PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Knott County man is going to prison for drug trafficking.
On Monday, US District Judge Robert Wier sentenced Brandy Slone, 42, of Pippa Passes to 190 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
According to his guilty plea agreement, beginning in November 2020, Slone developed a relationship with a supplier from whom he regularly obtained multi-ounce quantities of methamphetamine, and over the course of the next two years, obtained and sold significant amounts of drugs in the Knott County area. At sentencing the Court also found that Slone had possessed and trafficked a firearm; he had attempted to smuggle drugs into the Pike County Jail, after his arrest; and that he was responsible for dealing more than five kilograms of methamphetamine.
Upon his release, he will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for five years.