Overview
- During a Dec. 22 narcotics investigation in Jeffersontown, a K-9 alerted to a vehicle just outside Louisville.
- Police released photos of trunk boxes wrapped in Christmas paper that they say concealed suspected methamphetamine.
- Jacob Talamantes, 23, of Nebraska was detained after trying to walk away and was arrested at the scene.
- He faces a first-degree trafficking charge, and investigators say he reported traveling from Iowa to traffic the drugs.
- Jeffersontown Police credited Kentucky State Police and the DEA with assistance, and they say additional charges are possible as the probe continues.