21 INDICTED BY FEDERAL JURY FOR DRUG DISTRIBUTION

            SIXTEEN PEOPLE FROM CHRISTIAN COUNTY AND TWO FROM TODD COULD BE FACING THE MAXIMUM FEDERAL PENALTY FOR DRUG DISTRIBUTION AFTER A MASSIVE INDICTMENT BY A WESTERN KENTUCKY GRAND JURY TODAY (THURSDAY).

            ACCORDING TO THE U.S. ATTORNEY’S OFFICE, 21 PEOPLE WERE INDICTED IN ALL, ACCUSED OF SELLING CRACK COCAINE OVER A TWO YEAR PERIOD IN CHRISTIAN COUNTY. THE INDICTMENT DOES NOT DISCLOSE JUST HOW MUCH CRACK THEY ALLEGEDLY DISTRIBUTED BETWEEN JUNE OF 2007 AND LAST MONTH, BUT ACTING U.S. ATTORNEY CANDACE HILL SAYS IT WAS MORE THAN FIFTY GRAMS, WHICH IS ENOUGH TO WARRANT MAXIMUM PUNISHMENT IF CONVICTED.

            THAT MEANS EACH COULD FACE, AT MINIMUM, 10 YEARS IN PRISON, OR AT MOST, SPEND THE REST OF THEIR LIVES IN THE FEDERAL PEN, IF PROVEN GUILTY.

            THOSE INDICTED FROM HOPKINSVILLE INCLUDE:

41 YEAR OLD AMANDA ELAINE BUSH OF FORREST PARKWAY

33 YEAR OLD MARVIN EUGENE ACREE OF SOUTH VIRGINIA

24 YEAR OLD LARTAVIOUS MONTRELL BANKS OF EAST BRADSHAW

28 YEAR OLD JAMES LAMONTE DUNBAR OF EAST ELM

32 YEAR OLD COREY LAMONTE GRAY OF MCLEAN AVENUE

34 YEAR OLD CHARLES EUGENE JONES, JR OF ASPEN DRIVE

27 YEAR OLD DWAYNE MICHAEL JOSEPH, JR OF COUNTRY CLUB LANE

31 YEAR OLD RODNEY EDWARD MOORE OF GLENWOOD WAY

33 YEAR OLD ALVIN WAYNE QUARLES OF CARL SMITH ROAD

34 YEAR OLD PERRY MONCELL REDD OF COLONEL DRIVE

32 YEAR OLD DEVONA MICHELLE RILEY OF HOPPER COURT

23 YEAR OLD CAMEYON DARON ROBERTS OF DURRETT AVENUE

35 YEAR OLD LAMON DERON WATKINS OF KING DRIVE

27 YEAR OLD RONNIE GENE WHALEY OF YOUNG STREET

27 YEAR OLD DEMETRIUS CORTEZ WILLIAMS OF FAIRVIEW DRIVE

30 YEAR OLD DONALD CARLYLE WILLIAMS OF EAST 7^TH STREET

THOSE INDICTED FROM GUTHRIE INCLUDE:

24 YEAR OLD ALAJOWAN BANKS OF MERRIT STREET

24 YEAR OLD REX WHITLOCK OF GREEN ACRES CIRCLE

            TWO OTHERS FROM LEXINGTON AND OWENSBORO WERE ALSO INCLUDED IN THE INDICTMENT. A DATE FOR ARRAIGNMENT HAS NOT YET BEEN SET.