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Breonna Taylor, killed by LMPD officers on March 13, 2020, after Botched No-knock Search Warrant
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Warrants issued for arrest of Breonna Taylor’s ex-boyfriend amid leaked new documents
Warrants issued for arrest of Breonna Taylor’s ex-boyfriend amid leaked new documents
Jamarcus Glover skipped a recent court appearance. He's facing multiple charges.
Jamarcus Glover skipped a recent court appearance. He's facing multiple charges.(LMDC)
By Gray Media
Published: Aug. 26, 2020 at 4:10 PM EDT
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Two bench warrants have been issued for a central figure in the Breonna Taylor case, sources told WAVE 3 News on Wednesday.
The revelation comes two days after WAVE 3 News received 39 pages of leaked documents that paint a picture of a close relationship between Taylor and her ex-boyfriend, convicted drug dealer Jamarcus Glover.
“It’s unfortunate that the city did not provide LMPD’s post-death report and that we only learned of it until it was leaked to the media,” Sam Aguiar, an attorney representing Taylor’s family, told WAVE 3 News on Wednesday.
"Either way, it doesn't change whether she should've been killed or the unlawful actions surrounding her killing," Aguiar added.
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Glover, 30, skipped a recent court appearance; his lawyer said Wednesday that he doesn’t know where his client is. A warrant was issued for his arrest on July 27. Glover faces a number of drug-related charges in two separate cases.
The documents include a number of new details related to the evidence LMPD detectives presented in the warrant used to raid Taylor’s apartment on March 13. Taylor, 26, was shot dead during the raid, prompting a national outcry demanding police reform and three months of protests on Louisville’s city streets. During the incident, LMPD Sgt. Jon Mattingly was shot by Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker. Mattingly was one of three officers who fired back.
The documents include a number of new details related to the evidence LMPD detectives presented in the warrant used to raid Taylor’s apartment on March 13. Taylor, 26, was shot dead during the raid, prompting a national outcry demanding police reform and three months of protests on Louisville’s city streets. (Photo source: Family of Breonna Taylor)(WKYT)
WAVE 3 News has learned the author of the undated report is an investigator in an ongoing narcotics case against Glover, but is not part of the Taylor death investigation. The leaked documents were first reported Tuesday by the Courier-Journal.
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An excerpt from the leaked report showed that on Feb. 14, 2020, Glover's car was towed for a parking violation. According to the report, Glover tried to file a complaint against the officer and gave Taylor's phone number as his own. Six days later, detectives from the Place Based Investigation team verified through a database that Glover was using Taylor's home address -- 3003 Springfield Drive -- as well. The PBI squad was the group of detectives assigned to investigate Glover.
Then, on Feb. 24, the report further verified the link between Taylor's home and Glover.
"Detectives received Jamarcus Glover's bank records from Chase Bank," the leaked report stated. "On these bank statements, Jamarcus Glover used 3003 Springfield Drive #4, Louisville, KY 40214 as his mailing address."
Glover, who in addition to his 2015 drug trafficking conviction has several pending drug and weapons cases against him, was named on the March 13 warrant that sent officers to Taylor’s apartment. Taylor and a man named Adrian Walker also were named on that warrant.
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According to another document obtained by WAVE 3 News on Tuesday, mail addressed to Glover was among the items seized from Taylor's apartment following the shooting.
The 39-page summary report WAVE 3 News reviewed was part of a larger document, the full contents of which have not been released. Fraternal Order of Police President Ryan Nichols told WAVE 3 News that summary reports are normally a part of a criminal investigation.
"Good or bad, either way, everyone has the right to know all the facts in association in the case," Aguiar said, adding that he still does not understand why the information was not provided sooner or how such transparency would impede an investigation. Aguiar said he wished the public knew more.
The leaked report stated that on Jan. 2, the PBI team saw Glover pull up to 2424 Elliott Avenue, a suspected drug house, in Taylor's car. The team was conducting surveillance on the home which was described as a "trap house," meaning drug deals allegedly took place there. The report included pictures of Taylor's car at the scene.
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Then, the next day, the report revealed transcriptions of recorded jailhouse conversations between Glover and Taylor in which they talk about Adrian Walker, another suspect in the case and the third person named in the Taylor warrant.
"You talk to Doug (Adrian Walker?)" Glover asked Taylor.
"Yeah, I did," Taylor responded. "He said he was already back at the trap."
In another conversation between the two just two hours later, Glover thanked Taylor for checking on him.
