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Traffic stop leads to arrest for meth, fentanyl trafficking
FOREST HILLS, Ky. — A Pike County man spent his holiday in jail, after an arrest Tuesday for drug trafficking.
Just before midnight Tuesday, a state trooper spotted a pickup driving along Forest Hills Road with a tail light out and a poorly-secured ATV in the back, so he pulled it over. The vehicle pulled over in front of a house the officer knew to be used for drug sales.
When talking to the driver, Austin Cecil, of Sidney, 25, he noticed digital scales on the dashboard and a piece of aluminum foil with a burn mark between the seat and door. The trooper ordered Cecil out of the car and noticed signs of impairment, as well as a bag of meth in the seat where he had been sitting.
The officer also spotted an unnatural bulge in his visible underwear, near his pelvic bone. Cecil tried to explain the bulge as body hair, but it turned out to be a bag of fentanyl.
Cecil was arrested on enhanced trafficking of meth and fentanyl, possession of drug paraphernalia, DUI and other charges. He remains in the Pike County jail, awaiting arraignment on Monday.
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More Kentucky kids struggle with obesity, poor nutrition
In Kentucky, nearly 1-in-5 youths from ages 6-to-17 are obese, according to new county-level data on measures of child well-being in the Commonwealth.
The increase mirrors a nationwide trend. There has been a more than 270 percent increase in the number of obese children compared to the 1970s.
Terry Brooks, executive director of Kentucky Youth Advocates, said while more kids are hungry today, more kids are also obese, adding the solutions are not quick hits.
“It involves more access, more affordability when it comes to nutritious and fresh foods, especially for vulnerable families,” Brooks outlined. “It’s recalibrating after the hiccup with SNAP.”
Most Kentucky schools are able to provide free meals to all students through the Community Eligibility Provision and national research shows those participating schools saw a relative reduction in obesity compared to nonparticipating schools.
Aliete Yanes Medina, a Jefferson County senior high school student, said social media can trigger mental health problems in students who don’t have a certain body type.
“Sometimes if they don’t look the same as they see in social media, they may think that they are less worthy,” Medina observed. “It’s honestly something really, really sad.”
Karena Cash, data and research director for Kentucky Youth Advocates, explained food insecurity is closely linked to poor nutrition.
“Parents just having to rely on really cheap, ultraprocessed food that’s closely associated with obesity,” Cash stressed. “We also know that kids struggle to access food because they just don’t live close to grocery stores.”
Research shows kids living in high-poverty neighborhoods – a reality for nearly one in three children in Kentucky – are at higher risk of developing obesity throughout their childhood and adolescence.
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