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Four from Sugar Grove and One from Mountain City Sentenced to Prison for Conspiracy to Manufacture Meth

Tim Miller
Tim Miller

Jan. 11, 2013. On Tuesday, Jan. 8, Tim Miller, 47, of 8210 U.S. 321 North Sugar Grove; Sara Farthing, 30, of Smith Henson Road, Sugar Grove; and James Trivette, 47, of 8210 U.S. 321 North Sugar Grove, pled guilty and were sentenced to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for Conspiracy to Manufacture Methamphetamine.

Also on Thursday, Jan. 10, Tommy Ward, 52, of 138 Northside Drive, Sugar Grove, and Brandy Church, 29, 1168 S. Shady St. Mountain City, Tenn., pled guilty and were sentenced to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for Conspiracy to Manufacture Methamphetamine.

Sara Farthing
Sara Farthing

Miller received 78 months, Farthing received 58 months and Trivette received 42 months for their part in the conspiracy. Ward, the leader of the Drug Trafficking Organization, received 151 months and Church received 70 months for their parts in the conspiracy. These individuals were responsible for the manufacture of more than two kilograms of methamphetamine over a 10 year period.

In 2008 Agents with Watauga County Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Unit began an investigation into a large scale methamphetamine manufacturing organization operating in N.C. and Tennessee. The United States Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) became involved in the investigation and in May 2012, 11 people from Tennessee and North Carolina were indicted in the Eastern District of Tennessee.