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"When you're around I stress more ... ," she is quoted as saying. "I just always be worried about you ... not like you and b****, but just period with the police, like all kind of s***."
In separate phone calls on Jan. 3, the conversations ended with each telling the other that they loved each other, the documents stated. Also, from January 2016 to January 2020, Glover called Taylor 26 times from jail. Another inmate called her seven times during that period.
According to the new information, once LMPD's tech team installed a GPS tracker on Glover's red Dodge Charger, the device indicated six trips to the 3003 Springfield Drive address in January 2020. LMPD's surveillance efforts also produced pictures of Taylor at 2424 Elliott. The report included never-before-seen images of Glover picking up packages at 3003 Springfield.
The documents also alleged that back in 2016, the body of Fernandez Bowman was found in a car rented by Breonna Taylor. When LMPD detectives arrived at Taylor's home to question her, Glover was there. Taylor told the detectives she did not know Bowman, that she had been dating Glover for several months and that she had let him drive the rental car. She also gave detectives her phone number, which was a number that Glover was still using as recently as February of this year, according to the documents.
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That homicide victim was the brother of Damarius Bowman, one of Glover’s “associates” who has been arrested with Glover numerous times, the report stated.
The documents also included copious amounts of transcriptions of recorded jailhouse phone calls made by Glover, several of which were made to the mother of his child. On April 24, Glover told the woman, whom WAVE 3 News has chosen not to identify, that officers "took my car ... They got that bank statement out the arm rest, boom it got Bre's address on there."
In transcribed conversations from the morning of March 13, hours after Taylor was killed, Glover told the woman that Taylor had $8,000 of his money.
"Bre got down like $15 (grand), she had the $8 (grand) I gave her the other day and she picked up another $6 (grand)," he said, according to the documents.
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Then, a moment later, he told the woman that "Bre been handling all my money, she been handling my money ... She been handling s*** for me and cuz, it ain't just me."
And later, "I can walk in that house (Bre's) and go directly to whatever it is no problem with it," Glover said, according to the documents.
"While I'm frustrated that the information came out the way it did, I'm not frustrated that the public got access to the information in the case and wish they had more," Aguiar said. "There is a lot of other information that we hope will come out soon."
Sadiqa Reynolds, the CEO of the Louisville Urban League, said at a news conference Wednesday that she wants to know who knew of the information in the report, when they learned it and why it was leaked.
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"I think that LMPD is playing catchup," Reynolds said. "I think that whoever leaked that report wants to say, 'See, this is why, now you understand why we did this.' What we want to say back is it doesn't justify her death."
Nichols said he agrees that Taylor should not have died. He explained the report shows why the investigation led police to Taylor's apartment in the first place.
The three LMPD officers involved in the shooting were placed on administrative reassignment, per department protocol. One of them, Brett Hankison, was fired after it was determined that he fired 10 shots “blindly” into Taylor’s apartment from outside. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has not announced a timetable for when his office will decide whether to criminally charge the officers.
Copyright 2020 WAVE 3 News. All rights reserved.
Warrants issued for arrest of Breonna Taylor’s ex-boyfriend amid leaked new documents
Warrants issued for arrest of Breonna Taylor’s ex-boyfriend amid leaked new documents
Jamarcus Glover skipped a recent court appearance. He's facing multiple charges.
Jamarcus Glover skipped a recent court appearance. He's facing multiple charges.(LMDC)
By Gray Media
Published: Aug. 26, 2020 at 4:10 PM EDT
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Two bench warrants have been issued for a central figure in the Breonna Taylor case, sources told WAVE 3 News on Wednesday.
The revelation comes two days after WAVE 3 News received 39 pages of leaked documents that paint a picture of a close relationship between Taylor and her ex-boyfriend, convicted drug dealer Jamarcus Glover.
“It’s unfortunate that the city did not provide LMPD’s post-death report and that we only learned of it until it was leaked to the media,” Sam Aguiar, an attorney representing Taylor’s family, told WAVE 3 News on Wednesday.
"Either way, it doesn't change whether she should've been killed or the unlawful actions surrounding her killing," Aguiar added.
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Glover, 30, skipped a recent court appearance; his lawyer said Wednesday that he doesn’t know where his client is. A warrant was issued for his arrest on July 27. Glover faces a number of drug-related charges in two separate cases.
