City. The Fayette County sheriffs’ office did not know for certain that the dead man was Stubbs until two weeks ago, after four deputies traveled to the Bronx to identify and look for a mysterious suspect in Stubbs’ killing, known only as "Dread." When they found the body in the "completely burned-out shell" of the vehicle on March 31, any clues to Stubbs’ identity had been reduced to ashes with the exception of some gold jewelry recovered from the body. The man in the scorched vehicle had clearly been shot once through the head, but was so badly burned he could not be identified, Jordan said. Investigators though he might be Stubbs after they found his luggage at a nearby motel. Jordan said the Georgia investigators traveled twice to the Bronx and located Stubbs’ girlfriend during one of the trips. He said the woman, who he would not identify, recognized the gold jewelry found on the burned body. She was also interrogated about Stubbs’ activities. "That was to determine exactly why Stubbs had undertaken his trip to Georgia," Jordan said. "It led us to believe that the murder was drug-related. I don’t really want to go into the details and put her life in danger." After the New York investigation, Jordan said he released a composite sketch of the man known as "Dread" who investigators wanted to question. He said that Dread was from the Bronx but had been seen in Atlanta with Jamaicans around the time of the killing. Jordan said investigators discovered that "Dread" was Brettschneider. New York City Police arrested Brettschneider in the Bronx on April 26, and turned him over to authorities in Dutchess County, where he was wanted for jumping bail on felony counterfeiting charges, said Gary Mazzacano, senior investigator with the New York State Police. "Since he was arrested in New York State, we have first shot at him, before we ship him out to Georgia," Mazzacano said. The murder investigation concluded last Monday with the arrest of the second suspect, Hamilton. Jordan said Hamilton was taken into custody after officers found him sitting in a van in front of the Fayetteville Police Station. The station is a few blocks away from the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department. Jordan said Hamilton was waiting for friends who were visiting Dennis Wilson, a third suspect in the case, at the county jail. "He thought we didn’t know what he looked like," Jordan said. Jordan added that another suspected accomplice, Paul Hylton, of College Park, Ga., may have fled to Jamaica.