GEORGETOWN, Ky. (FOX 56) — A Georgetown woman was sentenced Tuesday by a U.S. District judge for a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy in 2022.
According to court documents, between September and October 2022, Mabel Francis Soto, 70, and her co-conspirator, Taylor Lee Burden, planned to sell drugs out of Soto’s home on Payne Street in Georgetown.
On Oct. 19, Georgetown police were surveilling the Payne Street area when they noticed several vehicles arriving at Soto’s home, according to an indictment. They watched Burden engage in what they believed to be drug transactions with the vehicles.
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Court records show that officers stopped and searched the vehicles after they left the home. Officers found drugs inside, and the occupants admitted that they bought the drugs from Soto and Burden…