The documents include a number of new details related to the evidence LMPD detectives presented in the warrant used to raid Taylor’s apartment on March 13. Taylor, 26, was shot dead during the raid, prompting a national outcry demanding police reform and three months of protests on Louisville’s city streets. During the incident, LMPD Sgt. Jon Mattingly was shot by Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker. Mattingly was one of three officers who fired back.
The documents include a number of new details related to the evidence LMPD detectives presented in the warrant used to raid Taylor’s apartment on March 13. Taylor, 26, was shot dead during the raid, prompting a national outcry demanding police reform and three months of protests on Louisville’s city streets. (Photo source: Family of Breonna Taylor)(WKYT)
WAVE 3 News has learned the author of the undated report is an investigator in an ongoing narcotics case against Glover, but is not part of the Taylor death investigation. The leaked documents were first reported Tuesday by the Courier-Journal.
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An excerpt from the leaked report showed that on Feb. 14, 2020, Glover's car was towed for a parking violation. According to the report, Glover tried to file a complaint against the officer and gave Taylor's phone number as his own. Six days later, detectives from the Place Based Investigation team verified through a database that Glover was using Taylor's home address -- 3003 Springfield Drive -- as well. The PBI squad was the group of detectives assigned to investigate Glover.
Then, on Feb. 24, the report further verified the link between Taylor's home and Glover.
"Detectives received Jamarcus Glover's bank records from Chase Bank," the leaked report stated. "On these bank statements, Jamarcus Glover used 3003 Springfield Drive #4, Louisville, KY 40214 as his mailing address."
Glover, who in addition to his 2015 drug trafficking conviction has several pending drug and weapons cases against him, was named on the March 13 warrant that sent officers to Taylor’s apartment. Taylor and a man named Adrian Walker also were named on that warrant.
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According to another document obtained by WAVE 3 News on Tuesday, mail addressed to Glover was among the items seized from Taylor's apartment following the shooting.
The 39-page summary report WAVE 3 News reviewed was part of a larger document, the full contents of which have not been released. Fraternal Order of Police President Ryan Nichols told WAVE 3 News that summary reports are normally a part of a criminal investigation.
"Good or bad, either way, everyone has the right to know all the facts in association in the case," Aguiar said, adding that he still does not understand why the information was not provided sooner or how such transparency would impede an investigation. Aguiar said he wished the public knew more.
The leaked report stated that on Jan. 2, the PBI team saw Glover pull up to 2424 Elliott Avenue, a suspected drug house, in Taylor's car. The team was conducting surveillance on the home which was described as a "trap house," meaning drug deals allegedly took place there. The report included pictures of Taylor's car at the scene.
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Then, the next day, the report revealed transcriptions of recorded jailhouse conversations between Glover and Taylor in which they talk about Adrian Walker, another suspect in the case and the third person named in the Taylor warrant.
"You talk to Doug (Adrian Walker?)" Glover asked Taylor.
"Yeah, I did," Taylor responded. "He said he was already back at the trap."
In another conversation between the two just two hours later, Glover thanked Taylor for checking on him.
ADVERTISEMENT
"When you're around I stress more ... ," she is quoted as saying. "I just always be worried about you ... not like you and b****, but just period with the police, like all kind of s***."
In separate phone calls on Jan. 3, the conversations ended with each telling the other that they loved each other, the documents stated. Also, from January 2016 to January 2020, Glover called Taylor 26 times from jail. Another inmate called her seven times during that period.
According to the new information, once LMPD's tech team installed a GPS tracker on Glover's red Dodge Charger, the device indicated six trips to the 3003 Springfield Drive address in January 2020. LMPD's surveillance efforts also produced pictures of Taylor at 2424 Elliott. The report included never-before-seen images of Glover picking up packages at 3003 Springfield.
The documents also alleged that back in 2016, the body of Fernandez Bowman was found in a car rented by Breonna Taylor. When LMPD detectives arrived at Taylor's home to question her, Glover was there. Taylor told the detectives she did not know Bowman, that she had been dating Glover for several months and that she had let him drive the rental car. She also gave detectives her phone number, which was a number that Glover was still using as recently as February of this year, according to the documents.
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That homicide victim was the brother of Damarius Bowman, one of Glover’s “associates” who has been arrested with Glover numerous times, the report stated.
The documents also included copious amounts of transcriptions of recorded jailhouse phone calls made by Glover, several of which were made to the mother of his child. On April 24, Glover told the woman, whom WAVE 3 News has chosen not to identify, that officers "took my car ... They got that bank statement out the arm rest, boom it got Bre's address on there."
