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Record Staff Report WHITLEY CITY � The McCreary County trial ending Wednesday in which two Pine Knot brothers were convicted of drug trafficking concluded the last of 22 cases which arose out of a Kentucky State Police undercover drug investigation. The undercover investigation, which was headed by Kentucky State Police Detective Billy Correll, resulted in indictments against 32 individuals in 22 separate cases. The charges were the result of criminal activity in McCreary County which occurred in the early part of 2003. The indictments were returned in July of 2003. The brothers were convicted of first-degree Trafficking in a Controlled Substance. David Morrow was convicted by the jury and received a sentence of six years. He was a former McCreary County deputy sheriff and a Whitley County Deputy Jailer. His brother, Ernie Morrow, Jr., a retired preacher, pled guilty during the trial and received a sentence of five years. Commonwealth Attorney Allen Trimble stated, �This was by far the most ambitious and successful undercover operation which we have experienced in the 34th Judicial Circuit.� Thirty-one of the 32 defendants originally charged in the investigation were convicted either at trial or by plea. The only defendant not convicted died prior to trial. The operation was prompted by numerous complaints local officials had received regarding the illegal sale of prescription drugs in McCreary County. All of the cases charged the defendants with the illegal sale of prescription drugs. The State Police used a confidential informant and installed a video recording device in the building where the transactions occurred. Nine of the cases involved the sale of the painkiller OxyContin. The remaining cases involved many commonly prescribed painkillers including percocet, lorcet and methadone. The sentences totaled 193 years for the 31 defendants with the average sentence amounting to six-and-a-half years. For complete details see the Tuesday, April 19, 2005, Edition of The McCreary County Record. Reader Comments Curious George (ha ha) (4/27/2005) Come on folks,let's give this a man a chance,at least he seemed so sincere in this weeks paper,if I diddn't read the paper,I may have stuck with my first comment,but after reading the paper,he seems more deserving to get a second chance,way more than Mr.King did.Let's just give him 5 years probation,he shouldn't get any jail time.Heck a former preacher getting jail time,but yet a big-wig man like Mr.King getting no time at all? Hmmmm,something sure does smell funny,can't you smell that foul odor in the sky? I sure can. someone concered (4/22/2005) ya your right i dont think a preacher retires and i dont think a preacher should be drinking eirther i know erine and he drinks also and sellin drugs i dont know i didnt know him that well i just knew he drunk you cant be a preacher a drank well a true one any way your right curus george i didnt know a preacher could retire and maybe he not one Curious George (ha ha) (4/21/2005) How can a person be a retired preacher? Maybe if he wasn't able to preach as being in a nursing home,understandable,but I don't believe a person can retire from preaching,if so,maybe he wasn't called to begin with. some one concered (4/21/2005) a preacher sellin drugs now thats bad him post to be a man of god and sellin drugs does he think gods pleaced corse im sure gods not pleaced with alot i do but a preacher sellin drugs hes post to be tryin to win people to the lord does he think he will by selin drugs to people i very doubt that one corse i ant judgein him im just statin a fact here a preacher is post to up lift people i thought does he think uplifting people is sellin drugs to them drugs kill people dont he know that lol i know hes retired preacher but realy in gods eyes a precher dont retire im sorry well enough said we2czechs (4/20/2005) Those two are soooooooo stupid! Add a Comment |
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