HARLAN COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - Appalachia Narcotics Investigations arrested two men suspected of bringing hundreds of prescription pills into Harlan County.
Kentucky State Police arrested James Graham, 47, of Bell County Friday. They found more than 100 Oxycodone pills in his vehicle. Graham was also carrying a semi-automatic pistol on his hip and had another pistol under his seat. He is a former police officer.
A major drug ring bust in Hardin County leads to the arrest of eight suspected high-ranking players in the distribution of crystal meth.
One of the suspects was already behind bars, charged in a deadly drunk driving crash.
LONDON, Ky.—A federal jury in London has convicted a doctor, his wife and their clinic of drug trafficking, health care fraud and money laundering, for orchestrating a scheme in which they made millions of dollars by unlawfully prescribing large amounts of prescription pills to citizens of eastern Kentucky.