{"id":18858,"date":"2018-04-28T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T14:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=18858"},"modified":"2018-05-07T23:06:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T03:06:17","slug":"dea-to-open-new-office-in-paducah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2018\/04\/28\/dea-to-open-new-office-in-paducah\/","title":{"rendered":"DEA To Open New Office In Paducah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18859\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2018\/04\/28\/dea-to-open-new-office-in-paducah\/8d36604d-af16-471b-bdfb-80ee67b88222\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/8D36604D-AF16-471B-BDFB-80EE67B88222.jpeg?fit=810%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"810,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"8D36604D-AF16-471B-BDFB-80EE67B88222\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/8D36604D-AF16-471B-BDFB-80EE67B88222.jpeg?fit=810%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/8D36604D-AF16-471B-BDFB-80EE67B88222.jpeg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/8D36604D-AF16-471B-BDFB-80EE67B88222.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/8D36604D-AF16-471B-BDFB-80EE67B88222.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/8D36604D-AF16-471B-BDFB-80EE67B88222.jpeg?w=810&amp;ssl=1 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nThe U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is planning to open a new post in Paducah.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A release from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s office says the Republican from Kentucky urged the DEA to consider a &#8220;tremendous upsurge in the amount of methamphetamine and synthetic cannabinoids imported and distributed in western Kentucky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DEA also has a post in Madisonville and last year announced that it was placing a new field office in Louisville to battle the spread of opioid abuse. The Louisville office has a special agent in charge who oversees investigations in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The release from McConnell&#8217;s office says the senator advocated for the Paducah post to DEA Administrator Robert Patterson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is planning to open a new post in Paducah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-4Ua","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 16:17:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18860,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18858\/revisions\/18860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}