In transcribed conversations from the morning of March 13, hours after Taylor was killed, Glover told the woman that Taylor had $8,000 of his money.
"Bre got down like $15 (grand), she had the $8 (grand) I gave her the other day and she picked up another $6 (grand)," he said, according to the documents.
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Then, a moment later, he told the woman that "Bre been handling all my money, she been handling my money ... She been handling s*** for me and cuz, it ain't just me."
And later, "I can walk in that house (Bre's) and go directly to whatever it is no problem with it," Glover said, according to the documents.
"While I'm frustrated that the information came out the way it did, I'm not frustrated that the public got access to the information in the case and wish they had more," Aguiar said. "There is a lot of other information that we hope will come out soon."
Sadiqa Reynolds, the CEO of the Louisville Urban League, said at a news conference Wednesday that she wants to know who knew of the information in the report, when they learned it and why it was leaked.
ADVERTISEMENT
"I think that LMPD is playing catchup," Reynolds said. "I think that whoever leaked that report wants to say, 'See, this is why, now you understand why we did this.' What we want to say back is it doesn't justify her death."
Nichols said he agrees that Taylor should not have died. He explained the report shows why the investigation led police to Taylor's apartment in the first place.
The three LMPD officers involved in the shooting were placed on administrative reassignment, per department protocol. One of them, Brett Hankison, was fired after it was determined that he fired 10 shots “blindly” into Taylor’s apartment from outside. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron has not announced a timetable for when his office will decide whether to criminally charge the officers.
Copyright 2020 WAVE 3 News. All rights reserved.
Exclusive: Breonna Taylor had nothing to do with illegal drug trade, ex-boyfriend says
Phillip M. BaileyDarcy CostelloTessa Duvall
Louisville Courier Journal
Breonna Taylor had no ties to drugs, ex-boyfriend says
was arrested shortly before noon Thursday, about 15 hours after he talked with The Courier Journal, on an outstanding warrant.
His remarks came the day after The Courier Journal published a story on an internal police report written after Taylor's deaththat detailed the ties between her and Glover, including recorded phone calls Glover made from jail and police surveillance of Glover's car at Taylor's home.
The Courier Journal independently verified and reviewed the recorded jail phone calls, including a call on the day Taylor was fatally shot by police. In that call, Glover said Taylor was holding $8,000 for him and that she had been “handling all my money.”
Report details why police decided to forcibly search Taylor's home
Mysterious packages at Taylor's apartment
In the March 12 affidavit requesting search warrants for Taylor's apartment and the house where Glover was allegedly selling drugs, LMPD Detective Joshua Jaynes wrote that Glover was seen leaving Taylor's apartment in January with a "suspected USPS package in his right hand" and then drove to a "known drug house" on Muhammad Ali Boulevard.
placed Jaynes on administrative reassignment in June until questions about the warrants can be answered.
Glover said Wednesday there was nothing suspicious about that package or any other that he had sent to Taylor's home. He said he worried about deliveries to his house being stolen, and Taylor had agreed those items could be sent to her apartment instead.
"Nothing ever been illegal there," he said. "Getting shoes and clothes coming through the mail is not illegal. Nothing illegal at all."
Taylor is mentioned only one other time in the search warrant affidavit, when police say a vehicle belonging to her was seen outside Glover's alleged drug house in the Russell neighborhood.
The warrant application also says Glover listed her address as his, and that police confirmed that with "multiple computer databases."
Fact check:Debunking 8 widely shared rumors in the Breonna Taylor shooting
Early morning forced entry leads to Taylor's death
Glover was arrested the same night as Taylor’s death, which has become a national rallying cry against police brutality.
Lawyers for Taylor’s family have argued that police knew where Glover was and therefore had no need to bust down Taylor’s door just after 12:40 a.m. Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired a shot when the officers burst in, saying later he thought they were intruders.
Three officers returned fire, striking Taylor five times and killing her in her hallway. The 26-year-old Black emergency room technician wasn't armed.
Protesters have been in the streets for nearly 100 straight days, calling for Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to prosecute Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, Detective Myles Cosgrove and former Detective Brett Hankison for their roles in the shooting.
Hankison was terminated for firing indiscriminately into the apartment and adjoining units. Mattingly and Cosgrove are on administrative reassignment.
Lawyers representing Taylor's family have alleged in court records that her shooting is tied to a Louisville police department operation to clear out a block in western Louisville that was part of a major redevelopment effort.
