Four arrested in undercover drug stings in Corbin

A pair of undercover investigations initiated by the Corbin Police Department has led to the arrest of four people for various drug offenses.

According to Corbin Police Chief Carson Mullins, officers from his department executed a search warrant at the residence of Michael Adams, 38, of Corbin, on Jan. 9. Adams lives at 1 Bambi Court in Corbin.
Prescription painkillers including Percocet and Lorcet were seized in the raid, along with drug paraphernalia. Officers obtained a search warrant following a controlled drug buy using a confidential informant.

Authorities had received complaints of drug trafficking at the residence, leading to the investigation.

“It’s an investigation that had been going on about a month,” said Corbin Police Sgt. Glenn Taylor, Jr., who participated in the investigation. “Mr. Adams has moved several times, but someone called and told us where he was and that is how we got onto him.”

Police arrested Adam’s father, 60-year-old Jimmy Adams, who was visiting his son from Beanstation, Tenn. Both men face the same charges because Taylor said both of them had “buy money” on them used by police to make the surreptitious drug purchases.

Adams and his father were charged with trafficking in a controlled substance first and second degree, along with possession of drug paraphernalia. They were lodged in the Whitley County Detention Center.
On Jan. 12, Police again raided a Corbin residence for drugs following an undercover Oxycontin buy by a confidential informant.

Officers executed a search warrant at the residence of Betty Freeman and recovered drugs worth over $4,000 in street value including Oxycontin, methadone and hydrocodone, along with some police scanners from the home. Police later discovered some unidentified white pills on Ball.

Freeman, 65, and her friend Delores Ball, 50, of Corbin, were both arrested. Freeman was charged with trafficking in a controlled substance first degree, possession of a controlled substance first degree, and four counts of possession of a controlled substance second degree and third degree drug possession. Ball was charged with first-degree drug trafficking and possession, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Taylor said Freeman had been under investigation for over a year. He said he thinks Ball acted as a “middle man” for Freeman, supplying her with the drugs.

“We put some time into this. We try not to get in a hurry and make sure we cover all of our bases.”