On Friday, April 28, around 7pm, Kentucky State Police received a Text-A-Tip complaint that advised of drug activity in the Emerson community of Lewis County. Troopers and the Lewis County Sheriff’s Department responded to a home on Old Trace Creek Road. Upon investigation, it was determined Nicholas Butler, 30, was cultivating 35 marijuana plants, 42 trays of marijuana seedlings, and several containers of marijuana seeds that were being prepared for planting. Butler was arrested and charged with cultivation of Marijuana, along with illegal possession of legend drugs.