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September 29, 2009
BULLITT COUNTY MAN SENTENCED FOR POSSESSING LARGE QUANTITY OF METHAMPHETAMINE FOR DISTRIBUTION
– Meade County arrest led to discovery of additional methamphetamine and a pistol in defendant’s home in Bullitt County
LOUISVILLE, KY - Michael Walker, age 49, of Shepherdsville, Kentucky, in Bullitt County, was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment in United States District Court, Louisville, Kentucky, for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute it, U.S. Attorney Candace G. Hill of the Western District of Kentucky announced today. John G. Heyburn, II, Judge, United States District Court, also sentenced Walker to 5 years’ supervised release following incarceration. There is no parole in the federal judicial system.
During his guilty plea, Walker admitted that he was arrested with 109 grams of methamphetamine powder in Radcliff, Kentucky on August 8, 2008. After he was arrested, Walker agreed to allow police to search his residence in Bullitt County, where police discovered another 95 grams of methamphetamine powder, along with scales, packaging materials and a 9 millimeter semi-automatic pistol. Walker admitted that he intended to distribute the methamphetamine powder found by police. The street value of the methamphetamine powder recovered by police in this case is approximately $5,750.
The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Thomas W. Dyke, and it was investigated by the Meade County Sheriff’s Office, the Bullitt County Drug Task Force and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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