Nearly 70 pounds of drugs seized from Bowling Green ‘stash house’

Nearly 70 pounds of drugs seized from Bowling Green 'stash house'
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (FOX 56) — Multiple agencies converged on Monday night to carry out a search warrant at a “stash house” that had been housing dozens of pounds of illegal drugs in Bowling Green.

The Warren County Sheriff’s Office (WCSO) posted on Facebook that on Sept. 22, after investigating and identifying the house, members of the Bowling Green–Warren County Drug Task Force were able to establish probable cause and get a search warrant for a building on the 700 block of West Main Avenue.

Deputies wrote that the warrant was executed around 9:30 p.m. on Monday by the drug task force, along with WCSO deputies and multiple other agencies.

During the task force’s search, authorities wrote that the following drugs had been seized:

  • 36 pounds of “Mexican crystal methamphetamine”
  • 30 pounds of processed marijuana
  • 2 pounds of powder cocaine
  • 14.6 grams of powder fentanyl
  • Numerous items of drug paraphernalia, which were reportedly consistent with a large-scale narcotics trafficking operation

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According to the WCSO, details of the investigation are being sent to the Warren County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office and the United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky to see which jurisdiction is most appropriate for the case to be prosecuted.

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Officials with the Bowling Green–Warren County Drug Task Force carried out a search warrant for a “stash house” on West Main Avenue on Monday night.
(Warren County Sheriff’s Office)

More information about the drug seizure will be released as it becomes available.


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