P’burg pair arrested for trafficking after being found asleep in car with minor

Mindy Gail Robinson and Keith Jones Mindy Gail Robinson and Keith Jones
Mindy Gail Robinson and Keith Jones
Mindy Gail Robinson and Keith Jones

PAINTSVILLE, Ky. — A Floyd County couple was taken to jail for drug trafficking, after police found them and a child sleeping in their car in a gas station parking lot.

A Paintsville Police officer and Johnson County sheriff’s deputy spotted the car around 2:30 Saturday morning. Inside, Mindy Gail Robinson, 46, and Keith Jones, 50, both of Prestonsburg, and the juvenile were all unconscious.

After waking them, Robinson was detained on suspicion of DUI. A search of the car then turned up several bags of meth, a Coke can with a false bottom containing a bag of marijuana, a set of digital scales and several plastic bags.

Robinson and Jones were then charged with meth and marijuana trafficking, first-degree wanton endangerment and possession of drug paraphernalia. Both remain in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville.

The child was temporarily placed in the custody of his uncle.