{Greenup, Kentucky}...Causetta Michelle Tackett, a former corrections officer at the Greenup County Detention Center, was sentenced Thursday after she pleaded guilty last month to first-degree drug trafficking and first-degree promoting contraband. Greenup Circuit Judge Bob Conley rejected Tackett’s plea for probation and sentenced her to the term of incarceration she agreed to accept when she pleaded guilty, giving her 10 years in prison for selling drugs to inmates and five years on the contraband count, with the terms to run concurrently. Conley told Tackett he couldn’t “in good conscience” grant her request because of the nature of her offense and the position she held. Tackett and her husband, Charles Tackett, 37, were arrested in August, about three weeks after Greenup Jailer Mike Worthington launched an investigation into drug trafficking in the detention center and brought the matter to the attention of Sheriff Keith Cooper.
