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Court/Criminal

  • Driver charged after fleeing from police

    A Louisville man is facing five counts of first-degree wanton endangerment after allegedly driving recklessly and attempting to elude police at speeds up to 100 miles per hour.
    Jesse Aaron Martin, 26, was driving a van toward Hodgenville on Ky. 210 about 4:30 p.m. on July 5, according to an arrest citation by Deputy Matt Darst. Other motorists had phoned in complaints that the van was running at a high rate of speed and running other cars off the road.

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  • Man charged with DUI after collision

    A Hodgenville man was charged with DUI June 28 after allegedly leaving the scene of an accident in Hardin County.
    Jacob Daniel Barnes, 26, was involved in a collision on Hawkins Drive in Elizabethtown, according to Officer Virgil Willoughby of Elizabethtown City Police. The Dodge van he was driving allegedly struck another vehicle, causing minor damage. Barnes continued driving into LaRue County where he was spotted by Constable Jeff Metcalf near the Leafdale community. Metcalf followed the vehicle to Buffalo where he was joined by Deputies Russell McCoy and Matt Darst.

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  • Man charged with threatening bus driver with kids on board

    A Hodgenville man has been charged with endangering students on a LaRue County school bus.
    Larry Steven Williams, 60, saw a school bus turn around in his driveway on White City Road on April 29 and began following it in his vehicle., according to an arrest warrant filed by Constable Jeff Metcalf.
    Williams passed the bus as it was entering a curve and incline, Metcalf said. Williams allegedly began honking his horn and drove around the bus “appearing to be in a very mad rage.” The bus driver moved over to let him pass, Metcalf said.

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  • Hodgenville man charged with burglary, theft, forgery

    A Hodgenville man has been charged with burglary and forgery after allegedly taking checks from two homes.
    Wesley S. Stoke, 25, formerly of Louisville, is accused of entering a house on Bardstown Road and taking checks, later using them to gain cash. He is accused also of taking checks from his roommate.
    Accord-ing to LaRue Deputy Matt Darst, one of the victims permitted Stokes to stay at his house “because he didn’t have a place to live.”

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  • Patterson charged with burglary

    Adam Christopher Patterson, 36, of Magnolia, was charged June 29 with first-degree burglary, theft by unlawful taking (firearm), possession of handgun by convicted felon, possession of marijuana, prescription or controlled substance not in original container, fleeing or evading police on foot and buy or possession of drug paraphernalia.

    LaRue Deputy Brian Smith made the arrest.

    Patterson was lodged in the LaRue County Detention Center and will be arraigned Wednesday in LaRue District Court.

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  • Scammers hit LaRue County

    If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
    LaRue County residents have been hit by scammers in recent weeks. While the styles are different, the results are the same: They want your money.
    Chief Deputy Russell McCoy said the “secret shopper scam” cost a local woman about $2,400 when she was fooled by a realistic-looking money order.

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  • Three charged with drug trafficking

    Three people are facing trafficking charges after officers allegedly found $4,000 worth of prescription drugs in their vehicle.
    Jennifer Lynn Ahmer, 26, and Robert Allen Fulkerson, 26, both of Greensburg, and Joseph Douglas Caven, 31, of Campbellsville, were each charged Thursday with first-degree trafficking in controlled substance, first-degree possession of controlled substance, possession of marijuana, prescription/controlled substance not in original container and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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  • Former inmate's injury case settled before trial

    A lawsuit filed by a former LaRue County jail inmate against the jail and Jailer Ralph “Mac” Trumbo has been settled before trial.
    And according to court documents, all parties have been ordered to remain mum about the terms.
    Michael Wayne Embree, 53, of Hodgenville and formerly of Buffalo, claimed in the 2008 civil suit that he was not properly treated for injuries sustained while an inmate in LaRue County.

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  • Man indicted on sexual abuse charges

    James Jeffries, 67, of Hodgenville, was arrested June 23 on indictments by a LaRue County grand jury.  The four-count indictment alleges that between Aug. 1, 2009 and Oct. 06, 2010 in LaRue County, Jeffries committed the offense of sexual abuse in the first degree by subjecting a juvenile who is incapable of consent because the juvenile is less than 12 years old to sexual contact. 

    Jeffries was lodged in the LaRue County Detention Center.

    The case was investigated by Det. Jason Propes of the Kentucky State Police.

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  • Two indicted on charges of conspiracy and harboring of undocumented worker

    WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced June 23 that Javier Arce, 58, and Cristina Mier Arce, 55, of Hardin County were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy and harboring of an undocumented Bolivian national for their financial gain.

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