A Boone County resident is headed to prison after admitting guilt in a drug case.
On Nov. 1, 2004, Boone County sheriff’s deputies descended upon a Kirk Hollow residence with child protective service workers. They were there to investigate a case of alleged negligence on the part of Darrell and Tiffany Sloane. Shortly after arriving, deputies Chad Barker and Jeremy Thompson discovered something much more serious, a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory.
After noticing the presence of precursor chemicals necessary in the production of meth, Deputy Jeremy Thompson began to question another resident of the home, 32-year-old James Kirk II. A cursory pat down search of Kirk found a bag with what the criminal complaint called “a substantial amount of methamphetamines.” The complaint said that Kirk admitted at the time that he made drugs at the residence. Additionally, the man admitted to destroying the waste products from the meth making process.
Last year, Kirk was indicted by a Boone County grand jury on six counts related to the case. The charges included conspiracy, drug possession and operating a drug lab. The man sat in the Southwestern Regional Jail on the charges until this month, when he went before Judge E. Lee Schlaegel last week.
In an agreement with prosecutors, Kirk agreed to plead guilty to a single count of operating a clandestine drug laboratory. In exchanging to admitting guilt to this single felony count, the judge agreed to dismiss the other five charges.
Kirk willl be before Judge Schlaegel again on Jan. 9 of next year. He faces a sentence of 2-10 years in prison and up to a $25,000 fine.
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