RETIRED TROOPER CHARGED WITH MAKING METHAMPHETAMINE

A retired Kentucky State Police officer has been arrested for making
methamphetamine and growing marijuana.

Police arrested Benjamin Dewan Hadley of 2680 KY 92 in Columbia on
Tuesday. Hadley has been in the Adair County Jail since his arrest.

According to a spokesperson at the Columbia State Police Post, Hadley
retired from the state police in the early 1990s.

The Kentucky State Police Drug Enforcement Section of the Kentucky State
Police Special Operations Section, along with officers from the Columbia
post, executed a search warrant on Hadley's KY 92 property on Tuesday.

According to a press release from the state police, when the warrant was
executed officers found both methamphetamine and marijuana.

Materials used to manufacture methamphetamine and for growing marijuana
were seized, along with an undetermined amount of processed marijuana
and methamphetamine. Also, 971 marijuana plants were destroyed.

Several vehicles, farming equipment and firearms were seized, according
to the release.

Hadley was charged with manufacturing methamphetamine, growing
marijuana, first-degree selling methamphetamine and selling marijuana
more than eight ounces but less than five pounds.

According to the press release, the investigation is ongoing at this
time.