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ROGERSVILLE — Two of three people arrested during a traffic stop in 2016 were sentenced to eight years each last week in Hawkins County Circuit Court meth trafficking charges. The third defendant, Michael Lee Deal 30 of Bulls Gap, was sentenced to 10 years in January after pleading guilty before Judge John Dugger to meth trafficking, meth manufacturing, and illegal gun possession. On June 24, 2016 Deal was spotted by the HCSO as a passenger in a vehicle on Rt.