CJ Staff Report
Several defendants appeared in Pulaski Circuit Court last week.
According to a press release from Commonwealth’s Attorney Eddy F. Montgomery, William Conley Barnes, 29, of Somerset appeared in circuit court Thursday and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for two counts of first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance.
According to Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney David L. Dalton, an informant with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department purchased an 80-mg Oxycontin pill from Barnes for $110 on May 14, 2009.
The sheriff’s department then executed a search warrant at Barnes’ residence on Hail Knob Road on June 17, 2009, where $1,500 in cash and more than 400 narcotics pills with an estimated value of $1,400 were reportedly recovered.
Below are other defendants who appeared in circuit court last week:
• David Jones, 60, of Somerset was sentenced to five years in prison for first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance. According to Montgomery, Jones purchased $100 of methamphetamine from a confidential informant with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department in July 2009.
• Brian Roark, 31, of Somerset was sentenced to one year in prison for unlawful possession of a methamphetamine precursor. According to Dalton, Roark was found to be in possession of meth precursors in May 2009.
• Melissa Carmen Woods, 32, of Somerset was sentenced to five years in prison for felony theft by unlawful taking.
According to Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Jeremy Bartley, over a four-month period in 2008, Woods reportedly stole thousands of dollars from her employer, the Corner Express Mart. The case was investigated by the Somerset Police Department.
• Brent A. Turner, 20, of Somerset was sentenced to three years in prison for violating the terms of his probation. According to Bartley, Turner failed to complete substance abuse treatment. Turner was originally convicted of first-degree possession of a controlled substance.
