W’burg man convicted on meth charges

The United States Attorney’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration and Kentucky State Police jointly announce today that Paul Linville Bargo, 44, of Williamsburg, Ky., was convicted Friday evening by a federal jury, after a three-day trial, of various methamphetamine charges.

The jury found Bargo guilty of conspiring to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine, distributing methamphetamine, possessing chemicals to manufacture methamphetamine and attempting to manufacture methamphetamine.

The evidence established that from October 2004 and continuing through February of 2008, Bargo manufactured more than 500 grams of methamphetamine in Clay, Knox and Whitley Counties. Evidence at trial also revealed that during this same time period, Bargo accepted a delivery of more than 100 grams of pseudoephedrine. Pseudoephedrine is a main ingredient used to create methamphetamine.

Prior to the triel, Bargo entered a guilty plea to seven marijuana charges and three hydrocodone charges.
The investigation was conducted by the DEA and the KSP. The United States was represented in the trial by the London branch of the office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Bargo is currently scheduled to appear for sentencing before Judge Gregory F. VanTatenhove in London on May 13, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. Bargo faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. However, his sentence will be imposed by the court after consideration of the United States Sentencing Guidelines and the Federal Statute governing the imposition of sentences.