PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A Pike County woman with an extensive criminal history was arrested yet again on Thursday, charged with fleeing police and drug trafficking.

Amber Gibson, 32, of Pikeville, was spotted driving on Cassady Boulevard by a Pikeville patrolman who knew that she was the subject of seven warrants for not showing up for court in various criminal cases. But when the officer attempted to pull her over, she allegedly took off instead, driving the wrong way in the northbound lanes of U.S. 23.
She eventually led police to Keyser Heights Drive, where she reportedly got out of her car and tried to run into an apartment before being captured.
The officer wrote in his report that she continued trying to get away and threw something onto the porch of the apartment, which police later learned was four bags of fentanyl and a wallet with more than $6,000 in cash.
Inside the apartment, police found more fentanyl, along with heroin, meth, pills, a loaded gun and several trafficking materials.
Gibson was jailed on a long list of charges, including fleeing police, wanton endangerment, four counts of drug trafficking and much more.
Gibson has at least 11 previous felony convictions in Pike County and is awaiting sentencing in several more cases.