They point to a new police squad — the Place-Based Investigations unit — as the engine behind the case, claiming Taylor was caught up in an investigation that was less about a drug house and more about speeding up the city's multimillion-dollar "Vision Russell" development plan.
have dismissed that claim, arguing that the newly formed unit is a tool to fight violent crime at troublesome locations.
But records show that the unit’s officers repeatedly pursued Glover and his associates with search warrants and traffic stops.
Related:'Rogue' unit or targeted initiative? Why LMPD's new squad is causing a stir
Glover says police cared about location
Glover, a Mississippi native, said he once sold drugs to make ends meet, but on Wednesday, he denied being a current narcotics trafficker.
"I have been, but that's my past," he said. "I'm not a part of it no more."
Court records indicate he has been arrested on drug charges three times since December 2019.
Glover, a convicted felon, has been accumulating drug-related arrests since 2008, when he was sentenced to prison for selling cocaine in Montgomery County, Mississippi.
Kentucky court records show arrests dating to 2014 in multiple counties. He pleaded guilty to first-degree possession of a controlled substance in Warren County in 2015 and was sentenced to a year in jail, for instance.
He pleaded guilty to cocaine possession in Jefferson County and served 10 days in jail after a 2016 arrest, according to court records. He is facing multiple trafficking charges in Jefferson County and a drunken driving charge in Hardin County.
"I'm taking everything to trial, and I'm going to put everything on the line because (police) foul," Glover said. "They got every excuse of why they done what they done, but none justifies murder. You can't justify it when (Breonna's) innocent."
Glover said he was aware police were watching him once he returned to Kentucky in September 2019, and that detectives repeatedly pressured him about leaving the Elliott Avenue home months before the March 13 raid.
When a homicide took place on the street last year, for instance, Glover said he provided detectives with information showing he wasn't in the area at the time. He said an officer told him any narcotics investigators would "get up off" his back if he left the neighborhood.
"They literally told me I needed to move," Glover said. "They never said why they wanted me to move, but they told me I needed to move my activity elsewhere."
Breonna Taylor raid was not attempt to take control of property
Glover says Taylor was 'somebody I cared about'
The undated 39-page police report prepared after Taylor's death outlines calls Glover made while in custody.
In several recorded calls from Metro Corrections, Glover is heard either talking to or mentioning Taylor by name. During a March 13 call, for instance, he tells a girlfriend that Taylor was holding $8,000 for him and had been "handling all my money."
McConnell says he hasn't discussed the Taylor case with AG Cameron
Glover told a similar story to someone in a jail call recorded March 13, after Taylor's death, explaining that he “was listening to the police — they had the radio.”
In the call, he described that officers kicked in the door and were fired on. He didn't name Walker, Taylor's boyfriend, but said that “Bre was in the hallway and (expletive) he ain’t even in front of her. (Expletive) she took all the bullets."
It’s not clear from the transcript whether Glover heard that on the police radio. Walker and Glover were in Metro Corrections at the same time.
In a recorded jail call March 13, Glover told a woman on the phone that he and Taylor “ain’t been around each other in over two months — damn near two months.”
“I can literally show messages, though. Like, I ain’t have nothing going on with Bre no more,” he said.
In a different phone call on the same day, Glover said he was upset because “at the end of the day, I know she didn’t — she didn’t do nothing to deserve none of this (expletive) though.”
In another call, Glover said, “They didn’t have no business looking for me at no Bre house.”
The undated Louisville police report leaked to The Courier Journal references a Jan. 3 jailhouse call in which Glover mentioned wanting to rest in Taylor's bed.
Glover said in the interview Wednesday how he and Taylor dated for about 2½ years before breaking up in 2018. He said they kept in contact mostly through text messages and social media.
Since the shooting, Glover has regularly mentioned Taylor in Facebook posts on her birthday or other anniversaries. He described her as his best friend in a June 29 post, and in a Wednesday message he posted a picture of the two.
"I ain't folding on (this) s---," Glover said on the message. "I never brought no drug around you or have you involved in nothing illegal."
Glover said Taylor did not respond to his flirtatious suggestion in the jailhouse call but mentioned how she was stressed whenever Glover was around. She said she was "always worried about" him.
"At the end of the day this is somebody I cared about," Glover said in Wednesday's interview. "This ain't somebody you can just brush it off that she's gone."
Reach Phillip M. Bailey at pbailey@USAToday.com or 502-582-4475. Follow him on Twitter at @phillipmbailey.
