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(2003)] (Citations omitted). A claim that the evidence was not sufficient to prove venue in the trial court is a procedural matter which is waived if not raised in the defendant’s direct appeal of his conviction. Shields, 276 Ga. at 670.” Edmond v. State, 283 Ga. 507, 661 S.E.2d 520 (May 19, 2008). At defendant’s murder trial, evidence was sufficient to establish venue: “evidence that the victim was last seen alive in Floyd County and that her blood was found in a motel room in Floyd County was sufficient to establish that the crimes might have been committed in Floyd County.” Accord, Bulloch v. State , 293 Ga. 179, 744 S.E.2d 763 (June 17, 2013) (venue proper in Harris County where evidence indicated victim was beaten there, though his body was found near a road in Meriwether County). Bell v. State, 291 Ga.App. 169, 661 S.E.2d 207 (April 4, 2008). Evidence was sufficient to establish venue for drug charge, but not obstruction charge. Officers watched defendant participate in an apparent drug buy in a parking lot in Glynn County. Officers then followed defendant’s vehicle and stopped it “a short distance away.” Defendant resisted arrest, attempted to flee, and was charged with obstruction. A search revealed drugs in the car and on his person. “There was evidence that Bell possessed the cocaine when he was stopped and arrested; that the officers who made the stop and arrest observed Bell in the vehicle from the time the vehicle entered the Burger King parking lot in Glynn County until they made the stop, and that Bell admitted he was in possession of the cocaine found on his person at the stop. While this was not direct proof that Bell also possessed the cocaine while he was in the parking lot in Glynn County just prior to the stop and arrest, it was sufficient as circumstantial proof to eliminate every reasonable hypothesis save that Bell possessed the cocaine in the parking lot, and was thus sufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Bell trafficked in cocaine in Glynn County, as charged. OCGA § 24-4-6; Chapman [ v. State, 275 Ga. 314, 317-318 (565 S.E.2d 442) (2002)]. Because all the evidence showed that the obstruction offense occurred at the location of the stop and arrest, and there was no evidence that this location was in Glynn County, as charged, it follows that the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that venue for this offense was properly laid in Glynn County. Accordingly, the conviction for misdemeanor obstruction of a law enforcement officer must be reversed. Jones v. State, 272 Ga. 900, 904 (537 S.E.2d 80) (2000).” Payne v. State, 290 Ga.App. 589, 660 S.E.2d 405 (March 26, 2008). Evidence was sufficient to prove venue: child molestation victim’s out-of-court statements, admitted under Child Hearsay Statute, indicated that acts occurred in her bedroom; nurse’s notes indicated that the home was in Douglas County. Affirmed on different issue, 290 Ga.App. 589, 660 S.E.2d 405 (March 26, 2008). In re: J.B., 289 Ga.App. 617, 658 S.E.2d 194 (February 14, 2008). Adjudications of delinquency reversed and remanded for failure to prove venue. “In the instant case, the relevant county, Liberty County, was never mentioned by any witness. The closest that venue identification occurred was a mention of a crime scene address as ‘316 Palmer Lane.’ That instance was unaccompanied by any mention of a city, county, or state. Other location identifications were just as, or even more, inadequate: ‘BP store’; ‘Ms. Boyd’s house’; ‘806 Shadow Walk Lane’; and ‘Raintree Apartments.’” “‘[C]ontrary to the State’s assertion otherwise, can find no indication in the record that the juvenile court took judicial notice of the fact that Hinesville is located in Liberty County. Indeed, ‘if a trial court intends to take judicial notice of any fact, it must first announce its intention to do so on the record, and afford the parties an opportunity to be heard regarding whether judicial notice should be taken.’ Graves v. State, 269 Ga. 772, 775(4) (504 S.E.2d 679) (1998).” In re: B.R., 289 Ga.App. 6, 656 S.E.2d 172 (December 14, 2007). Whole court opinion reverses juvenile’s adjudication of delinquency; evidence was insufficient to prove venue beyond a reasonable doubt. Proof that responding officers were with county sheriff’s office is not sufficient to establish venue. Based on Thompson v. State , 277 Ga. 102, 586 S.E.2d 231 (September 15, 2003), and King v. State , 271 Ga.App. 384, 609 S.E.2d 725 (January 25, 2005) both below . Accord, In re: J.B ., 289 Ga.App. 617, 658 S.E.2d 194 (February 14, 2008); Grant (March 12, 2014), above . Mikell dissents, would create bright-line rule “that unambiguous trial evidence that one or more of the investigating officers was employed by the county in which venue is laid is sufficient, in the absence of conflicting evidence, to sustain a jury verdict beyond a reasonable doubt.” See also Twitty (November 2, 2015), above (rule questioned, but clearly not applicable where body found at different location from known site of fatal injury). West v. State, 288 Ga.App. 566, 654 S.E.2d 463 (November 26, 2007). Venue for defendant’s prosecution for possession of marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamine was proper in county where defendant tested positive by urinalysis. “According to West, the State offered no evidence that he possessed these substances in Cherokee County before ingesting them. Under OCGA § 17-2-2(h), however, ‘if in any case it cannot be determined in what county a crime was committed, it shall be considered to have been committed in any county in which the evidence shows beyond a reasonable doubt that it might have been committed.’ This statute applies ‘when a drug possession charge results from the detection