Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Letcher Jury Renders Quick Verdict
A Letcher County jury needed only one hour yesterday, to find a Whitesburg man guilty of drug trafficking. The jury recommended that 39-year-old Larry Fields, of Sand Lick Road in Whitesburg, receive four years in prison on a charge of second-degree trafficking in a controlled substance. Fields was arrested by Operation UNITE in April of 06. During the day and a half trial before Circuit Judge Sam Wright, Assistant Commonwealth¹s Attorney Kevin Mullins presented evidence that Fields had had sold Hydrocodone to undercover detectives, leading to the guilty verdict. Fields still faces two additional charges of trafficking in marijuana within 1,000 yards of a school.
# posted by Justin Mullins @ 11:53 AM 
