Detective sentenced for drugs, stolen property
NEWPORT, Tenn. (AP) – A former Newport police detective captain has been sentenced to 90 months in prison for buying and selling stolen property and drugs.
According to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 59-year-old James Finley Holt of Cosby bought stolen property and sold it from Newport convenience stores he owned with his wife. He also distributed hydrocodone and swapped it for stolen property. Many of the transactions occurred while Holt was on duty.
Holt was sentenced on Monday.
U.S. Attorney William C. Killian said in a statement that the quantity of drugs Holt distributed was small by federal prosecution standards, but “his conviction was important because he victimized the community he swore to protect.”
