The ex-boyfriend of Breonna Taylor, who was the target of the police raid that killed her last year, has been offered probation for a long list of drug crimes that could have gotten him eight years in prison.
Jamarcus Glover, 31, will be sentenced for his remaining cocaine possession and trafficking charges in November, and prosecutors are letting him move to his former home state of Mississippi to serve his probation.
Police in Louisville, Kentucky secured a slew of no-knock warrants on the night of March 13, 2020 aimed at breaking up a drug-dealing operation involving Glover.
One of the five warrants, which was later found to contain false statements, sent police to the home of Taylor, an ER technician and Glover's ex-girlfriend.
Officers went to her home and broke down the door with a battering ram. Taylor's boyfriend at the time, Kenneth Walker, fired what he later called a warning shot.
Police then shot Taylor five times and she died in her hallway. Police found no drugs or cash at her home.
Glover was arrested in a related raid the same day Taylor was killed.
Police confiscated suspected marijuana, assorted pills, crack cocaine, cash and surveillance cameras from his property, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Glover was the target of the botched Louisville police raid that killed Breonna Taylor, 26
The 26-year-old ER technician, who had previously dated Glover, was targeted after a Louisville police detective alleged that Glover was sending packages to her house
He later told the Courier-Journal that he never brought drugs to Taylor's home.
'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,' he 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.'
The fatal shooting of the 26-year-old black woman sparked months of national protests.
It prompted the city of Louisville to pay Taylor's family $12 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit and led the Department of Justice to open an investigation into the Louisville Metro Police Department in April.
Police shot Taylor five times and she died in the hallway of her home on March 13, 2020
Glover, above in August 2020, will be sentenced for his remaining cocaine possession and trafficking charges in November
In a warrant for the botched raid, Detective Joshua Jaynes alleged that Glover was receiving drug packages at Taylor's home, but no drugs or cash were found there the night of the raid.
He wrote that he saw Glover leave Taylor’s apartment with a package in January 2020 and that he 'verified through a U.S. Postal Inspector' that Glover was getting drug packages at Taylor's apartment, according to the Washington Post.
Jaynes was fired after an internal investigation found the last allegation to be false.
He is appealing his firing in court.
Louisville prosecutors recently recommended probation for Glover, who was facing a litany of drug-related charges, WDRB-TV reported.
Glover was arrested the day Taylor was killed. He was arrested again last August on two bench warrants in connection with two 2019 criminal cases where he failed to pay a higher bond
He will also be allowed to move out of state, amid suggestions he will move to Mississippi, where he is from.
Sam Aguiar, an attorney who represented Taylor's family in the wrongful death lawsuit, said the plea deal 'validates' that Glover was not a drug kingpin requiring several late-night police raids.
'It’s a tragic reminder of how a ridiculous, militarized operation was the catalyst for a 26-year-old’s woman’s murder,' Aguiar said in a statement.
'They were treating these guys like they were each Pablo Escobar, when in reality they were low-level offenders.'
Last year, Glover was offered a plea deal by prosecutors that would have forced him to implicate Taylor in criminal activity. The offer listed Taylor as a co-defendant in illegal activities. Glover declined the offer.
A ground mural of Breonna Taylor at Chambers Park on July 6, 2020 in Annapolis, Maryland. Taylor's death, along with George Floyd's, sparked nationwide Black Lives Matter protests
Detectives Joshua Jaynes (left) and Myles Cosgrove (right) were fired in January. Jaynes wrote the arrest warrant that led to the botched raid, while Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Taylor
Prosecutors said after the document was revealed last year that it was a 'draft that was part of pre-indictment plea negotiations.'
There was no mention of Taylor in Glover's new pleading documents.
Glover was arrested again last August on two bench warrants in connection with two 2019 criminal cases where he failed to pay the higher bond set later by a judge, according to the Courier Journal.
At the start of this year, his attorney said he had been in solitary confinement for several months, but he has since been out of jail.
As part of the new plea deal, Glover agreed to forfeit money and cars seized by police.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys in the case declined to comment until Glover is sentenced next month.
None of the officers who fired their guns in the raid that killed Taylor are still in the force.
The department fired Officer Brett Hankison and Detective Myles Cosgrove, whom the FBI found fired the fatal shot, according to the Washington Post.
Hankinson has pled not guilty to wanton endangerment after one of his shots landed in a neighboring apartment.
Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, who was shot in the thigh, retired in June.
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