Four people were arrested last week after Nicholasville police officers found more than 300 pain pills, dozens of Xanax tablets and marijuana inside two Nicholasville hotel rooms.
Ricardo Cook, 33; Darrine Burton, 23; and Imari K. Lindsay, 23; all of Michigan; and Antonio L. Casey, of Oklahoma, were charged with conspiracy to traffic in a controlled substance, according to arrest records.
According to the arrest report, officers found the marijuana and pills in two adjacent rooms at the Homeplace Inn at 181 Imperial Way. The pain pills and Xanax were in the toilet tanks.
Nicholasville Police Sgt. Scott Harvey said the arrests were the result of an undercover operation.
All the suspects had large amounts of cash on them, Harvey said.
He is unsure if anything other than drug trafficking brought the suspects to Nicholasville.
“We believe they were here to traffic pills,” he said.
Harvey said he doesn’t believe there will be more arrests from that operation, but he can’t know for sure.
“I believe (officers) knew who they were looking for when they went in there,” he said. “But with a drug operation you never know when to put the lid on it.”
All four arrested were being held as of Wednesday morning in the Jessamine County Detention Center. Casey and Cook are being held on $25,000 cash bonds; Burton and Lindsay are being held on $10,000 cash bonds, according to jail records.
