Booker Ingulls
Kentucky Post, 23 February 1931, page 1
Booker Ingulls, Saratoga st. Newport is held on a charge of
receiving stolen goods. Ingulls was later arrested after he is alleged to have
purchased one of the stolen guns.
With the arrest of the other Negroes police believe they will clear up the theft of 15 rifles from the Hegener hardware store, Covington and a series of grocery robberies. Only one of the guns purchased by Ingulls has been recovered.
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Kentucky Post, Sunday, 26 April 1931, page 1
Among those facing the federal narcotic charge was Booker Ingulls, Negro, who according to Ford, is the distributor in Newport and Campbell co. for a ring of minor dope peddlers. Ingulls was arrested with George Reynolds, Negro, in a place at the southeast corner of Southgate st. and Central av. An auto owned by Ingulls said to be valued at $3000 was confiscated.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 28 April 1931, page 1
Booker Ingulls, 26, Negro, Southgate st. and Central av. Newport, termed by Lexy Ford, chief of the Cincinnati federal narcotic squad, as one of the big shots in Newport's drug ring; was held under $10,000 bond and his hearing was set for May 14. Ford, who directed the investigation of the dope ring and headed the raids said his undercover men purchased drugs in the amount of $410 from Ingulls.
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Kentucky Post, Sunday, 3 May 1931, page 7
John Kovar, Hamilton O. through his unsuspecting aid, Lexy Ford, Federal narcotic agent, claims that the drug ring in Newport was broken up and that Booker Ingulls, Negro, one of the alleged big shots in the racket was captured. Kovar, peddled narcotics for Ingulls during the last several months. He admitted spending $5000 of his mother's money for narcotics, but denied selling any of them.