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Kentucky woman arrested after drugs concealed in Lego pieces at airport
WKRC ^
| 2/14/2026
| Staff
Posted on 02/15/2026 10:20:43 AM PST by simpson96
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WKRC) - A Kentucky woman was arrested after federal agents intercepted a package from Poland containing what investigators said were OxyContin pills hidden inside Lego pieces.
Agents with the Department of Homeland Security contacted local police Feb. 5 after seizing a package at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, per WLKY. Court records state the package, addressed to Amber Back, 41, contained 100 OxyContin pills concealed inside Lego pieces, reports WAVE. That package was destined for her home in Mount Sterling.
Police said an officer delivered the package to Back’s address Feb. 6 before detaining her and taking her to the police station for questioning.
During an interview, Back told investigators another woman had arranged for the drugs to be sent to her address and said she was not involved. However, after Back provided the passcode to her phone, Fox 56 reports, investigators said they found messages discussing the sale of pills, including references to selling blue pills.
Police also said messages indicated multiple packages had been delivered to Back’s address over the past year.
Back is charged with first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance. She was released from the Montgomery County Detention Center on a $5,000 bond and is scheduled to be arraigned Feb. 26.
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Travel
KEYWORDS: crime; drugs; kentuckywoman; smuggling; travel
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posted on
02/15/2026 10:20:43 AM PST
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simpson96
To: simpson96
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posted on
02/15/2026 10:22:21 AM PST
by
House Atreides
(I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
To: House Atreides
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posted on
02/15/2026 10:25:46 AM PST
by
simpson96
To: simpson96
she shines with her own kind of light
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posted on
02/15/2026 10:32:54 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: simpson96
Should have went with the Lincoln Logs or Erector Set.
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posted on
02/15/2026 10:33:17 AM PST
by
kawhill
(Dywedwch Wrthym + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
To: simpson96
Did they give the Lego pieces back to Back?
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posted on
02/15/2026 10:36:24 AM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
To: simpson96
Her one mistake was that the legos were assembled like a huge crack pipe
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posted on
02/15/2026 10:40:42 AM PST
by
Arkady
To: BenLurkin
Surprised it took four posts.
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posted on
02/15/2026 10:41:10 AM PST
by
dfwgator
("I am Charlie Kirk!")
To: simpson96
Kentucky woman
She gets to know you ....
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posted on
02/15/2026 10:50:52 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/15/2026 11:05:04 AM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(**** ICE (Illegal Criminal Emigrants).)
To: simpson96
Kentucky woman
She shines with her own kind of light
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posted on
02/15/2026 11:24:05 AM PST
by
PghBaldy
(12/14/12- 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: simpson96
I always keep drugs with my lego pieces... Doesn’t everybody?
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posted on
02/15/2026 11:25:31 AM PST
by
Bullish
(My tagline ran off with another man, but it's okay... I wasn't married to it.)
To: simpson96
They have them some very sensitive detection devices. Good work!
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posted on
02/15/2026 11:28:11 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(Yesterday only comes one time. —Sorrells Pickard)
To: kawhill
"or Erector Set"
That's probably for the "blue pills".
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posted on
02/15/2026 11:28:39 AM PST
by
Bikkuri
('China and India were ever going to be serious allies hasn’t been paying attention)
To: simpson96
Just when you think your smarter then the police things go bad all because you didn’t have your lucky socks on.
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posted on
02/15/2026 11:58:02 AM PST
by
Vaduz
(NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
To: Bikkuri
Hah. The poor guy needs all the help he can get.
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posted on
02/15/2026 6:11:15 PM PST
by
frank ballenger
(There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
To: simpson96; SunkenCiv; Rennes Templar; The Spirit Of Allegiance
She would have looked better if she’d worn the snap-on hair from the Lego people.
They were really living the high life until she got caught.
What about them? No one cares about the little people.
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posted on
02/15/2026 6:21:26 PM PST
by
Ezekiel
(🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
To: simpson96
The Lego box said “You can build something high. As high as your imagination can reach.”
With the drugs that can be even higher. 💊👀☁️🌀
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posted on
02/15/2026 6:22:24 PM PST
by
frank ballenger
(There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
To: Ezekiel
She would have looked better if she’d worn the snap-on hair from the Lego people. Rush used to pretend the sponsor for his reports about lesbian news was Snap-On Tools.
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posted on
02/15/2026 6:24:50 PM PST
by
frank ballenger
(There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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