KENTUCKY STATE POLICE SPECIAL DRUG UNIT ARRESTS JOHNSON COUNTY, KY. MAN, WHO IS FACING SENTENCING ON SEPARATE DRUG TRAFFICKING CASE
TROOPERS ALSO ARREST SUSPECT’S SON AT FATHER’S RESIDENCE, AFTER BEING DISCOVERED IN POSSESSION OF METH
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NOVEMBER 13, 2026 – written by WADE QUEEN
LIKE DRUG TRAFFICKING FATHER, LIKE DRUG USING SON: JEFFERY EARL BLAIR (PHOTO TOP), 49, & DYLAN MICHAEL STAPLEON 26, BOTH OF SITKA, KENTUCKY., WERE NABBED BY KY. STATE POLICE POLICE DRUG UNIT ON DRUG TRAFFICKING AND DRUG POSSESSION CHARGES ON NOVEMBER 12.
Kentucky State Police arrested a Johnson County, KY. man, who was already facing sentencing in a separate drug trafficking case, has been arrested after police said he was again found to be trafficking in drugs.
According to the arrest citation written by Kentucky State Police Trooper Billy Ball, on Thursday, November 12, the KSP Special Investigations East Unit executed a search warrant at the residence of Jeffery Earl Blair, 49, at KY.1559, in Sitka.
KSP trooper Billy Ball wrote that, while searching the residence, troopers located and seized more than 120 dosage units of diazepam, several ounces of marijuana, digital scales and a large amount of cash.
Jeffery Blair was lodged in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville on the following charges of:
* TRAFFICKING IN CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, 3RD DEGREE, 1ST OFFENSE – (>120 D.U. DRUG UNSPECIFIED);
*TRAFFICKING IN MARIJUANA ( LESS THAN 8 OZ.) 1ST OFFENSE;
*DRUG PARAPHERNALIA – ADVERTISEMENT.
While at the residence of Jeffery Blair, according to a second arrest citation, state police discovered that Jeffery Blair’s son, Dylan Michael Stapleton, 26, was in possession of a quantity of suspected methamphetamine.
Dylan Stapleton was lodged in the BSRDC jail on a charge of:
* POSSESSION CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE 1ST DEGREE, 1ST OFFENSE (METHAMPHETAMINE.
Dylan Statpleton has since been released from jail after posting his bond.
Johnson County Circuit Court records show that Jeffery Blair pleaded guilty on Friday, October 9, in a Johnson County drug case, in which he was originally indicted on several charges, including first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance (greater than or equal to 2 grams of methamphetamine, first offense), first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance (less than 4 grams of cocaine, first offense), second-degree trafficking in a controlled substance (less than 20 dosage units, unspecified, first offense) and trafficking in marijuana (less than 8 ounces).
Jeffery Blair is currently set to be sentenced in that original drug trafficking case on Friday, December 11.
