PRESS RELEASE
May 29, 2008
London, Ky. —The United States Attorney’s Office, United States Forest Service (USFS) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) jointly announced today that 48-year-old Edgar Flinton Hamblin of Corbin, Ky., was sentenced yesterday to 106 months in prison and five years of supervised release for manufacturing marijuana, possession of firearms, and destructive devices, by United States District Court Judge Danny C. Reeves.
In March of 2008, Hamblin pled guilty to the charges. In June 2007, United States Forest Service (USFS) conducted air surveillance in the Whitley County area and spotted several suspected marijuana plots. USFS agents performed a ground reconnaissance and located marijuana plants growing in all of the locations identified during the aerial detection flight. A male subject, later identified as Edgar Hamblin, is recorded on the video in the marijuana plots. Hamblin is responsible for manufacturing 78 marijuana plants, possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime and possessing unregistered destructive devices.
Under federal law, Hamblin must serve 85 percent of his prison sentence.
The investigation was conducted by the USFS & ATF ( Lexington Division). The United States was represented by Assistant United States Attorney Gregory A. Ousley.