Floyd man charged with trying to smuggle drugs into jail after arrest for trying to sneak drugs to inmates

GEORGETOWN, Ky. A Prestonsburg man who was arrested in Georgetown on a warrant accusing him of trying to sneak drugs to Floyd County inmates, found more trouble for himself when guards allegedly found him sneaking more drugs into the jail.

Joseph Ryan Hammonds, 41, is accused of trying to deliver fentanyl to inmates in the Floyd County Detention Center back in March by putting fentanyl into a potato chip bag and leaving it where it could be found by a jail cleanup crew working along Route 680 at Harold.

He was also wanted for violating his parole following a conviction in a 2021 case for meth and heroin trafficking…

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