Former Gallatin Co. Sheriff Sentenced in Arizona for Drug Trafficking Case
By: Chris Veech
Updated: December 28, 2012
A former southern Illinois sheriff is back in federal lock-up in Arizona after being sentenced again in a drug-trafficking case, in which he allegedly plotted to have witnesses against him killed. Raymond Martin is serving his life-sentence at a maximum-security prison near Tuscon. That's where the former long-time Gallatin County law enforcer was being housed before he was resentenced earlier this month in Benton.
Martin was convicted in 2010 after witnesses testified that he was on duty when he supplied a drug dealer with marijuana from a department evidence locker. After he was jailed, he allegedly plotted to have two potential witnesses assaulted or possibly killed. Neither was harmed because the would-be hit men got cold feet and told authorities.
