Drug Crimes

People in Kentucky may be aware that some criminals can be extradited from other countries to face charges in the United States. On May 20, the Foreign Ministry of Mexico announced that since the United States had agreed to not seek the death penalty against the head...

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety commissioned a study that looked at how several states where marijuana is legal determined whether a person was impaired by marijuana usage while driving. The study found the tests used to determine impairment were scientifically...

Police in Kentucky have reported that two Harrodsburg residents were taken into custody on drug possession charges during the early morning hours of March 31. After being processed, the two men, who are 31 and 44 years of age, were transported to a detention facility...

On Feb. 16, police arrested the meteorologist for a Paducah, Kentucky, television station on suspicion of growing marijuana at her Mayfield residence. Her husband was also taken into custody. The 32-year-old weather forecaster, who works for WPSD-TV, and her...

Kentucky State Police troopers say that they received consent to search the home of a Calloway County couple before charging the couple with various drug offenses. Troopers were at the Murray home on Nov. 10 to investigate a complaint about harassment. When troopers...

Some political observers think Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a target painted on his back. He could be ousted from his post one of these days just as House Speaker John Boehner was recently deposed, but for right now, the senior senator from Kentucky...

He's a young man with a golden arm and a long list of legal troubles. The Murray State University Racers dismissed quarterback Zeke Pike -- a former five-star recruit with stops at the University of Louisville and Auburn University -- after his recent arrest.Coach...

It's a little over an hour's drive from Marshall County to Hopkins County. The county northeast of Benton was recently the site of the arrests of 13 people on drug trafficking charges.Law enforcement officials say officers confiscated more than 50 pounds of synthetic...

It was an image that caught the attention of people across the nation. A woman who had been arrested for trafficking methamphetamine was wearing a t-shirt in her mug shot that proclaimed in big letters, "I Heart Crystal Meth."The arrest photo taken 300 miles east of...

According to drug experts, methamphetamine users take the drug in a variety of ways, including smoking it, snorting it and dissolving it in water and then injecting it. No matter how it is consumed, the substance is said by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to...