SALYERSVILLE, Ky. — A Magoffin County deputy who spotted a wanted man on an ATV Monday ended up taking him and his passenger to jail on drug trafficking charges.
The deputy was returning from another call around 8 p.m. Monday, when he spotted John Riley Montgomery, 46, and Corrina Joann Ratliff, 45, both of Salyersville, sitting on an ATV next to Route 378. The deputy knew Montgomery to be wanted on outstanding warrants, so he stopped to tell him he would have to take him in.
As the officer was taking him to the front of his police car to search him, he said he saw Montgomery throw a bag into a nearby ditch. The deputy immediately cuffed him and called in backup to help him search for the thrown item.
Following a search of the bag, the ATV and both occupants, police found three bags containing more than 32 grams of meth combined, a bottle of 66 hydrocodone and various types of paraphernalia.
Both Montgomery and Ratliff were arrested and charged with trafficking in meth and opiates trafficking and possession of drug paraphernalia. Montgomery was also charged with marijuana possession and persistent felony offender.
Both were lodged in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville.