Phillip M. BaileyDarcy CostelloTessa Duvall
Louisville Courier Journal
Breonna Taylor had no ties to drugs, ex-boyfriend says
was arrested shortly before noon Thursday, about 15 hours after he talked with The Courier Journal, on an outstanding warrant.
His remarks came the day after The Courier Journal published a story on an internal police report written after Taylor's deaththat detailed the ties between her and Glover, including recorded phone calls Glover made from jail and police surveillance of Glover's car at Taylor's home.
The Courier Journal independently verified and reviewed the recorded jail phone calls, including a call on the day Taylor was fatally shot by police. In that call, Glover said Taylor was holding $8,000 for him and that she had been “handling all my money.”
Report details why police decided to forcibly search Taylor's home
Mysterious packages at Taylor's apartment
In the March 12 affidavit requesting search warrants for Taylor's apartment and the house where Glover was allegedly selling drugs, LMPD Detective Joshua Jaynes wrote that Glover was seen leaving Taylor's apartment in January with a "suspected USPS package in his right hand" and then drove to a "known drug house" on Muhammad Ali Boulevard.
placed Jaynes on administrative reassignment in June until questions about the warrants can be answered.
Glover said Wednesday there was nothing suspicious about that package or any other that he had sent to Taylor's home. He said he worried about deliveries to his house being stolen, and Taylor had agreed those items could be sent to her apartment instead.
"Nothing ever been illegal there," he said. "Getting shoes and clothes coming through the mail is not illegal. Nothing illegal at all."
Taylor is mentioned only one other time in the search warrant affidavit, when police say a vehicle belonging to her was seen outside Glover's alleged drug house in the Russell neighborhood.
The warrant application also says Glover listed her address as his, and that police confirmed that with "multiple computer databases."
Fact check:Debunking 8 widely shared rumors in the Breonna Taylor shooting
Early morning forced entry leads to Taylor's death
Glover was arrested the same night as Taylor’s death, which has become a national rallying cry against police brutality.
Lawyers for Taylor’s family have argued that police knew where Glover was and therefore had no need to bust down Taylor’s door just after 12:40 a.m. Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, fired a shot when the officers burst in, saying later he thought they were intruders.
Three officers returned fire, striking Taylor five times and killing her in her hallway. The 26-year-old Black emergency room technician wasn't armed.
Protesters have been in the streets for nearly 100 straight days, calling for Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron to prosecute Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, Detective Myles Cosgrove and former Detective Brett Hankison for their roles in the shooting.
Hankison was terminated for firing indiscriminately into the apartment and adjoining units. Mattingly and Cosgrove are on administrative reassignment.
Lawyers representing Taylor's family have alleged in court records that her shooting is tied to a Louisville police department operation to clear out a block in western Louisville that was part of a major redevelopment effort.
They point to a new police squad — the Place-Based Investigations unit — as the engine behind the case, claiming Taylor was caught up in an investigation that was less about a drug house and more about speeding up the city's multimillion-dollar "Vision Russell" development plan.
have dismissed that claim, arguing that the newly formed unit is a tool to fight violent crime at troublesome locations.
But records show that the unit’s officers repeatedly pursued Glover and his associates with search warrants and traffic stops.
Related:'Rogue' unit or targeted initiative? Why LMPD's new squad is causing a stir
Glover says police cared about location
Glover, a Mississippi native, said he once sold drugs to make ends meet, but on Wednesday, he denied being a current narcotics trafficker.
"I have been, but that's my past," he said. "I'm not a part of it no more."
Court records indicate he has been arrested on drug charges three times since December 2019.
Glover, a convicted felon, has been accumulating drug-related arrests since 2008, when he was sentenced to prison for selling cocaine in Montgomery County, Mississippi.
Kentucky court records show arrests dating to 2014 in multiple counties. He pleaded guilty to first-degree possession of a controlled substance in Warren County in 2015 and was sentenced to a year in jail, for instance.
He pleaded guilty to cocaine possession in Jefferson County and served 10 days in jail after a 2016 arrest, according to court records. He is facing multiple trafficking charges in Jefferson County and a drunken driving charge in Hardin County.
"I'm taking everything to trial, and I'm going to put everything on the line because (police) foul," Glover said. "They got every excuse of why they done what they done, but none justifies murder. You can't justify it when (Breonna's) innocent."
Glover said he was aware police were watching him once he returned to Kentucky in September 2019, and that detectives repeatedly pressured him about leaving the Elliott Avenue home months before the March 13 raid.
