Nearly 40 people, many from Louisville, were recently arrested after police seized 252 pounds of meth and 12 kilos of cocaine at a Bullitt County gas station.
The bust, touted as the infiltration of a “major drug organization,” was the latest result of a federal investigation into a pipeline of illegal drugs making their way from Mexico across the border and up to Kentucky and Indiana.
“We’re mostly seeing the networks driving through the state of Kentucky,” said Erek Davodowich, special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Louisville Field Office. “So what we know is that the two major cartels that are responsible for bringing and sending forth fentanyl, methamphetamine all the drugs that come in.”
The DEA said drugs purchased in California are priced low, but once they make their way to Louisville, they are marked up much higher. The reason for that, partially, is the risk involved in transporting the drugs, risk that is passed on to the buyer.
The DEA, IRS Criminal Investigation and Owensboro Police Department worked on the large investigation conducted by the Organized Crime and Drug and Enforcement Task Force. Investigators said between March 2023 and August 2024, agents received a tip that led them to a Love’s gas station in Shepherdsville in Bullitt County, where two of the suspects met up.
Investigators said Deandre Williams and Djuan Truss were seen removing large boxes from a tractor trailer and placing them in the back seat of a pickup truck. The boxes contained more than 252 pounds of crystal meth and 12 kilos of cocaine with an estimated street value of more than $1 million.
Investigators said the drugs were believed to be headed to Western Kentucky and Southern Indiana.
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