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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SALYERSVILLE, Ky. — A Magoffin County man was arrested after police received a tip that he was on his way to sell meth. Deputies with the Magoffin County Sheriff’s Office were told that Matthew Roger Owens, 50, of Salyersville, was at a Salyersville gas station and on his way to sell meth. The officers found him in the passenger seat of an SUV still at the gas station and went to talk to him. The police report notes that when they asked Owens to step out of the vehicle to talk to them, they noticed a square bulge in his […]

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GULNARE, Ky. — Two people are dead following a house fire early Sunday morning in Pike County. The fire was reported just before 6:30 a.m. Sunday morning at a home along Brushy Road. Firefighters discovered two bodies inside the home. The bodies have been sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy and identification, but Kentucky State Police says foul play is not suspected. The case remains under investigation.

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