An Ohio County business owner previously convicted in a sex trafficking case involving a minor has been sentenced to federal prison for rolling back miles on vehicles he sold at car lots in Beaver Dam and Bowling Green.
Randy R. Huff, 59, of Bowling Green, owner of Huff’s Auto Sales in Beaver Dam and Southside Auto Sales in Bowling Green, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $40,000 in restitution, for wire fraud, conspiracy to commit odometer tampering, and four counts of odometer tampering, according to Michael A. Bennett, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
“Let this case serve notice to like-minded fraudsters that taking advantage of our citizens comes at a cost; federal prison and large fines,” Bennett said while announcing Huff’s sentence.
There is no parole in the federal system.
According to court documents, between June 2018 and January 2023, Huff, aided and abetted by an employee, 51-year-old Donnie Wilson, of Bowling Green, devised a scheme to defraud buyers of used cars by fraudulently reducing the mileage shown on the odometers of vehicles sold at his used car lots.
In the scheme, Huff purchased high mileage vehicles at auction, then directed his employees to replace the vehicles’ odometers with ones showing lower mileage, prosecutors said. Buyers were not informed of the odometer replacements.
On March 11, 2025, Wilson was sentenced to probation for a term of three years, and ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution for wire fraud, conspiracy to commit odometer tampering, and four counts of odometer tampering.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Kentucky Department of Transportation.
Huff, in 2017, pled guilty to tampering with physical evidence after he destroyed his cell phone which contained videos of him receiving oral sex from a juvenile female runaway who was being sex trafficked in Bowling Green. He was placed on five years of probation.
The guilty plea was the result of a plea deal reached with prosecutors. Huff was originally indicted in the case on two counts of first-degree unlawful transaction with a minor and two counts of promoting a sexual performance by a minor.
(Photo: Randy R. Huff)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
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