Monroe County man busted on meth charge
From Staff ReportsOriginally published: January 28. 2009 3:01AM
Last modified: January 27. 2009 11:52PM
Blount County authorities arrested a 36-year-old Tellico Plains man on Monday on the charge of promoting methamphetamine manufacture.
The charges stem from a case that's a year old, according to Blount County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Marian O'Briant. The Alcoa Police Department stopped Jack Kenneth Plemons, 36, last year on a seat belt violation and found several components to manufacture methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.
Plemons and 31-year-old Crystal Gail Barnes had allegedly purchased psuedoephedrine, used in meth manufacture, at a Blount County business.
Barnes was arrested in April and pleaded guilty in July 2008.
She was given a three-year suspended jail sentence and three years supervised probation, according to O'Briant.
Investigators learned in January last year that the components Plemons and Barnes had during the traffic stop would be sold to someone who was going to make meth.
Authorities picked Plemons up in Campbell County on Monday on a warrant for promoting meth manufacture.
Plemons was released on a $25,000 bond pending a 9 a.m. Feb. 2 hearing in Blount County General Sessions Court.
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