By CHRIS HARRIS, CJ Staff Writer
The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Department continues its efforts to crack down on the illegal drug trade in Pulaski County, as a series of probes has led to the indictment of 20 different people on drug-related charges.
According to the sheriff’s office, the March session of a Pulaski County grand jury was presented with 20 separate cases by the sheriff’s narcotics division. The cases were the result of numerous ongoing investigations into the illegal manufacturing, possession and sale of narcotics in Pulaski County.
On March 9, those suspects — accounting for a total of 31 criminal charges — were indicted by the grand jury.
Two of those suspects were arrested Tuesday. Ronald Deroy Conatser, 33, of Somerset, was arrested and charged with first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance, and Nancy Ellen Rankin, 47, of Somerset, was arrested and charged with second-degree trafficking in a controlled substance. Both were lodged in the Pulaski County Detention Center.
Those individuals who were indicted and are currently being sought by the sheriff’s department include:
• Thomas Arthur, first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance;
• Michael D. Brumley, first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance;
• Jamie Denise Cordell, first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance;
• Heather Nicole Crabtree, two counts of first-degree manufacturing metham-phetamine, two counts of first-degree possession of a controlled substance, promoting contraband, and tampering with physical evidence;
• Jason Crabtree, second-degree trafficking in a controlled substance;
• Paul E. England, second-degree trafficking in a controlled substance;
• Jameson Charles Glover, first-degree manu-facturing methamphetamine, first-degree possession of a controlled substance, promoting contraband;
• Austin W. Harris, second-degree trafficking in a controlled substance;
• Melissa L. Hogue, first-degree complicity to trafficking in a controlled substance;
• Timothy Hogue, first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance;
• Corenna D. Johnson, first-degree manufac-turing methamphet-amine, possession of a controlled substance;
• Rodney William Johnston, second-degree trafficking in a controlled substance, and being a persistent felony offender;
• Susie G. Lewis, first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance;
• Berlin Matthew Smith, first-degree manufacturing methamphetamine, and being a persistent felony offender;
• Jessie Turner, first-degree manufacturing methamphetamine, and being a persistent felony offender;
• David Lee West, first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance;
• Justin S. Wilson, first-degree possession of a controlled substance;
• Butter Mycha Wiseman, first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance.
