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Cops & Courts

  • Shelbyville Police Reports May 22, 2013

    Traffic

    Vicente Romero Morales, 34, of 502 Marion Village was arrested May 15 at Mack Walters and Clifton Court and charged with no operator’s license.

     

    Drugs/Public Intoxication

    Anthony  D. Cardwell, 52, of 417 Mack Walters Road was arrested May 14 on Midland Trail and charged with trafficking in marijuana, first offense.

    Robert Allen Walls, 21, of 111 Gray Hawk Drive was arrested May 19 on Thorn Hill Drive and charged with alcohol intoxication in public, first offense.

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  • Court report: May 13, 2013

    District court

    The following cases were heard by Judge Linda Armstrong:

    Adalberto Gaspar-Leon, first-offense aggravator DUI – pleaded guilty – eight-days home incarceration program, operator's license suspended for 30 days and $728 fine and costs.

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  • Whitney Young student fight ends with 1 in jail

    A fight between two female students at the Whitney Young Job Corps Center in Simpsonville on Tuesday ended with one in jail and the other at University Hospital in Louisville.

    Celeste Hughes, 18, a resident of Chattanooga, Tenn., has been charged with first-degree assault after allegedly stabbing Kenya Slade, 19, four times with a pair of scissors.

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  • Fluid spill shuts down Midland Industrial

    A fluid spill at the intersection of Freedom’s Way and Midland Industrial Dr. on Monday morning shut down Midland Industrial and Haven Hill Road until late afternoon while crews cleaned the mess up, officials said.

    Emergency Management Agency Director Paul Whitman said a truck carrying a 55-gallon drum of hydraulic fluid to a plant in the industrial park lost the drum just after turning onto Midland Industrial from the bypass at about 11:30 a.m.

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  • Man charged with sex and other crimes arraigned Tuesday

    A man whom Shelbyville Police said held a woman at gun and knife point for five days last week was arraigned Tuesday in Shelby District Court.

    Gary Harris, 48, was arrested May 7 and charged with first-degree sodomy, first-degree unlawful imprisonment, fourth-degree assault and first-degree wanton endangerment.

    The woman, his girlfriend, was rescued by patrolmen Tuesday after being held by Harris at the point of a 14-inch hunting knife and gunpoint on his home on Bland Avenue.

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  • Monroe gets court date

    A man charged with manslaughter in a 2011 crash will head to court May 20 for a disposition hearing.

    Lonnie Monroe, 45, of Shelbyville originally was arrested Sept. 24 by Kentucky State Police and charged with murder in a tractor-trailer accident from November 2011. On Oct. 4, that charge was amended to second-degree manslaughter, which is a Class C felony that carries a penalty of 5 to 10 years in prison.

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  • Ex-correctional officer’s hearing delayed

    James Johnson, a correctional officer with the Kentucky Correctional Institute for Women in Pewee Valley, who was charged with sexual abuse of inmates last summer, next will appear June 17 for a status conference in Shelby Circuit Court.
    Johnson had been scheduled to appear today before the schedule changed.

    Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Melanie Carroll had said last fall that she expected Johnson to make a plea agreement with her office, but that arrangement has not materialized.

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  • Shelby County Sheriff's Reports May 15, 2013

    DUI

    William R. Mills, 34, of 28 Triple D Drive in Taylorsville was arrested March 19 on Picketts Dam Road and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, first offense and rear license not illuminated.

    Juan Gomez Mondragon, 32, of 4521 Taylorsville Road was arrested March 23 on Fisherville Road and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, first offense, no operator’s license and failure of owner to maintain required insurance, first offense.

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  • Court report: May 6, 2013

    District court

    The following cases were heard by Judge Donna Dutton:

    Gabriel O. Perez, no operator's/moped license and rear license not illuminated – guilty – 5-day sentence and $163 fine and costs.

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  • Two graduate drug court

    Shelby County Drug Court officials, including Circuit Court Judge Charles Hickman, were on hand Thursday to congratulate two Shelby County men who graduated from drug court after nearly two years of participation.

    Thomas Graft and Mike Reid, both of whom say they have college plans, entered the program in the summer of 2011 and have worked diligently since then, performing 40 and 63 hours of community service, respectively, and have been involved in many different kinds of charitable services.

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