Louisville, KY – On May 6, 2025, a federal grand jury in Louisville charged a total of 20 defendants from across Kentucky and California in 3 separate indictments involving methamphetamine and fentanyl trafficking offenses and firearms offenses. On May 21, 2025, a federal grand jury charged 4 defendants, 2 of whom were previously charged, in an indictment involving methamphetamine and fentanyl trafficking and money laundering offenses. The indictments charging all 22 defendants were the result of a lengthy investigation conducted by multiple law enforcement agencies.

KENTUCKY (WKYT) - A man is facing several charges after a Madison County Drug Task Force investigation.

Kevin D. Sanders, 48, of Chicago, was taken into custody after a search warrant was executed at a residence in Fayette County on April 24.

The search warrant was a result of a months-long drug trafficking investigation.

Kentucky State Police says the search led to the seizure of approximately:

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- An Elizabethtown man was arrested Friday after police said they found 17 pounds of crystal meth as well as cocaine, Oxycodone, marijuana and steroids on Bardstown Road just east of Elizabethtown.

The Hardin County Drug Enforcement Task Force said in a news release Monday that it executed a search warrant in the area Friday afternoon and arrested Marvin Brookins. The warrant resulted in the seizure of:

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — Several pounds of drugs were seized in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and police are searching for the suspect.

Thursday, The Bowling Green - Warren County Drug Task Force, with assistance from the Warren County Sheriff's Office and Kentucky State Police, executed a search warrant at a home on Walnut Creek Court in Bowling Green.

During the search, 18 pounds of meth, 6,000 fentanyl tablets, 11 pounds of cocaine, three pounds of marijuana, almost a pound of ecstasy, four handguns and more than $300,000 in cash were seized.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —

The FBI said more than 20 suspected drug traffickers in the Louisville region have been arrested, and they're looking for more.

FBI was seen raiding several locations across Louisville on Tuesday.

Later in the day, the U.S. Department of Justice released names of 34 people across the city and in southern Indiana connected to a drug investigation called "Operation Frozen River."

At least six of these suspects were arrested on Tuesday.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - Three people have been arrested by the Bowling Green-Warren County Drug Task Force after they investigated a forged prescription case in Bowling Green.

Dominic Escamilla, 21, of Aurora, Illinois, was charged with third-degree criminal mischief. resisting arrest, first-degree criminal possession of a forged prescription and attempting to obtain a controlled substance by fraud.

Deion Fisher, 26, of Dolton, Illinois, was charged with first-degree criminal possession of a forged prescription and attempting to obtain a controlled substance by fraud.

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - Two Bowling Green men were arrested Wednesday after the Bowling Green-Warren County Drug Task Force seized 80 pounds of crystal methamphetamine with a street value of over $500,000.

“This is the largest seizure of Crystal methamphetamine ever in warren county. I think about a year and a half, two years ago we had a case that just recently settled in federal court where we seized 44 pounds of crystal meth, so it’s almost double that,” said Tommy Loving, Director of the Drug Task Force.

Local, state and federal law enforcement authorities seized one kilogram of methamphetamine from a southern Laurel County motel early Friday morning, and have charged a Nicholasville man and a Corbin woman in connection with the case, according to a Laurel County Sheriff’s Department release.

The joint drug investigation was conducted between the 75/80 Drug Interdiction Team, ATF and Kentucky State Police at 3:13 a.m. that resulted in a search warrant being sought and executed on the motel room, the release stated.

LONDON, Ky. – Investigators from the DEA Criminal Diversion Group, the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office, the Barbourville Police Department, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, and the Manchester Police Department arrested twelve people, and seized approximately 10,000 diverted oxycodone pills and over $2,000,000 in U.S. Currency, as the result of an investigation into a Louisville-based drug trafficking operation.

MT. STERLING, Ky. (WTVQ) – A multi-agency investigation over 10 months resulted in the indictment recently of nine people in a 27-count federal drug trafficking indictment.

The work was done by the Gateway Area Drug Task Force which said the indictments disrupted a “large-scale drug trafficking organization.”

The nine people indicted on federal drug charges included: