KEL PATTON RD – Magoffin County Sheriff Department made a significant drug bust on Sunday night while answering a potential domestic violence call on Kel Patton Road.
On September 14, Magoffin County Sheriff Department Deputies Neil Watson and Tyler Lafferty were dispatched to a home on Kel Patton Road. Deputy Watson witnessed an individual he had arrested in the past for methamphetamine possession, as well as a woman walking around a structure on the property out of their sight, according to the arrest citation.
The woman, identified as Mary E. Gipson, 44, of Salyersville, was approached by law enforcement and asked what had happened or if she knew anything about the alleged altercation. According to the citation, she sat down on an item at the residence while telling the deputies about a reported verbal-only altercation.
While she was sitting there, a puppy named Fred came bouncing around playing and turned over an insulated drinking cup, but once the cup was turned over Deputy Watson noticed the depth inside the cup was around half the depth of the cup, according to the police report.
Police asked Gipson if she was staying clean and if she had any drugs on her or inside the residence, and she reportedly told them there was some methamphetamine and a few needles in the residence, according to the citation.
Deputy Lafferty entered the home and in less than a minute stepped out and told Deputy Watson to detain Gipson, noting there was methamphetamine and needles on a makeshift table, according to the police report.
Police found small bags of meth with 1.11 grams, a small bag with a marijuana leaf containing 1.58 grams of meth, two loaded syringes “rigs”, other items found with a total of 25.45 grams of marijuana packed in five different baggies, and two sets of digital scales.
According to the police report, Gipson was clinging to the insulated cup and kept moving it away from Deputy Watson. When asked what was in the cup, she stated nothing but her Cherry Coke. Deputy Watson examined the cup, again, and confirmed the depth did not match the size of the cup, so he grabbed the bottom of the cup where it was loos and twisted off the bottom, finding a black sock containing: a small clear bag with four 10 mg Hydrocodone, two 10 mg Oxycodone, one 7.5 mg Oxycodone; small bags containing suspected methamphetamine, with one tied clear knot bag with 20.5 grams of meth, and a small clear bag with 34.63 grams of meth; small bags containing purple fentanyl, one with 6.32 and another with 2.76 grams; and five individual bags of what appeared to be brown and yellow heroin totaling 196.21 grams.
Gipson was taken into custody and transported to the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center, where she remains held on a $25,000 cash bond at press time, facing the following charges: trafficking in a controlled substance, first offense (Carfentanil or Fentanyl derivatives); trafficking in a controlled substance, first degree, second or greater offense (greater than or equal to 2 grams methamphetamine); trafficking in a controlled substance, first offense (heroin); trafficking in marijuana (less than 8 oz.) first offense; two counts of trafficking in a controlled substance first offense and buying or possessing drug paraphernalia.
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