{"id":1312902,"date":"2024-04-10T15:34:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T20:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1312902"},"modified":"2024-04-12T18:08:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T23:08:42","slug":"man-convicted-in-meth-laced-pills-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1312902","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted in meth-laced pills conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/CherokeeCountymeth1-225x200.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1312903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/CherokeeCountymeth1-225x200.webp 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/CherokeeCountymeth1-395x350.webp 395w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/CherokeeCountymeth1.webp 548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Our news partners at KETK report a Cherokee County man pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday and is awaiting sentencing for counterfeit pill manufacturing and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine-laced pills. According to the U.S. Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office, 45-year-old Robert Martin, of Alto, conspired with others to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of a mixture containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Martin set up a rotary tablet pill press on his property in order to press out hundreds of thousands of counterfeit pills then distribute them throughout the U.S. According to information presented in court, he also recruited and supplied wholesale and mid-level distributors.<\/p>\n<p>Back in July of 2023, federal and state law enforcement executed a serach warrant for Martin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s property. During the search, they found:<\/p>\n<p>    five firearms<br \/>\n    five rotary pill presses<br \/>\n    111 grams of meth<br \/>\n    more than 7,600 grams of meth in powder form<br \/>\n    more than 29,000 meth-laced pills<\/p>\n<p>According to Cherokee County Sheriff Brent Dickson, Martin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arrest was made after a two-month-long investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Our news partners at KETK report a Cherokee County man pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday and is awaiting sentencing for counterfeit pill manufacturing and conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine-laced pills. According to the U.S. Attorney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office, 45-year-old Robert Martin, of Alto, conspired with others to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1312902\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man convicted in meth-laced pills conspiracy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1312907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/CherokeeCountymeth1-225x200.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Man convicted in meth-laced pills conspiracy","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 00:17:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/04\/CherokeeCountymeth1-225x200.webp","fifu_image_alt":"Man convicted in meth-laced pills conspiracy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1312902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312906,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312902\/revisions\/1312906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1312907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1312902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1312902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1312902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}