TWO JOHNSON COUNTY MEN HANDED STIFF PRISON SENTENCES IN FIVE DRUG TRAFFICKING CASES

In case number one, a Paintsville man who saw a string of arrests for drug-related charges in 2023, and also has a long criminal record, was sentenced to serve a total of 20 years in prison by the Johnson County Circuit Court on Friday, May 10.

According to the office Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Matt Runyon, the two cases involved controlled buys conducted by the Kentucky State Police’s Drug Enforcement Special Investigations unit, that resulted in two separate methamphetamine trafficking cases for Tyler Mitchell Trombley, 29, of Second Street, of Paintsville,KY., with each case contributing 10 years to his sentence and to run consecutively to one another.

According to the Johnson County Circuit Court documents, Tyler Trombley will also forfeit all cash recovered as proceeds he received from via his drug trafficking cases.

In a two week span, on February 23 & March 6,2023, Tyler Trombley was arrested on public intoxication charges twice; and then subsequently a methamphetamine trafficking charge in April 2023 resulting from a call that a building in Paintsville was on fire.

According to  the Johnson County Circuit Court documents, Tyler Trombley said he had started a fire in the building to keep he and another individual warm, and that when police officers searched him, he was found to be in possession of approximately 11.5 grams of methamphetamine. That second incident was one of the cases for which he received a stiff sentence on May 10.

These four cases were among the six times Tyler Trombley was arrested in 2023; as Tyler Trombley has seen a long string of arrests and trips to the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center since March 2013, according to jail records, and his most recent arrest, which was on December 19, 2023, (where he has remained in the BSRDC jail since) after him being indicted for two counts of meth trafficking  and two counts of first degree persistent felony offender, marked his 35th time for a trip to the BSRDC facility, with most of his arrests in Johnson County.

BSRDC records show that those past trips to the jail, amomg them, were for charges as varied as fleeing or evading police, resisting arrest, unlawful possession of a methamphetamine precursor, second-degree robbery, possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine, cocaine), possession of drug paraphernalia, trafficking charges for marijuana, date rape drugs and methamphetamine, selling or transfer of a simulated controlled substance, criminal trespassing, third-degree burglary and numerous public intoxication and alcohol intoxication charges.

Tyler Trombley was arrested an additional 10 times elsewhere in Kentucky, with two arrests in Pike County, and one arrest each in Floyd County, Hart County, Daviess County, Leslie County, Larue County, Wayne County, Todd County, and Rockcastle County.

In all, Tyler Trombley has been arrested in Kentucky at least 45 times in just over 10 & 1/2 years, on nearly one hundred felonies, misdemeanors and motor traffic offenses.

But now it looks like the public will not have to worry about Tyler Mitchell Trombley until around the year 2044; and that is only if he does not die on his own or gets whacked in prison.

Also sentenced in the second separate case, Christopher John Borders, 51, of KY. Route 40, of Meally, KY., who was indicted in December 2023 in three separate cases on opioid trafficking charges. According to Johnson County Circuit Court documents, Christopher Borders received a charge of first-degree and first-offense trafficking in a controlled substance (less than or equal to 10 dosage units of opiates) in each case and was sentenced to serve three years per case, to run consecutively for a total of nine years in state prison.