1 minute read Christopher Adam Jones A Franklin man is headed to state prison after a failed attempt to conceal illegal drugs in a cluster of hosta plants at a Cashiers hardware store. Wednesday, Christopher Adam Jones, 37, pleaded guilty in Jackson County Superior Court to trafficking in methamphetamine, Assistant District Attorney Christina Matheson said. Superior Court Judge Steve Warren sentenced Jones to 70-93 months in the N.C. Department of Corrections and ordered him to pay a $50,000 fine. Consolidated for the purposes of sentencing, but in a separate case, Jones also pleaded guilty Wednesday to breaking and entering a motor vehicle and larceny, said Matheson, a prosecutor for District Attorney Ashley Welch, who oversees the 43rd Prosecutorial District.