An Upstate man who was already serving time in prison for robbery pleaded guilty yesterday to trafficking meth from behind prison walls. On Monday, 30 year old, Kevin Matthew Bolin entered a guilty plea on a charge of trafficking less than 100 grams of meth, in a Laurens County courtroom.
Bowlin has been serving time on an attempted armed robbery charge, after robbing a man at gunpoint in Greenwood County back in 2017. In 2019, the Laurens County Sheriff's Office made a traffic stop and found meth in the vehicle.
The investigation uncovered that the meth found came from a drug ring being run by Bowlin while he was incarcerated in Dorchester County. Guards searched his prison cell and found a contraband cell phone that linked Bowlin to the drugs found in Laurens County.
Bowlin has been sentenced to 20 years without the possibility of early release on the drug trafficking charge.