LOUISVILLE, Ky.- A detailed investigation report written more than a month after Louisville Metro police shot and killed Breonna Taylor in her apartment on March 13, provides the first full look at the narcotics case that brought police officers to her doorstep.
Although police did not take any drugs or cash out of the 26-year-old emergency technician’s department at the southern end of Louisville, the May 1 police report shows how officials connected Taylor to a drug investigation centered 16 km away, largely based on evidence.that has since been challenged …
The explanation for why police targeted Taylor’s apartment for a court order after being a key factor in the case, as his shooting turned into a national war cry for racial justice in May.
After police used a battering ram to open Taylor’s door, her boyfriend Kenneth Walker fired a bachelorette shot, which police say hit the sergeant.Jonathan Mattingly in the femoral artery.
Mattingly, along with Detective Myles Cosgrove and now fired from Detective Brett Hankison, responded to the fire and killed Taylor.Walker’s lawyer said Tuesday that a partner is more likely to shoot Matt than Walker.
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False data shared on social media suggests officials showed up at the house, however, police had a court order signed through circuit judge Mary Shaw for Taylor’s confrontation with and for her.
However, the eight-page LMPD report reinforces the fact that Taylor was not the number one target of the narcotics investigation, which first targeted other Americans accused of promoting drugs.
The report was Detective Joshua Jaynes, who received the March 12 arrest warrant for Taylor’s house and four alleged drug traffickers.
The report also indicates that the new local LDC investigative brigade spent about two and a half months conducting comprehensive surveillance.
Taylor connected with the suspects in the investigation, according to the report, when a car registered in his call stopped in early January at one of the houses under surveillance.
He also reports that Jamarcus Glover, a convicted drug dealer and Taylor’s ex-boyfriend, picked up a package from his home on January 16 while police were watching him.
The report reads:
Jaynes is in administrative reassignment pending an investigation into “how and why the search warrant was approved,” Acting Police Chief Robert Schroeder said in June.
The May 1 report co-authored Detective Kelly Goodlett, another local investigative officer who also wrote a 39-page questionable report on the LMPD written after Taylor’s death detailing his links to Glover, the prime suspect in the narcotics case.
Glover told the Louisville Courier Journal, a component of USA TODAY, in an interview on August 26 that Taylor had nothing to do with illicit drugs.He also denied that Taylor had cash for him, told a caller that she was talking on the phone verbally.exchange recorded at Metro Corrections on March 13.
Police suspected, according to May de Jaynes’ report, that Glover “could keep narcotics and/or profits from selling narcotics to (Taylor’s apartment) to keep them safe.”
An asset seizure record ended after Taylor’s apartment was searched after the shooting mentioned drugs or money.
The report states that the investigation into the alleged drug trafficking continued beyond the execution of Taylor’s search warrants and death on March 13.
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According to Jaynes, The Place-Based Investigations Squad, a unit created in December 2019 to focus on small spaces “covered in violent crimes,” first targeting a domain between South 26th Street and West Broadway, adding Elliott Avenue.
Detectives amassed service calls, incident reports and drug crime leads, which First Division officials had conducted narcotics records in December 2019 at 3 residences.
Agent Charles Heller wrote in three court order affidavits on December 30 that a confidential informant had reported other people promoting crack in 2424 Elliott Ave.within 48 hours, and the driving force of a vehicle stopped by police reported that other people were also 2605 W Muhammad Ali Blvd.for the sale of medicines.
Police orders to search for Glover, along with Dominique Crenshaw, De’Marius Bowman and Cleve Knight.
An opinion on whose signature is not legible signed all 3 orders and legal police’s request for a “no-hit”.
Heller wrote that it is vital that court orders are “no punch” because “it is not unusual for drug traffickers to protect their drugs with weapons” and that the story of criminals from well-known affiliates has created a “particularly harmful situation.”
“It has been determined,” Jaynes wrote, “that the epicenter of drug trafficking in the 2424 Elliott Ave domain.”
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As a result of this decision, officials introduced weeks of surveillance: installation of a police camera, car tracking and pedestrian and traffic control.
In the weeks leading up to the execution of search warrants on March 13, a confidential informant running with police went to Elliott Avenue and showed that narcotics were sold there, according to the summary of Jaynes’ investigation.
Taylor is much discussed in the report, however, here’s what the police say:
Since then, Glover has defied some of these surveillance tests.
He told the Courier Journal in an interview on August 26 that he was involved in stealing deliveries to his home and that Taylor had agreed to have the pieces sent to his apartment.
