PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- Four people suspected of bringing pills to eastern Kentucky from Florida are facing drug charges in Pike County.

WYMT-TV reports hundreds of pills were seized when deputies raided the homes of Steve Pete Hackney and Anjolique Wilder on Thursday night. The pair were arrested along with two others who were at Hackney's home, Joey Hackney and Eddie Ray Hensley.

Deputies recovered more than 400 so-called "Roxycontin" and Xanax pills, $17,000 and guns.

Pike County Sheriff Charles "Fuzzy" Keesee said Wilder tried to eat the pills to prevent officers from seizing them.

All four have pleaded not guilty.

Meanwhile, the Lexington Herald-Leader is reporting two former employees of a pain clinic chain were charged in Pikeville this week with being part of a drug ring that brought Methadone and other prescription drugs from out of state into eastern Kentucky.

A complaint filed in federal court charges Stephen M. Lyon, 45, of Louisiana, and Tonia Snook, 33, of Mississippi, in a drug distribution conspiracy.

Lyon is the former CEO of Urgent Care Services, based in Slidell, La., and Snook is a former employee, according to a statement by investigator James Hunter.

According to Hunter, the pair recruited people from the Floyd County area to go to company offices in Slidell, Philadelphia and Cincinnati for methadone and other pills between 2004 to 2007.

When police raided the Urgent Care Services office in Philadelphia in 2007, they found that more than 100 people had traveled there from eastern Kentucky to get prescriptions.

Hunter said people would pay around $500 to get prescriptions for 160 methadone wafers, 120 Percocet pills and 120 Xanax tablets.

Doctors and others who worked for Urgent Care Services have pleaded guilty to improperly giving prescriptions and drugs to people from the Floyd County area. The doctors told investigators they felt pressured by company officials to keep prescribing the pills in order to generate income for the clinics.

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