LAKEVILLE – The Magoffin County Sheriff Department executed a search warrant at a home on Rose Branch Spur in the Lakeville community, yielding the confiscation of substantial quantities of drugs, firearms and other drug trafficking-related items, making an arrest in the case the next day.
Anthony Saylor
On Sunday, March 29, the Magoffin County Sheriff Department searched Eddie McFarland’s residence on Rose Branch Spur, seizing large quantities of methamphetamine, fentanyl and heroin, along with three firearms, methadone, multiple digital scales, and packaging materials used for distribution, according to the press release from the sheriff department.
“This is exactly the kind of work it takes to make our communities safer. That’s a significant amount of poison that will never make it to our streets,” Magoffin County Sheriff Bill Meade’s office released.
The sheriff’s office also disclosed that due to the quantity of narcotics seized and multiple undercover drug transactions, they are working with their federal law enforcement partners and the U.S. Attorney’s Office to secure federal indictments of all individuals involved in what they called a “drug trafficking organization.”
By Monday night, the sheriff department located and apprehended Anthony Saylor, 38, of East Maple St., Salyersville, following a traffic stop, identifying Saylor as one of the individuals who escaped custody during the search in Lakeville the night before, reporting that he was wanted on multiple outstanding warrants and is directly connected to the drug trafficking operation identified during that investigation.
“Let this serve as a warning: if you are involved in trafficking narcotics in this county, you may run and you may hide, but you will not evade law enforcement for long,” The sheriff’s office released. “We are persistent, and we are always closer than you think.”
Anthony D. Saylor was arrested on March 30 on U.S. 460, and taken to the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center, where he remains at press time, facing the following charges: trafficking in a controlled substance, first degree, first offense (greater than or equal to two grams of methamphetamine); trafficking in a controlled substance, first offense (heroin); and receiving stolen property $1,000<$10,000.
The SI will continue to follow this case as information is released.
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