EKB News

Less than a year after being released from prison a Perry County man is once again facing jail time on drug trafficking charges. 52 year old Lonnie W. Standafer was arrested Tuesday at his home in the Vicco community following a two-week investigation by Operation UNITE. UNITE detectives, assisted by the Perry County Sheriff¹s Office and Hazard Police Department served a search warrant on Standafer’s house, which yielded 45 Methadone pills, 89 Xanax and $2,000 in cash, according to Mike Luttrell manager of UNITE’s Kentucky River Drug Task Force. Standafer was arrested on charges of first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance, third-degree trafficking in a controlled substance and being a persistent felony offender. According to officials Standafer was on three years supervised release after having served 41 months on a federal drug-trafficking conviction. While detectives were conducting the search they answered a telephone call from a man saying he had 50 Lorcet pills for sale and they arranged for him to come to the home. Police charged 50-year-old Michael W. Sumner, of Vicco, with second-degree trafficking in a controlled substance. Both men were lodged in the Kentucky River Regional Detention Center.