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PRESCRIPTION PILLS FROM
MICHIGAN AND MORE THAN
17-THOUSAND DOLLARS IN
CASH ARE RECOVERED
DURING A DRUG BUST AT THE
MALL SAINT MATTHEWS.
W-L-K-Y'S ANNA-LYSA GAYLE
IS LIVE AT METRO
CORRECTIONS TONIGHT
WITH NEW
DETAILS FROM
NARCOTICS DETECTIVES...
ANNA
-LYSA?
MAJOR
HATMAKER
SAYS
DRUGS AR
E A MAJOR
PROBLEM FUELING CR
IME IN
THE AREA.
THIS TIME NA
RCOTICS
DETECTIVES WERE ABLE TO
GET TO A LARGE AMOUNT OF
DRUGS BEFORE THEY HIT
THE
STREETS.
Major Ken Hatmaker: You got stop
signs,
street name for the 40s. Xanax
bars.
OVER THREE THOUSAND
PRESCRIPTION PILLS, COUGH
SYRUP, THOUSANDS OF
DOLLARS IN CASH,
DISPOSABLE VISAS AND
NUMEROUS CELL PHONES
WERE RECOVERED
FOLLOWING AN
INVESTIGATION THAT
STARTED IN OLDHAM
COUNTY.
ON MONDAY NIGHT, POLICE
ARRESTED 50-YEAR-OLD
KEVIN RIGBY SENIOR, 33-
YEAR-OLD AMBER
BEAUMONT
AND 35-YEAR-OLD GABRIEL
HARRIS AT THE MALL ST.
MATTHEWS.
Major Ken Hatmaker: I assume
they
wanted a crowded area for cover
for the
sake of blending in.
DETECTIVES SAY FOR
MONTHS RIGBY AND HARRIS
WOULD TRAVEL FROM
DETROIT, MICHIGAN WITH
PRESCRIPTION PILLS THAT
BEAUMONT, A MORTGAGE
BROKER IN NEW ALBANY,
WOULD THEN SELL ON THE
STREETS.
Major Ken Hatmaker: They've got
a clean
phone and a dirty phone, they've
got a
clean job, a legitimate source
of income.
They can show the government on
paper
what they're doing, here's the
real source
of the income.
THE DRUGS WORTH
BETWEEN 25 AND 30-
THOUSAND DOLLARS ON THE
STREETS---WERE FOUND ON
THE SUSPECTS AND INSIDE
AN OLDHAM COUNTY HOTEL.
BEAUMONT IS NOW OUT OF
JAIL.
IN A STATEMENT SHE SAYS "I
JUST GOT CAUGHT UP WITH
THE WRONG PEOPLE" AND
SHE DENIES THE
ALLEGATIONS.
Major Ken Hatmaker: This affects
more
than just drug users, more than
just drug
dealers, this affects businesses
that get
broken into. People's homes that
are
burglarized and have their
valuables, their
family heir looms pawned for
what you
see in front of you.
MAJOR KEN HATMAKER SAYS
THE DEPARTMENT WILL
CONTINUE WORKING TO
KEEP DRUGS OFF THE
STREETS. IN HOPES OF
REDUCING CRIME.
Major Ken Hatmaker: "This is not
the first
and it won't be the last. It