THEALKA, Ky. — A Johnson County woman was arrested for drug trafficking, following an investigation by Kentucky State Police.
Officers with KSP’s Drug Enforcement Special Investigations Unit received a tip about meth trafficking at a Boyd Branch, so they went to the house for a “knock-and-talk” to check it out. No one answered the door, but as they prepared to leave, two cars pulled up, including one driven by Samantha Fyffe-Jarrell, 35, of Hager Hill. Jarrell was one of the suspects police had been told had been selling drugs from the home, so they went to talk to her.
When troopers asked her if she had any drugs in the car, she reportedly said, “Yeah, there’s dope in the car,” then put her head down and asked the officers not to arrest her. Jarrell reportedly produced a bag containing 33 grams of meth from her purse and handed it over. She told police she had bought it from a source in Huntington, W.Va., who she met at a Louisa gas station.
A later search turned up another 3.5 grams also in her purse. Then, when she was being booked in jail, she told guards she had fentanyl hidden in her pants.
Fyffe-Jarrell is now charged with meth trafficking, fentanyl trafficking and promoting contraband. She is being held in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville.
