Police arrested a single mother of four in Athens yesterday for trafficking drugs out of her home, months after a local charity gave her a car.
Good Works, Inc., an Athens-based charity, offers a program that gives vehicles and bicycles to the needy in exchange for three months of work. Trina R. Hornsby was part of the program.
Post Editor in Chief Ashley Lutz profiled Hornsby this summer for The Columbus Dispatch. Keith Wasserman, director of Good Works, told Lutz that a reader donated a car to Hornsby after reading the article.
If I'm able to get a car
it would really change my whole life give me so much more opportunity Hornsby told the Dispatch.
It was police, not opportunity, that knocked yesterday and arrested Hornsby, 42, of 602 Hope Drive, Athens.
Athens Police Department, The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation, and Ohio University Police Department worked together on the investigation.
(It was a) very low key affair
we just knocked on the door and interviewed and brought her into jail
said Detective Chuck Haegele of the Athens Police Department.
No drugs were seized from her property during the arrest, Haegele said.
Police arrested Hornsby after she twice sold investigators large amounts of hydrocodene, commonly known as Vicodin. She sold a smaller amount to them once as well, Haegele said.
A grand jury indicted Hornsby Monday on two counts of third-degree felony drug trafficking, and a fourth-degree felony for the same charge.
Third-degree felonies carry up to a five-year jail sentence, and fourth-degree felonies carry up to an 18-month sentence.
Hornsby was arrested in the '90s for drug-related charges as well, Haegele said. No such charges appear in the court's online docket.
A representative from Good Works was not available at press time.
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