OUT OF STATE DRUG DEALER CAUGHT AFTER STATE POLICE RECEIVED TIP ALERT, FOLLOWED BY UNDERCOVER BUY AND LATER TRAFFIC STOP AND SUBSEQUENT SEARCH OF HIS HOTEL ROOM IN PAINTSVILLE
FREDERICK DANIEL HOLT JR.,50,OF GADSDEN, ALABAMA: AN OUT OF STATE HARDCORE DRUG DEALER GETS BUSTED BY THE KENTUCKY STATE POLICE FOR THE IMPORTING OF DEADLY FENTANYL IN OUR LOCAL AREA TO SELL.
A man from the state of Alabama is in jail after Kentucky State Police shut down an attempt to bring fentanyl into the Eastern Kentucky area.
KSP Post 9 Pikeville troopers received a report that Frederick Daniel Holt Jr., 50, of Gadsden, Alabama, was bringing fentanyl into Johnson County and planning to sell it from his hotel room at the Days Inn in Paintsville. Law enforcement investigative units learned Frederick Holt was staying in room 108 and arranged to have an undercover informant make a purchase from him.
Once the purchase was made, troopers arranged for a traffic stop to pull Frederick Holt over and they took him into custody; and shortly afterwards the KSP troopers took Federick Holt back to the hotel room had been staying in. Frederick Holt consented to a search and state police stated that he cooperated by showing them where they could find three bags of fentanyl, and he admitted that it belonged to him.
Frederick Holt was arrested by KSP 9 trooper detective Dustin Thompson on charges of:
- AGGRAVATING. TRAFFICKING IN CONTROLLED SYSTEM >= 28 GRAMS FENTANYL and
- IMPORTING CARFENTANIL, FENTANYL, OR FENTANYL DERIVATIVES.
The fentanyl trafficking is the most serious charge, a Class B felony, which carries a potential sentence of 10 to-20 years in a state prison.Frederick Holt is currently being held in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville on a $25,025 full cash only bond.
