An undercover investigation lasting months led to the arrest of a Lubbock man, accused of possessing methamphetamine.
Matthew Jacob Janssen, 23, was arrested on October 7. According to the affidavit for arrest warrant, Janssen possessed 400 grams or more of a controlled substance.
The warrant said Lubbock Police officers observed Janssen leaving his apartment at the 700 block of N. Ithaca Avenue, and deliver a controlled substance on multiple occasions.
Police said a male subject, possibly an associate of Janssen’s, was seen with a package, a shoe box, which was determined to contain “a large amount of crystal substance that field tested positive for methamphetamines. The crystal substance weighed 692.46 grams. The package also contained a white powder substance that field tested positive for cocaine and weighed 2.66 grams.”
In the warrant, the LPD officer explained that the male had been, “directed to Matthew Jacob Janssen’s residence to retrieve the box.”
Janssen was arrested for “delivery of a controlled substance 1-4 grams in a drug free zone.”
According to warrant, confidential informants for LPD arranged to purchase drugs from a man identified by undercover officers as Janssen multiple times between March 2016 and October 2016.
Janssen was also arrested in 2014 in connection with the shooting of Raymond “Kaleb” Hockenberry.
His bond was set at $10,000 for the cocaine possession, and $500,000 for the methamphetamine. Both charges are second-degree felonies.
