PORTSMOUTH, Ohio — A Detroit man accused of running an interstate fentanyl pipeline through southern Ohio has been sentenced to 30 to 35.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to 16 felony charges in Scioto County Common Pleas Court.
Anton Glynn Miles, 36, pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, three counts of trafficking in a fentanyl-related compound with major drug offender specifications, and 12 counts of possessing criminal tools, Scioto County Prosecuting Attorney Shane A. Tieman said in a news release. Under the agreed sentence, at least 18 years is mandatory, and Miles will not be eligible for release until he has served at least 24 years. Tieman’s office said Miles would have faced a mandatory minimum of 42 years had he been convicted at trial.
According to the prosecutor’s office, Miles directed a supply network that moved bulk quantities of fentanyl and heroin out of Detroit and into northern Kentucky, Huntington, West Virginia, and southern Ohio, with additional distribution ties in Indianapolis and Chicago.
Investigators said Miles avoided detection for years by relying on commercial rental vehicles and car-sharing services, including Hertz, Avis, Enterprise, Lyft and Turo. He routinely rented cars in Michigan and added couriers as authorized drivers, or financed rentals in co-conspirators’ names, according to the release. That practice became the basis for the criminal tools charges.
The case was built on three interdiction stops on State Route 823 by Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Lewis, a 20-year veteran assigned to District 9 Criminal Patrol, the prosecutor’s office said. On Jan. 12, 2022, Lewis stopped a 2021 Ford Escape driven by a 22-year-old courier; the vehicle had been rented in Michigan two days earlier with the woman listed as an authorized driver, and troopers found about 600 grams of fentanyl hidden in a magnetic box near the exhaust. The release said evidence pointed to monthly trips dating back to July 2021.
On April 22, 2022, Lewis stopped a 2020 Nissan Rogue rented in Livonia, Michigan, and occupied by two women. A drug-detection K9 alerted on the vehicle, and troopers found about 405 grams of fentanyl concealed in a bag of clothing on the back seat.
On Aug. 15, 2022, Lewis spotted a van and a rental Chevrolet Suburban traveling in tandem. Miles, driving the Suburban, briefly pulled over before speeding away; Lewis pursued and stopped him. Trooper Anthony Day and his K9 partner searched the van, driven by a Detroit Lyft driver, and found about 237 grams of narcotics packed inside a Folgers coffee container coated in gear grease. The release said Miles paid the driver $500 per trip and called him during the stop, instructing him to flee.
After the August 2022 stop, prosecutors said Miles rerouted his operation through Indianapolis to northern Kentucky to avoid Lewis, prompting the prosecutor’s office to bring in the Southern Ohio Drug Task Force. Investigators spent about three years building a case for a grand jury, which returned a 34-count indictment in August 2025. Miles fled and became a fugitive, according to the release.
Detectives tracked Miles through Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky before locating him Nov. 2, 2025, in Grayson, Kentucky, driving a 2024 Toyota Camry rented from an Enterprise location in Royal Oak, Michigan, the release said. The Southern Ohio Drug Task Force and Kentucky law enforcement stopped a vehicle leaving a known narcotics location and arrested Miles along with Craig Heath Horton, described as a local distributor with an active felony warrant. A search of the Grayson residence turned up a rifle and more than 1,000 grams of suspected fentanyl and cutting agents, according to the release.
Tieman’s office credited the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the Southern Ohio Drug Task Force, the Portsmouth Police Department, the Scioto County Sheriff’s Office, several Kentucky law enforcement agencies, the Indiana State Police, and federal Drug Enforcement Administration and FBI task forces for the investigation.
The prosecutor’s office called the sentence one of the most significant in Scioto County history and said it marks the third major drug trafficking sentence the office has secured in as many weeks.
Suspects are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court.
The information contained in this story was obtained from the Office of the Scioto County Prosecuting Attorney.
