Puppy tips off deputies on Magoffin County woman’s alleged drug stash

SALYERSVILLE, Ky. (FOX 56) — A Magoffin County woman was arrested on Sunday after a puppy tipped off deputies to an alleged drug stash.

According to an arrest citation, deputies were called to a home Kel Patton Road for a reported domestic violence situation.

When the deputies arrived, they saw Mary Gipson, 44, walking around a building, but one deputy called out to hear to keep her in sight. In the citation, a deputy noted Gipson had previously been arrested for drug possession.

Deputies said while discussing the domestic violence call with Gipson, a puppy named Fred came by and knocked over her insulated drinking cup. A deputy noticed the cup was only half as deep as the outside.

The deputy asked Gipson about drugs, and she allegedly admitted to having some meth and needles in the home, which another deputy allegedly found later.

The citation said Gipson was “clinging to the insulated cup and kept moving it away.” The deputy asked what was inside it and Gipson said it was cherry Coke.

The deputy allegedly looked inside the cup and confirmed the cup’s depth didn’t match the size of the cup.

“I grabbed the bottom of the cup where it was loose and twisted right,” the deputy wrote in the report.

There was allegedly a black footy sock inside with hydrocodone, oxycodone, and qxycodone inside.

Gipson was arrested and charged with five counts of drug trafficking and possession of drug paraphernalia.

She was booked into the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville on a $25,000 bond.