FOREST HILLS, Ky. — A Pike County man spent his holiday in jail, after an arrest Tuesday for drug trafficking.
Just before midnight Tuesday, a state trooper spotted a pickup driving along Forest Hills Road with a tail light out and a poorly-secured ATV in the back, so he pulled it over. The vehicle pulled over in front of a house the officer knew to be used for drug sales.
When talking to the driver, Austin Cecil, of Sidney, 25, he noticed digital scales on the dashboard and a piece of aluminum foil with a burn mark between the seat and door. The trooper ordered Cecil out of the car and noticed signs of impairment, as well as a bag of meth in the seat where he had been sitting.
The officer also spotted an unnatural bulge in his visible underwear, near his pelvic bone. Cecil tried to explain the bulge as body hair, but it turned out to be a bag of fentanyl.
Cecil was arrested on enhanced trafficking of meth and fentanyl, possession of drug paraphernalia, DUI and other charges. He remains in the Pike County jail, awaiting arraignment on Monday.
