The question arose as to whether Jamarcus Glover had received the packages at Taylor’s Lewisville address – the Louisville Metro Police Department’s drug investigation target.
Multiple law enforcement officials involved in the case told investigators they did not believe Glover received packages at Taylor’s address prior to the raid. But in a search warrant used to enter Taylor’s home, police said they “verified” that Glover had received “packages” there, according to the warrant.
The affidavit also claims that police “verified by a U.S. postal inspector that Jamarcus Glover receives packages at Taylor’s address”, and that “it is not uncommon for drug dealers to receive mail packages at various locations to get rid of law enforcement.” . “
In a transcript released by Louisville City, Sergeant. Shivli, a supervisor from the police department’s Special Investigation Unit, Timothy Celer, a supervisor from Kentucky, told May and investigators that he and another officer, Shivli Dat. Mike Kuzma was contacted by Sergeant Louisville. John Mattingley on January 17th. Cellar said Mattingley had asked if any packages for Glover had been sent to Taylor’s address, if they had been sent to the U.S. Can check with the Postal Inspection Service.
Salier told investigators that LMPD officers had a habit of handling postal inspector requests through a separate agency because there was “bad blood” from a previous incident between the LMPD and the postal inspector. “They don’t want to deal more with Louisville metro units,” Slayer said of the inspectors.
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The details of the previous incident were retrieved from the identified transcript.
Separately interviewed by Louisville investigators – Slayer and Kuzma said they checked with their postal inspector contact to see if Glover had received the package at Taylor’s address. Contact Salar and Kuzma both did not follow investigators.
“I said to John Mattingley, you know, ‘Hey there’s no parcel.’ “It simply came to our notice then,” Kuzma told investigators. “
A few weeks later, however, Kuzma said another detective from Louisville approached him, asking him to run the same address through the postal inspector. Kuzma said he told her he had already asked, and there were no packages sent to Glover.
Kuzma told investigators that “after a while,” (detective) Mike Nobles arrived and asked the same question. “
Kuzma said he also told Nobles that there was no package.
Kuzma told investigators he did not know if other packages, such as Amazon, were being delivered. In the transcript, Kuzma does not mention whether he even told Nobles.
Kuzma told investigators he did not know if the inspector meant there was no package, or “if they were found, such as, Amazon bx.” In the transcript, Kuzma did not specify whether he had spoken to any of the LMPD officials.
“They told me no,” he said of the postal inspectors, “and that’s what I pass (on the LMPD), no.”
Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT and aspiring nurse, was executed on March 13 at her Louisville apartment by officers running a warrant warrant attached to Glover’s investigation.
Slayer told investigators that about a month after the raid, on April 10, Louisville Detective Joshua Janes, who wrote the warrant for the raid, texted him again to ask about any packages sent to Glover’s name.
“That’s exactly what John Mattingley said, but in April a month after the shooting,” Slayer told investigators.
Slayer told investigators he replied, “I think we beat that guy first,” texted Janes back, “Interesting. It shows he was getting mail from the address.”
“It sounded weird,” Salire said of Jane’s writing. “I thought, this is a month after the shooting and you’re just going to ask me if there was a delivery in his name? He wrote a search warrant saying there was a delivery, but now you ask a month later.”
“I don’t know how to say without saying that it looks like you’re trying to cover your ass, that’s what I see,” Salier told investigators, referring to Janice’s April investigation.
But in his own interview with investigators conducted the very next day, Jens said he understood the information obtained from Mattingley’s sources, meaning that no suspicious packages were coming to that address, but it was normal mail.
Jens told investigators that Mattingley had relayed to him before the raid that no suspicious packages had arrived at the address, but had normal packages. He said Mattingley told him, “Your guy is just getting there – just get Amazon or mail packages there.”
In his interview with investigators conducted in March, just 12 days after Taylor was shot, Mattingley said he could not remember the name of the target on the search warrant.
“We didn’t write that,” he said of the search warrant. “We didn’t do any investigation. We didn’t do any background.”
Mattingley’s attorney, Kent Wicker, declined to comment Thursday. Neither Jens nor his lawyer immediately responded to a request for comment.
No officer involved in either department has been charged with malpractice.
Jens told investigators in May that the postal inspector’s information served only to confirm that he already knew – he said he saw Glover at Taylor’s address in January, received a package.
“I didn’t need that line to get me (probably the cause),” Janes said.
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