PORTSMOUTH, Ohio. A Detroit man has been sentenced to 30 to 35.5 years in prison after pleading guilty in Scioto County to running an interstate fentanyl pipeline through southern Ohio, Prosecuting Attorney Shane A. Tieman announced.
Anton Glynn Miles, 36, entered a guilty plea in the Scioto County Court of Common Pleas to 16 felony counts, Tieman’s office said. Those counts include one count of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a first-degree felony; three counts of trafficking in a fentanyl-related compound, each a first-degree felony with a major drug offender specification; and 12 counts of possessing criminal tools, each a fifth-degree felony.
Under a negotiated plea, the court imposed an agreed aggregate sentence of 30 to 35.5 years in the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. Eighteen years of that term are mandatory, the prosecutor said. Miles will not be eligible for release until he has served at least 24 years. Tieman said a conviction at trial would have carried a minimum mandatory sentence of 42 years.
What prosecutors say the case was about
According to the prosecutor’s office, Miles directed a supply network from Detroit that moved bulk fentanyl and heroin into northern Kentucky and Huntington, West Virginia, by way of southern Ohio. Investigators also linked the operation to Indianapolis and described connections in Chicago.
A central part of the case, Tieman said, was Miles’s use of rental cars and car-sharing services. Records from Hertz, Avis, Enterprise, Lyft, and Turo were used to show vehicles rented in Michigan, couriers added as authorized drivers, or rentals placed in other people’s names. Those vehicles formed the basis of the criminal-tools counts.
The case began with traffic stops on State Route 823 by Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Nicholas Lewis of District 9 Criminal Patrol, the prosecutor said.
The 2022 stops
Two of those seizures were reported at the time by the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
On Jan. 12, 2022, troopers stopped a 2021 Ford rental on State Route 823 and found about 600 grams of suspected fentanyl in a magnetic box under the vehicle. The driver, a 23-year-old Michigan woman, was charged then with first-degree felony possession and trafficking. The prosecutor’s office now says Miles had rented the vehicle in Michigan two days earlier and added the driver as an authorized user. Tieman said evidence indicated trips had been occurring about monthly since at least July 2021.
On April 22, 2022, troopers stopped a 2020 Nissan Rogue on State Route 823 during a multi-state interdiction effort. A patrol canine alerted, and troopers reported finding about 405 grams of fentanyl. The driver, a 29-year-old Detroit woman, was charged then with first-degree felony possession and trafficking. The prosecutor’s office says the vehicle had been rented out of Livonia, Michigan, and that at least two earlier trips had occurred.
Tieman said a third stop on Aug. 15, 2022, involved two vehicles traveling together: a van driven by a Detroit Lyft driver and a rental Chevrolet Suburban driven by Miles. According to the prosecutor, Miles pulled over briefly, then fled. Troopers stopped Miles. A search of the Lyft vehicle recovered about 237 grams of narcotics inside a coffee container. Tieman said the driver had been paid $500 a trip and that Miles called during the stop and told him to run. That August stop was described in the prosecutor’s release and was not independently detailed in the contemporaneous Highway Patrol bulletins reviewed for this report.
After those seizures, prosecutors said Miles shifted routes from Detroit through Indianapolis into northern Kentucky to avoid the same patrol stretch. The Southern Ohio Drug Task Force joined the case. Tieman said it took about three years to gather evidence for a grand jury. A 34-count indictment was returned in August 2025, after which Miles became a fugitive.
Kentucky arrest
On Nov. 2, 2025, Carter County, Kentucky, authorities arrested Miles and Grayson resident Craig Heath Horton during a narcotics investigation. Independent reports from WSAZ, the Carter County Times, and K105 said deputies recovered about 1,080.5 grams of fentanyl, described as more than 10,000 doses or about 2.4 pounds. Miles, then listed as 35 and of Detroit, was held on Kentucky charges of aggravated trafficking and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and was also served with an Ohio fugitive warrant. Horton faced related Kentucky charges. Tieman’s office said officers also recovered a rifle, the keys to Miles’s Enterprise rental Camry, and more than 1,000 grams of suspected fentanyl and cutting agents that Miles had just delivered.
What the sentence does and does not decide
The Scioto County sentence resolves Miles’s Ohio case under the plea described by the prosecutor. It is not, by itself, a verdict on every person named in the investigation. Couriers charged in the 2022 traffic stops, and Horton in Kentucky, were separate defendants in separate proceedings.
Tieman called the term one of the most significant prison sentences imposed in Scioto County and said it was the third major drug-trafficking sentence secured by his office in as many weeks. He credited the Ohio State Highway Patrol, Southern Ohio Drug Task Force, Portsmouth Police Department, Scioto County Sheriff’s Office, several Kentucky agencies, the Indiana State Police, and DEA and FBI task forces.
An indictment and a prosecutor’s summary are official accusations and findings presented by the state. A guilty plea is an admission to the counts listed in court. Readers should treat drug-weight figures from traffic stops as amounts reported by law enforcement at the time of seizure.
