Two Hart County men were sentenced in federal court Thursday.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky says Dominick Woods of Bonnieville was sentenced five years in prison followed by four years of supervised release for one count of Conspiracy to Distribute More Than 40 Grams of Fentanyl and one count of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.
Meanwhile, Joshua Sanders of Cave City was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Fentanyl and one count of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.
Woods and Sanders faced charges related to a July 2023 incident in which they attempted to smuggle fentanyl pills into the Hart County Jail. The firearms charges were based on previous convictions, for Woods a 2020 Enhanced Trafficking in Marijuana charge out of the Hardin Circuit Court and for Sanders multiple charges from 2009 to 2019 out of the Barren, Hart, LaRue, and Warren circuit courts.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Kentucky State Police, and the Greater Hardin County Narcotics Task Force as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods. There is no parole in the federal system.
