PRESTONSBURG, KY. — OPERATING OFF A TIP ON THEIR ANONYMOUS TIP LINE, FLOYD COUNTY SHERIFF DEPUTIES ARRESTED THREE FROM PRESTONSBURG ON DRUG TRAFFICKING CHARGES. A TIP OF DRUGS BEING SOLD IN THE MCDONALDS PARKING LOT IN MARTIN LED DEPUTIES ALONG WITH K9 DRAGO TO RESPOND TO THE AREA. SHORTLY AFTER ARRIVING, DEPUTIES LOCATED A VEHICLE MATCHING ONE OF THE VEHICLES DRSCRIBED IN THE TIP. AS DEPUTIES WERE INTERVIEWING THE THREE OCCUPANTS, K9 DRAGO ALERTED DEPUTIES TO POSSIBLE DRUGS INSIDE THE VEHICLE. THE INVESTIGATION RESULTED IN THE DISCOVERY OF DRUGS AND DRUG PARAPHERNALIA. DEPUTIES CHARGED 37-YEAR-OLD RODNEY PORTER WITH TRAFFICKING IN METH, POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA AND TAMPERING WITH PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. 28-YEAR-OLD BARRY HUNT WAS CHARGED WITH TRAFFICKING METH, POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA, TAMPERING WITH PHYSICAL EVIDENCE AND VIOLATION OF AN EPO. ALSO ARRESTED WAS 30-YEAR-OLD TABATHA HUNT WHO WAS CHARGED WITH TRAFFICKING METH, POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA AND TAMPERING WITH PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. ALL WERE FROM CORN FORK IN PRESTSONSBURG. ALL THREE WERE LODGED IN THE FLOYD COUNTY JAIL AND MORE ARRESTS COULD BE FORTHCOMING IN THIS CASE.
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Article Updated: January 22, 2019
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