Faught v. Commonwealth

VANCE, Justice.

David Edward Faught was convicted by a jury in Jefferson Circuit Court of trafficking in a controlled substance (K.R.S. 218A.140(1)). His punishment was fixed at 20 years’ imprisonment and a $20,000 fine as a result of his being a subsequent offender under K.R.S. 218A.990(1).

On February 17,1981, at 8:15 p.m., Detective Bledsoe of the Louisville Police Department Narcotics Unit received a telephone call from an informant telling him that appellant would be arriving shortly at the State Fairgrounds in a pickup truck with a large quantity of cocaine. Soon after Bled-soe and his…