The Northeast Kentucky Drug Task Force executed a search warrant which led to one of the largest drug busts involving fentanyl in Boyd County History, according to a news release.
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ASHLAND â An Ashland man was arrested Tuesday after a police investigation resulted in the seizure of heroin and fentanyl at a hotel.
Danny E. Hall, 42, of Ashland, was charged with two counts of trafficking in a controlled substance, first degree, for methamphetamine and heroin. He is housed at the Boyd County Detention Center.
According to the Ashland Police Department, the Northeast Kentucky Drug Task Force executed a search warrant at the Four Seasons Motel on Tuesday as a result of an investigation targeting Hall.
NKYDTF and members of the Ashland Police Department Criminal Investigations Section and the Field Operations Division executed the warrant about 3 p.m. Tuesday, which resulted in the seizure of what is believed to be a heroin and fentanyl mixture. A firearm was also found.
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ASHLAND Ashland Police and Fire calls were down in 2020, partially due to COVID and partially due to coming off a record-high year in 2019, according to city officials.
Police experienced about a 3,400-call decrease in service between 2019 and 2020, from 26,806 to 23,231. The fire decrease wasnât as dramatic of a drop, from 2,035 incidents in 2019 to 1,963 in 2020.
These are just a few of the observations made in the 2020 City of Ashland Accomplishments report.
Police
Chief Todd Kelley attributed most of the decrease in calls to COVID-19, especially in regards to car accidents. With more people working for home or in quarantine, Kelley said fewer motorists on the road meant fewer car crashes.
The back of a DEA vest is shown.
CATLETTSBURG While certainly Dr. Seuss didnât have Jack Sparks in mind when he wrote âOh the Places Youâll Go,â the message certainly tracks for the DEA agentâs long and well-traveled career.
Born in Boyd, Sparks put himself through college at then-Ashland Community College and Marshall University before becoming a patrolman for the Raceland Police Department back in 1989. In the 1990s, he worked as a detective for the Fivco Area Drug Enforcement Task Force, where he sank his teeth into narcotics work.
Sparks put in for a position at the DEA in 1994 â two years later, he found himself with a federal badge working drug cases in Miami, Florida. From there, Sparks went around the globe doing his part to stamp out the scourge of drugs â Texas, Afghanistan, Iraq, Cyprus and Washington, D.C., to name a few.