Two Louisville residents were arrested Monday on drug trafficking charges after police say they were selling marijuana and THC products from a Louisville warehouse.
Police say they caught the suspects, Tara Lyles and James Lyles, with the help of their TikTok pages.
Kentucky State Police have been keeping an eye on the Lyles’ since February, when they got a tip the two were operating a large-scale drug operation involving marijuana and THC products. The two were allegedly posting videos of the drug-making process on their TikTok pages.
Kentucky State Police detectives used the information to set up an undercover operation. One of the detectives set up a meeting to buy some marijuana off of Tara Lyles at a Kroger parking lot.
When the “buy” happened, Lyles allegedly told the undercover detective that she “packages the product on a thousands level scale and just completed a 1,000 pack order over the weekend.”
With that information, the TikTok videos and information gained from a GPS tracking device, police were able to track the suspects down to a warehouse on Bishop Lane in Louisville’s Newburg area. Police say they also discovered the two had operations out of an Oldham County facility.
Kentucky State Police detectives executed a search warrant on the Newburg warehouse in April. Inside they found a large marijuana edible production area and four safes containing THC products and marijuana “flower.”
All in all, police seized 218 pounds of marijuana from the warehouse, worth an estimated $440,485 on the street.
Both Tara and James Lyles were charged with trafficking marijuana. Tara Lyles was also charged with possession of drugs/drug paraphernalia.
Source: WAVE
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