Kentucky man arrested on drug charges for second time

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, March 12, 2003

A Greenup, Ky., man was arrested Sunday night and charged with trafficking in drugs less than a month after being arrested on other drug charges.

Aaron Black, 33, was indicted Feb. 11 by a Lawrence County grand jury on three counts of trafficking in crack cocaine. When he was arrested Feb. 16, authorities found crack cocaine on his person and forwarded this information to the grand jury when it met last week. The grand jury then indicted Black a second time on a charge of possession of crack cocaine. Black had been released on $50,000 cash bond after his Feb. 16 arrest.

Ironton Police detective, Capt. Chris Bowman, said he expects that additional information stemming from Black's most recent drug arrest will be presented when the grand jury meets again in a few weeks.

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Black was one of more than a dozen people who were arrested last month in a drug sweep that began with the raid on an alleged crack house at 619 South Ninth St. Another person arrested in connection with the drug raid,

Larry Gilliam, 52, of Flatwoods, Ky., was sentenced last week to four years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of trafficking in drugs, one count of aggravated trafficking in drugs, and

three counts of trafficking in cocaine.

He was also ordered to pay a total of $15,000 in fines.