LOUISA, Ky. — An animal cruelty complaint led Louisa Police to make an arrest after discovering a marijuana grow operation. Police were called to investigate after two cats were found shot with a pellet gun on the property of the Millard Christian School in Louisa, killing one and injuring the other. Security video showed a truck known to be used by Marcus Wilkes, 47, had been on the property, so police obtained a search warrant for a pellet gun at his home. When officers went to search the home, they immediately smelled marijuana when Wilkes answered the door. Wilkes turned […]

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ALLEN, Ky. — A Laurel County man’s insistence that police were looking for him likely played a role in his arrest on drug trafficking charges. A Floyd County sheriff’s deputy was called to Allen, after someone reported finding drugs on the ground beside of Old Dwale Road. When a deputy arrived on the scene, he found a car parked on the side of the road, and the driver — identified as Kevin Wayne Quillen, 49, of London — got out and asked if the deputy was looking for him. When the deputy said he wasn’t, Quillen reportedly insisted he was, […]

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PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Pike County man arrested on drug charges in Floyd County last year is now ready to enter a guilty plea in his federal drug case. Keith Long, 34, of Wolfpit Branch, was pulled over on U.S. 23 at Harold after a deputy noticed him driving halfway on the shoulder. The deputy thought Long seemed nervous during the traffic stop, so he brought in a K-9 unit to sniff around the car, and the dog immediately alerted on the driver’s side of the truck. The deputy then found a lemonade container with a false bottom, containing 180 […]

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