“Nothing even illegal there, ” he said.” Putting shoes and clothes in the mail is not illegal.Nothing illegal at all.”
Glover also noted that LMPD had an outdoor surveillance camera 2424 Elliott Ave., so he said police knew Taylor wasn’t doing anything illegal when she arrived.
“We were literally left out,” Glover said. “They had her camera … They have figured out everything. No illegal activity. A hug is illegal … She doesn’t bring me boxes, she doesn’t bring anything.” .
The leaked LMPD report detailing Taylor and Glover’s links concerned recorded calls, adding one made hours after his fatal police shooting, in which Glover told his friend Kiera Bradley that Taylor had $8,000 for him and that she had “managed all my money.””
Bradley told the Courier Journal in an interview on August 31 that she thought her verbal exchange had Glover say so.
“I think he only said that because he had a connection.I say, ‘Where’s your money?’ I get angry.You can see the calls, I’m talking about my daughter Array … You know, it’s an argument.I think she had all my cash because she had a connection, ” said Bradley.
No evidence is included that Taylor has cash for Glover in Jaynes’ May report, however, notes that a court order in Glover’s Chase bank account, approved through a sentence passed six days after Taylor’s death, shows glover indexed his apartment as Taylor’s Springfield.Apartment. Drive, ” wrote Jaynes.
(The criminal discovery record in Glover’s pending case includes a Chase Bank record received through police, through a grand jury subpoena on February 6, which lists Glover’s confrontation as Taylor’s springfield Drive apartment.)
Records reviewed through the Courier Journal show that police had also signed search warrants for glover-connected phone numbers that would have allowed them to review call data and locations.
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The search warrant’s affidavits of March 12 and the May 1 report involve any evidence received through this effort.
However, one of taylor’s phone numbers traced Taylor’s.
Police filed a court order for his phone number on February 17, after Glover “attempted to file a complaint” three days earlier against an officer who had towed his Dodge Charger for a parking violation, Jaynes wrote.Number.
The order, signed and sealed on February 17 through Judge Jefferson Circuit Charles Cunningham, allowed police to send all text messages, call details, mobile tower locations and detailed subscriber data “that will be useful for investigation” over a 30-day era.
Jaynes wrote that she “received data that Breonna Taylor would possibly be Jamarcus Glover’s alleged friend” and “it is not unusual for drug dealers to use phone numbers with other names to be detected by the police.”
Jaynes added that “phone ping” would allow police to take a look at Glover’s “criminal enterprise” and potentially locate “other posts that will assist in the investigation” because police had “exhausted traditional means of surveillance.”
There is no indication of when the police are ordering this.
On February 21, 4 days after obtaining the first court order, Jaynes received another sealed search warrant for a Cingular Wireless phone number that police believed belonged to Glover.This order also does not record when it was executed.
Glover’s ongoing criminal case discovery record also includes a record of Taylor dated May 18, more than two months after his death.
After March 13, detectives watched pedestrians and cars moving the elliott Avenue pole camera, which they said indicated the continuation of the drug trade.
“While traffic isn’t as intense as it used to be, it’s transparent that those other people are still promoting narcotics from this place,” Jaynes wrote.
Over the next few weeks, detectives made at least three car traffic stops leaving Elliott Avenue’s home, once for not wearing a seat belt and once for turning around, and discovered drugs in the cars.
One of those stops led Goodlett to write a note on April 8 to the city’s email accounts and Metro 311, documenting the most recent asset violation: this is “strike 3”.
City documents show that Goodlett and site-based Initiative officials had worked intensively with the city’s code and regulation branch for months to guard Elliott Avenue’s home.
On January 22, the owner, Law Mar Inc., and Gerald Happle, won their first discovery of criminal activity that “constitutes public nuisance.”
On 17 March, after the thirteen March authorizations, the assets were officially considered a public in the way.
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Stop by the next day to ask about the gift of the house.
The people ordered Happle to leave space on April 13. By then, Happle had already given its tenants the bill to vacate the space and signed an application to donate the space to the town.
On April 22, executed detectives seek a warrant at 2424 Elliott Ave, the third in five months.
Police discovered alleged accessories related to crack, ecstasy or MDMA, marijuana and drugs, Jaynes wrote.
On the same day, with the city’s code and regulations department, police cleared and boarded 2424 Elliott Ave.
On June 5, which would have been Taylor’s 27th birthday, Happle signed the house deed.The city paid $1.
Contributor: Phillip Bailey, USA TODAY.
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