By Samantha Swindler / Managing Editor
In three separate cases over the past week, Corbin police arrested three suspected drug traffickers.
On Saturday, police arrested Jeannie Elizabeth Taylor, 54, of Corbin, who was allegedly cooking and selling meth and prescription narcotics while baby-sitting her grandson.
“We’ve been working it for months,” said Sgt. Glenn Taylor. “We were watching, kind of keeping track of the residence after we’d seen quite a bit of activity going on. We used an informant with an undercover officer at the residence.”
According to police, the informant and officer were able to purchase hydrocodone (Lorcet) pills from Ms. Taylor and returned with a search warrant on Saturday.
“We found meth right off the bat, in a coffee filter,” Sgt. Taylor said. “That means it’s being made fresh because they’ve got to strain it through a coffee filter. We got to looking, and we found the lab in the bathroom, under the sink. It was a big one-step lab in a jar... We found another gram of meth in the bedroom, along with more pills and more stuff to make it with.”
The pills, he said, were sent to the Kentucky State Police crime lab for testing, but are believed to be morphine. The substance believed to be meth field tested positive for anhydrous ammonia, an ingredient in the drug, Sgt. Taylor said.
Ms. Taylor had been watching her 3-year-old grandson when police arrived at the home, and social services were contacted for the child’s care.
Ms. Taylor has a prior conviction from 2005, when she pleaded guilty to facilitation to manufacturing meth, according to police.
“With the new laws with having children in the house, endangering the welfare of a child with cooking the meth, that’s an A felony, that’s 10 to 20 (years incarceration,)” Sgt. Taylor said.
According to online jail records, Ms. Taylor was charged with first-degree possession of a controlled substance, unlawful possession of a meth precursor, manufacturing meth, controlled substance endangerment to a child, knowingly possessing anhydrous ammonia with the intent to manufacture meth, knowingly possessing anhydrous ammonia in an other-than-approved container, first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance, and trafficking a controlled substance within 1,000 yards of a school.
In a separate incident, Corbin police arrested Jeffrey “Bones” Dale Robbins, 47, of Corbin, on Wednesday following an alleged controlled purchase of hydrocodone. Robbins was arrested near his home on Browning Acres Road after an informant reportedly purchased about six hydrocodone pills from him.
According to online jail records, Robbins was charged with second-degree trafficking in a controlled substance.
Sunday night, Troy Dugglins Carr, 37, of Hidden Valley Road, was arrested for allegedly selling prescription pills and marijuana. A search of his home following a controlled buy found about 40 Lorcet pills, 2.8 ounces of marijuana and a “large sum of money,” according to police.
According to online jail records, he was charged with drug paraphernalia, prescription controlled substance not in original container, second-degree trafficking in a controlled substance, trafficking in marijuana, second-degree possession of a controlled substance, and possession of marijuana.
