It was recently revealed that testimony in an internal LMPD report showed that Louisville police were repeatedly told there were no packages, "suspicious or otherwise," delivered to Breonna Taylor's home in connection to a drug investigation prior to them issuing and executing the now defunct no-knock warrant.
In the report, officers asked two members of the Shively Police Department to check with a postal inspector and were told there were no packages being sent to Taylor’s home linked to a narcotics probe into her ex-boyfriend, Jamarcus Glover. The Shivley officers were enlisted due to the LMPD no longer working with the postal service as a result of an unspecified dispute from years prior. On March 12, one day before the search warrant was carried out, Detective Joshua Jaynes said he had "verified through a US Postal Inspector that Glover has been receiving packages" at Taylor’s home. However, U.S. postal inspector Tony Gooden stated that he told Jaynes in January that his office concluded that "no packages of interest [were] going there."
On May 18, the report showed that Shively police Sgt. Timothy Salyer said he reached out to Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, who was wounded in the raid, about the warrant affidavit in wake of the shooting. The report shows that Salyer said, "Sgt. Mattingly stated he told Detective Jaynes there was no package history at that address."
Jaynes was placed on administrative reassignment in June, and Det. Brett Hankison was the only officer charged in the incident. He was indicted on three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment related to gunshots fired into neighboring apartments, not those fired inside Taylor’s home.
Jefferson Circuit Judge Mary Shaw signed off on the search warrant for Taylor's home, and she is concerned that Detective Jaynes may have given her misleading information to obtain the warrant. Shaw told the Louisville Courier-Journal that she would defer to the FBI investigation.
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