{"id":39944,"date":"2026-08-06T16:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=39944"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:30:04","slug":"west-coast-parcel-bluegrass-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/08\/06\/west-coast-parcel-bluegrass-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Parcel, Bluegrass Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"
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McCracken County Sheriff’s Office<\/strong> – 8\/6\/26 – On Wednesday, August 5, 2026, detectives with the McCracken County Sheriff’s Office, working in coordination with the United States Postal Inspection Service<\/strong>, concluded an investigation involving the delivery of a parcel suspected of containing methamphetamine.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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During the investigation, detectives observed James Knight, 32, of Apple Valley, California, and Tylor A. Crews, 33, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pick up a parcel that had been shipped from Compton, California, to a residence in Paducah.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At approximately 1:38 p.m., detectives observed the vehicle commit traffic infractions and conducted a traffic stop on South 22nd Street in Paducah. During the stop, a McCracken County Sheriff’s Office certified narcotics detection K-9 conducted an open-air sniff of the vehicle and alerted to the odor of illegal narcotics. A subsequent search resulted in the recovery of a quantity of marijuana from Knight’s person, and detectives located the parcel inside the vehicle.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The parcel was found to contain approximately over two pounds of suspected methamphetamine.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Knight was arrested and charged with:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Failure to or Improper Signal<\/div>\n
Careless Driving<\/div>\n
Trafficking in a Controlled Substance, First Degree (Methamphetamine)<\/div>\n
Possession of Drug Paraphernalia<\/div>\n
Failure to Produce an Insurance Card<\/div>\n
Possession of Marijuana<\/div>\n
Crews was arrested and charged with:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Trafficking in a Controlled Substance, First Degree (Methamphetamine)<\/div>\n
Both men have extensive criminal histories and were lodged in the McCracken County Regional Jail.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The McCracken County Sheriff’s Office was assisted in this investigation by the Paducah Police Department, the United States Postal Inspection Service, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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McCracken County Sheriff’s Office – 8\/6\/26 – On Wednesday, August 5, 2026, detectives with the McCracken County Sheriff’s Office, working in coordination with the United States Postal Inspection Service, concluded an investigation involving the delivery of a parcel suspected of containing methamphetamine. During the investigation, detectives observed James Knight, 32, of Apple Valley, California, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-postal-crime","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39950,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39944\/revisions\/39950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}