Daily Independent (Ashland, KY)

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March 2, 2013

Man arrested in McDonald's parking lot

ASHLAND — A Lawrence County, Ohio, man was arrested Friday evening after allegedly selling drugs in a McDonald’s parking lot in the 2500 block of Winchester Avenue, according to a news release from the Boyd County Sheriff’s Department.

Michael S. Harvey, 60, of Waterloo, Ohio, was charged with second- and third-degree trafficking of a controlled substance. Undercover deputies observed a man make a drug transaction of 50 Xanax bars and 13 hydrocodone tablets in the McDonald’s lot.

Harvey was arrested shortly afterward during a traffic stop. He waslodged in the Boyd County Detention Center.

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