When a homicide took place on the street last year, for instance, Glover said he provided detectives with information showing he wasn't in the area at the time. He said an officer told him any narcotics investigators would "get up off" his back if he left the neighborhood.
"They literally told me I needed to move," Glover said. "They never said why they wanted me to move, but they told me I needed to move my activity elsewhere."
Breonna Taylor raid was not attempt to take control of property
Glover says Taylor was 'somebody I cared about'
The undated 39-page police report prepared after Taylor's death outlines calls Glover made while in custody.
In several recorded calls from Metro Corrections, Glover is heard either talking to or mentioning Taylor by name. During a March 13 call, for instance, he tells a girlfriend that Taylor was holding $8,000 for him and had been "handling all my money."
McConnell says he hasn't discussed the Taylor case with AG Cameron
Glover told a similar story to someone in a jail call recorded March 13, after Taylor's death, explaining that he “was listening to the police — they had the radio.”
In the call, he described that officers kicked in the door and were fired on. He didn't name Walker, Taylor's boyfriend, but said that “Bre was in the hallway and (expletive) he ain’t even in front of her. (Expletive) she took all the bullets."
It’s not clear from the transcript whether Glover heard that on the police radio. Walker and Glover were in Metro Corrections at the same time.
In a recorded jail call March 13, Glover told a woman on the phone that he and Taylor “ain’t been around each other in over two months — damn near two months.”
“I can literally show messages, though. Like, I ain’t have nothing going on with Bre no more,” he said.
In a different phone call on the same day, Glover said he was upset because “at the end of the day, I know she didn’t — she didn’t do nothing to deserve none of this (expletive) though.”
In another call, Glover said, “They didn’t have no business looking for me at no Bre house.”
The undated Louisville police report leaked to The Courier Journal references a Jan. 3 jailhouse call in which Glover mentioned wanting to rest in Taylor's bed.
Glover said in the interview Wednesday how he and Taylor dated for about 2½ years before breaking up in 2018. He said they kept in contact mostly through text messages and social media.
Since the shooting, Glover has regularly mentioned Taylor in Facebook posts on her birthday or other anniversaries. He described her as his best friend in a June 29 post, and in a Wednesday message he posted a picture of the two.
"I ain't folding on (this) s---," Glover said on the message. "I never brought no drug around you or have you involved in nothing illegal."
Glover said Taylor did not respond to his flirtatious suggestion in the jailhouse call but mentioned how she was stressed whenever Glover was around. She said she was "always worried about" him.
"At the end of the day this is somebody I cared about," Glover said in Wednesday's interview. "This ain't somebody you can just brush it off that she's gone."
Reach Phillip M. Bailey at pbailey@USAToday.com or 502-582-4475. Follow him on Twitter at @phillipmbailey.
Breonna Taylor’s ex-boyfriend offered plea deal if he would claim Taylor was part of ‘organized crime syndicate’
Stephanie Guerilus
August 31, 2020, 4:35 PM EDT
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Jamarcus Glover turned down the plea deal that would have implicated Breonna Taylor in his alleged crimes
Breonna Taylor’s ex-boyfriend was offered a plea deal if he would claim that she was part of an “organized crime syndicate.”
Jamarcus Glover, Taylor’s ex-boyfriend and the focus of the no-knock raid which took her life, pled not guilty to drug charges Friday. Court records indicated that prosecutors were willing to give him a plea deal if he were to implicate Taylor in his alleged crimes, WDRB reported Monday.
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(Credit: Louisville Metro Department of Corrections)
Glover was given the offer by the Jefferson Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office on July 13 to avoid a 10-year prison sentence and be sentenced to possible probation.
In return for leniency, he was required to admit he and “co-codefendants,” were involved in a drug trafficking operation in Louisville, Kentucky through April 22.
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According to court records, the crime syndicate sold drugs from an abandoned warehouse and vacant houses in Louisville. Taylor, 26, lived just 10 miles away.
Glover, 30, turned down the plea deal. An attorney representing Taylor’s family in a wrongful death lawsuit blasted officials for “the lengths to which those within the police department and Commonwealth’s Attorney went to after Breonna Taylor’s killing to try and paint a picture of her which was vastly different than the woman she truly was,” Sam Aguiar said.
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“The fact that they would try to even represent that she was a co-defendant in a criminal case more than a month after she died is absolutely disgusting.”
