A drug roundup in Pulaski County is targeting lower-level dealers ahead of future efforts against higher-level offenders.
Forty-seven drug-related indictments with nearly 70 felony charges have been handed down this week by a local grand jury. Pulaski County Sheriff’s Deputy Karl Clinard says this week’s efforts by federal, state, county, and city law enforcement groups have been aimed at those selling prescription pills and methamphetamine, with a growing number of heroin dealers also targeted.
“The commonwealth of Kentucky is suffering a considerable amount of impact from heroin, and we’re trying to work on that. That’s a higher-level drug that we’re trying to incorporate into our round ups.”
Clinard says that information gained from this week’s arrests will be used to target higher-level drug traffickers in the Pulaski County region.
This week's roundup was a combined effort of the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office, the Lake Cumberland Area Task Force, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Kentucky State Police, Kentucky State Police Drug Enforcement/Special Investigations East, Kentucky Office of the Attorney General, Somerset Police Department, Burnside Police Department, Science Hill Police Department, Ferguson Police Department and Eubank Police Department.