The jailhouses werenât jumping to much over the weekend, with the exception of Boyd County, which saw an influx of federal inmates moving through as they await court hearings at the federal court house in downtown Ashland.
While a few notorious names found themselves on the booking logs at Boyd, lock-ups were light, for the most part â fewer than five of the inmates booked over the weekend at Boyd were due to charges incurred on the street.
Bench warrants made a good bulk of the arrests over the weekend as well, especially at the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center.
RUSSELL Merely days after clearing 2 pounds of crystal meth off the streets, a DEA-led drug task force has struck again, this time seizing the largest-ever amount of the drug in the city of Russell.
Jack Sparks, the DEA head of West Virginia â which oversees Greenup, Boyd and Carter counties in Kentucky â called the busts âjust the beginning of this type of enforcement in this area.â
On Sunday, the DEAâs Tri-State Narcotics Team seized 3 pounds of methamphetamine at the Best Western Hotel in Russell, arresting 29-year-old Marquise Glass of Detroit, Michigan. Prior to the raid, Russell Police had stopped a vehicle near the hotel, arresting four others on a mix of charges.