Glover told the Louisville Courier-Journal last week that police were attempting to shift the narrative around her death. She died on March 13 after a botched raid in her home in which officers shot her eight times.
Glover believes that law enforcement is now blaming him for their actions. Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, Detective Myles Cosgrove, and former Detective Brett Hankison were the officers involved in the shooting. Hankison has since been fired from the Louisville police department, theGrio reported in June.
“The police are trying to make it out to be my fault and turning the whole community out here making it look like I brought this to Breonna’s door,” Glover said.
“There was nothing never there or anything ever there, and at the end of the day, they went about it the wrong way and lied on that search warrant and shot that girl out there.”
As previously reported by theGrio, Glover denied any wrongdoing when he used her address to receive packages.
“Nothing ever been illegal there,” he told the Courier-Journal. “Getting shoes and clothes coming through the mail is not illegal. Nothing illegal at all.”
Glover said to his child’s mother on recorded jailhouse calls that while Taylor had been ‘holding money for him’ the money was for phone bills and that he believed that she became implicated in his alleged crimes because she’d bailed him out of jail.
“I don’t understand how they going to serve a warrant for Bre house, bruh,” Glover says to a man on another call from jail. “How is it they serve warrant for Bre house and nothing tied me to Bre house at all besides these bonds?”
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August 31, 2020, 4:35 PM EDT
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Jamarcus Glover turned down the plea deal that would have implicated Breonna Taylor in his alleged crimes
Breonna Taylor’s ex-boyfriend was offered a plea deal if he would claim that she was part of an “organized crime syndicate.”
Jamarcus Glover, Taylor’s ex-boyfriend and the focus of the no-knock raid which took her life, pled not guilty to drug charges Friday. Court records indicated that prosecutors were willing to give him a plea deal if he were to implicate Taylor in his alleged crimes, WDRB reported Monday.
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(Credit: Louisville Metro Department of Corrections)
Glover was given the offer by the Jefferson Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office on July 13 to avoid a 10-year prison sentence and be sentenced to possible probation.
In return for leniency, he was required to admit he and “co-codefendants,” were involved in a drug trafficking operation in Louisville, Kentucky through April 22.
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According to court records, the crime syndicate sold drugs from an abandoned warehouse and vacant houses in Louisville. Taylor, 26, lived just 10 miles away.
Glover, 30, turned down the plea deal. An attorney representing Taylor’s family in a wrongful death lawsuit blasted officials for “the lengths to which those within the police department and Commonwealth’s Attorney went to after Breonna Taylor’s killing to try and paint a picture of her which was vastly different than the woman she truly was,” Sam Aguiar said.
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“The fact that they would try to even represent that she was a co-defendant in a criminal case more than a month after she died is absolutely disgusting.”
Glover told the Louisville Courier-Journal last week that police were attempting to shift the narrative around her death. She died on March 13 after a botched raid in her home in which officers shot her eight times.
Glover believes that law enforcement is now blaming him for their actions. Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, Detective Myles Cosgrove, and former Detective Brett Hankison were the officers involved in the shooting. Hankison has since been fired from the Louisville police department, theGrio reported in June.
“The police are trying to make it out to be my fault and turning the whole community out here making it look like I brought this to Breonna’s door,” Glover said.
“There was nothing never there or anything ever there, and at the end of the day, they went about it the wrong way and lied on that search warrant and shot that girl out there.”
As previously reported by theGrio, Glover denied any wrongdoing when he used her address to receive packages.
“Nothing ever been illegal there,” he told the Courier-Journal. “Getting shoes and clothes coming through the mail is not illegal. Nothing illegal at all.”
Glover said to his child’s mother on recorded jailhouse calls that while Taylor had been ‘holding money for him’ the money was for phone bills and that he believed that she became implicated in his alleged crimes because she’d bailed him out of jail.
“I don’t understand how they going to serve a warrant for Bre house, bruh,” Glover says to a man on another call from jail. “How is it they serve warrant for Bre house and nothing tied me to Bre house at all besides these bonds?”
More news. They knew he was a registered gun owner
Body cameras worn????? Did they turn on????
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
Why wouldn't they just approach her before or after work, and then just serve the search warrant?
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Demon Time coming 2024
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
Why wouldn't they just approach her before or after work, and then just serve the search warrant? They be wantin to do movie shyt.
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
How so? Seem like they had reasoning for the searchthis was BIGGER than just the search warrant man...
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
Clay from SOA
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Veteran
I just heard about the settlement with the family..
