Has anyone ever figured out why they were sent to that address to start with? No drugs were found, so if they were not mistakenly sent to that address they got some bad info from someone or there was tipoff before the cops got there.
It is really an interesting case. Here are some of the details.
Misinformation shared on social media suggested the officers showed up at the wrong house, but police had a search warrant signed by Circuit Judge Mary Shaw for Taylor's address and for her.
The eight-page LMPD report reinforces, however, that Taylor was not the main target of the narcotics investigation, which initially centered around other individuals accused of selling drugs.
The report's author was Detective Joshua Jaynes, who secured the March 12 warrant for Taylor's home and four suspected drug houses.
The report also shows that LMPD's new
Place-Based Investigations Squad spent about 2½ months conducting heavy surveillance.
Taylor was linked to the suspects in that investigation, according to the report, because a car registered in her name stopped in early January at one of the properties being watched.
Moreover, it states that Jamarcus Glover,
a convicted drug dealer and Taylor's former boyfriend, picked up a package at her home Jan. 16 while police were watching him.
The report further says:
- It was Mattingly, the officer who was shot at Taylor's apartment, who asked the postal service whether Glover was receiving packages at Taylor's apartment. Jaynes wrote in a March 12 sworn affidavit for a search warrant that he had verified that Glover was receiving packages at Taylor's home through a postal inspector (a Louisville postal inspector later told WDRB news that wasn't true).
- Glover listed Taylor's home as his address on a Chase bank account, and a search warrant for the account was executed on March 19, sixdays after her death.
- Glover listed Taylor's phone number as his when he filed a complaint against a police officer in February for towing his red Dodge Charger for a parking violation.
Jaynes is on administrative reassignment pending an investigation of "
how and why the search warrant was approved," interim Police Chief Robert Schroeder said in June.
The May 1 report was co-signed by Detective Kelly Goodlett, another Place-Based Investigations officer who also authored a
controversial 39-page LMPD report written after Taylor's death that detailed her ties with Glover, the main suspect in the narcotics case.
Glover
told The Louisville Courier Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network, in an Aug. 26 interview that Taylor had nothing to do with illicit drugs. He also denied that Taylor had been holding money for him, despite telling a caller that she was during a taped phone conversation March 13 at Metro Corrections.
