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3 members of Mayking family face drug counts
Three members of a Mayking family were charged with trafficking in controlled substances Monday.
Police say the arrests of Terry "Fuzz" Fugate, 43, his wife, Mary Barker Fugate, also 43, and John R. Barker, 21, were the result of a twomonth investigation into the trafficking of OxyContin, a powerful narcotic painkiller.
Barker, of 497 Great Oak Road at Cram Creek, was charged with one count of first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance (OxyContin), said Lt. Marcus K. Terry of the Letcher County Sheriff's Office. Mary and Terry Fugate, also of 497 Great Oak Road, were charged with one count each of criminal conspiracy to trafficking in a controlled substance, Terry said. Mary Fugate was also charged with first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance.
John Barker was arrested Monday afternoon. Mary and Terry Fugate surrendered to authorities Monday night, said Deputy Sheriff Brian Damron.
The arrests of the Fugates marks the second time in four years they have been charged with trafficking in narcotics from their Cram Creek home. On Oc- 6, 2003, Mary Fugate was charged with trafficking in hydrocodone. Terry Fugate was charged a week later with trafficking in oxycodone and hydrocodone.
A fourth person was arrested for second-degree possession of a controlled substance (hydrocodone) during this week's roundup in Mayking. Terry identified him as 54-yearold Mitchell Spangler of 450 Pine Creek Road.
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