Tag: Georgetown

  • Ricky Helton, Methamphetamine Trafficking, Kentucky 2024

    Ricky Helton, Methamphetamine Trafficking, Kentucky 2024

    ⏱ 2 min read Ricky Helton, a 48-year-old Georgetown, Kentucky man, was sentenced to 180 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. On October 24, 2024, Helton met an individual in Lexington to purchase methamphetamine, but law enforcement approached his vehicle and found one pound of the…

  • Hieu Trung Vu, Drug Trafficking, Washington 2025

    Hieu Trung Vu, Drug Trafficking, Washington 2025

    ⏱ 2 min read Hieu Trung Vu, a 37-year-old previously convicted felon and illegal alien from Vietnam, was operating a drug trafficking scheme out of a Georgetown Airbnb when he was busted by Metropolitan Police on December 4, 2025. Vu had no legal right to be in the US, no right to possess firearms, and…

  • Mabel Soto, Fentanyl Trafficking, Kentucky 2022

    Mabel Soto, Fentanyl Trafficking, Kentucky 2022

    ⏱ 2 min read A 70-year-old Georgetown woman, Mabel Francis Soto, has been sentenced to 60 months in prison for her role in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. Soto conspired with co-defendant Taylor Burden to sell drugs out of her residence in Georgetown, Kentucky. The conspiracy was busted on October 19, 2022, after law enforcement surveilled…