The Leitchfield Police Department and Grayson County Sheriff’s Office teamed up to make a significant drug trafficking arrest.
Monday night at approximately 9:15, local law enforcement was alerted by Grayson County Dispatch to a reckless driver on the Western Kentucky Parkway. The citizen who called in the complaint followed the vehicle, a 2014 Toyota Scion, to the Marathon/Taco Bell at 802 South Main Street.
In less than a minute, LPD Officer Chuck Hoover observed the vehicle parked at the gas pumps. Upon making contact with the driver, 43-year-old Cheryl R. McMillen, of Cave City, Hoover determined she was “slurring her speech and seemed very lethargic,” according to the arrest citation. The suspect told Hoover that she took a prescription Xanax “earlier in the day.”
She was given a field sobriety test and arrested for DUI.
At that time, Deputy Sean Fentress and K-9 Zeus arrived at the scene. As Fentress worked Zeus around the vehicle, the K-9 alerted on the vehicle.
During a search of the Toyota, police located “a large quantity of meth in multiple baggies in a zippered pouch” in McMillen’s purse on the driver’s side floorboard, the citation states. Police, now including LPD Sgt. DJ Newton and Officers Justin Cockerel and Tamara Jupin, continued to search the vehicle and found “five used meth pipes.”
In addition to the DUI count, McMillen was charged with trafficking in a controlled substance (methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia. She was lodged in the Grayson County Detention Center.
McMillen, according to the Kentucky Department of Corrections, is a felon after being convicted in Edmonson County for possession of methamphetamine in June 2021. She was originally charged with methamphetamine trafficking in that case.
She is on parole until August 2026.
(Headline photo l-r: Cheryl McMillen, Deputy Sean Fentress, LPD Officer Chuck Hoover and LPD Sgt. DJ Newton investigating the incident)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
