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::, "!, units, his guilty plea. ment on January 8,
,By Cecil Lawson As a part of a plea Amos was remand- which was held in
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, agreement offered ed into custody to Montgomery Coun-
Ii' cecil@kynewsgroup.com by the Common- the Montgomery ty. Twice over the
I:A Sharpsburg man wealth's Attorney's County Regional Jail course of the year,
arrested nearly a Office, Amos' origi- following his sign- in July and again in
, year ago as part of nal charges of with ing his plea in open September, he was
" :','a state police drugone count of traffick- court before Circuit arrested for failing
:'round up had pled ing in a controlled Judge Beth Maze. to appear for manda-
guilty to his charges substance, first de- Amos was among tory drug tests after
[" and was recently sen-gree, first offense; sixteen people ar- being released on
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t' tenced to five years,fleeing/evading po- rested in the early $10,000 surety bond.
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,' Jeffrey Amos, 45, lice, second degree; part of this year as His private attor-
"pled guilty in Bath two counts of pos- part of a Kentucky ney, Tammie Had-
! Circuit Court on Oct. session of marijuana; State Police drug dix, also withdrew
i 3 and was sentenced and one count of round -up focused from his case in July.
on Nov. 7 to the possession of drug around the Sharps- He was represented
charge of trafficking paraphernalia, were burg community, for the remainder
in a controlled sub-
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amended to the sin- Amos originally of his case by Blaze
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Photo courtesy of Montgomery Co. Regional Jail
Jeffrey Amos
~ Photo courtesy of Montgomery Co. Regional Jail
Michael Martin
By Cecil Lawson
KyNewsGroup
cecU@kynewsgroup.com
Montgomery County Re-
gional Jail, he tested posi-
tive for THC (marijuana),
cocaine, oxycodone, and
Suboxone, and he was
manded into custody.
Martin had been indicted
in Bath Circuit Court in
February 2013 for drug
trafficking charges and
had pled guilty to amended
charges on Oct. 3 and was
sentenced on Nov. 7
Martin was originally
arrested by Owingsville
Police Chief Todd Tout on
Nov. 7, 2012, at the Owing
ville Valero gas station and
was arrested by officers was charged with one count
from Probation and Parole of trafficking in a controlled
on Thursday, Nov. 21, after substance, first degree,
session 214 Oxycodone pills
and 40 Alprazaolm pills. It
was later determined that
he had purchased them the
day before in Maryland.
Martin's case was first
heard in Bath District
Court but was remanded
to the Bath Grand Jury on
December 13, 2012.
However, Marlin was
freed from custody after
60 days because the grand
jury could not find suffi-
cient evidence for an indict-
ment due to lab tests not
being returned from the
Kentucky State Police.
The grand jury returned
an indiclment against Mar-
tin in February 7, 2013.
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A Frenchburg man who
. was recently given a three
: year diverted sentence for
possession of over 200 Oxy-
codone pills was arrested
Thursday for violating the
:: conditions of his release.
According to court re-
! .cords, Michael Martin, 23,
he was found in possession first offense; trafficking in a Martin was also found to
of a '%Vhizzinator" when he controlled substance, third have a positive drug screen
reported for his pre-sen- degree; possession of a on that same date, and he
tencing investigation, controlled substance not in
The Whizzinator is a de- original container; and
vice used to defeat drug session of drug parapher-
tests that sometimes in- nafia.
cludes "clean" urine and a Chief Tout discovered
false male organ. " that Martin had in his
When drug tested, .......................
was once again taken into
custody.
Martin was released in
March following a family
member posting a $10,000
surety bond and on condi-
tion that Martin received
outpatient drug addiction
treatment.
Following continuances
of his case from March
through May, Martin failed
to appear for a May court
appearance, and a bench
warrant was issued. FoP
lowing an August 15 pre
trial conference, in which
no plea agreement was
reached and the case was
set to proceed to trial, Judge
Beth Maze filed an order
the following day that the
trial would be continued.
Martin pled guilty to
amended charges in 0ct
ber as part the Common-
wealth's plea agreement.
His first degree trafficking
charge would be amended
to first degree possession
of a controlled substance,
which carries a penalty of 2
years; and his third degree
trafficking charge would be
amended to third
