Knott County Man Sentenced to 190 Months for Methamphetamine Trafficking

PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Pippa Passes, Ky., man, Brandy Slone, 42, was sentenced to 190 months in federal prison on Monday, by U.S. District Judge Robert Wier, for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.

According to his guilty plea agreement, beginning in November 2020, Slone developed a relationship with a supplier from whom he regularly obtained multi-ounce quantities of methamphetamine, and over the course of the next two years, obtained and sold significant amounts of drugs in the Knott County area.  At sentencing the Court also found that Slone had possessed and trafficked a firearm; he had attempted to smuggle drugs into the Pike County Jail, after his arrest; and that he was responsible for dealing more than five kilograms of methamphetamine.  

Under federal law, Slone must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence; and upon his release, he will be under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for five years. 

Carlton S. Shier, IV, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Shawn Morrow, Special Agent in Charge, ATF, Louisville Field Office; and Col. Phillip Burnett, Commissioner, Kentucky State Police, jointly announced the sentence.

The investigation was conducted by ATF and KSP.  The United States was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Drew Trimble.

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