RE: Johnny Boone released from Ohio, now back in Kentucky!

JRB

On June 3rd, it was reported by WAVE3 News in Louisville that John Robert Boone had been released from Elkton Prison and transported back to Kentucky and is now in a halfway house.  We welcome him ‘home’.  We are wishing him well in his future endeavors. 

Below is an excerpt from the news story:

By Charles Gazaway | June 3, 2020 at 4:29 PM EDT – Updated June 3 at 4:29 PM

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – The man known as the “Godfather of Grass” is now out of federal prison and in a Louisville halfway house.

Former Cornbread Mafia leader Johnny Boone was serving a nearly five-year sentence at the Elkton Federal Correctional Institution, after pleading guilty to growing one-thousand marijuana plants.

Boone spent eight years on the run before federal agents found him in Canada in 2016. He was sentenced on the single count in 2018, but his attorneys filed paperwork arguing he should be released early- because of a Coronavirus outbreak at the prison.

At least 520 inmates at Elkton Federal Correctional have tested positive. Nine deaths have been reported.

A Facebook post from one of Boone’s family friends says he was released from prison last night and brought to a halfway house in Louisville.

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