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Cops & Courts

  • Suit against Robert Myles dismissed in Anderson

    A lawsuit filed against Shelby County resident and part-time City of Lawrenceburg attorney Robert W. Myles was dismissed Tuesday in Anderson Circuit Court but is expected to be refiled in Shelby Circuit Court.

    The lawsuit claimed that a security agreement created in 2004 by Myles for a Shelby County couple was inadequate for the couple to recoup more than $100,000 from the sale of livestock and other items on a 3-year balloon payment.

  • Shelby County Grand Jury Indictments: April 18, 2013

    Gregory Marshall, 58, of 110 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and Carson D. Holland, 38, of 315 Sulpher Ave. in Eminence were indicted for possession of a controlled substance (cocaine) complicity, tampering with physical evidence, complicity, second-degree possession of a controlled substance (hydrocodone), possession of drug paraphernalia, complicity, resisting arrest, possession of a controlled substance no in original container, giving a false name or address to a peace officer and being a persistent felony offender.

  • Court report: April 8, 2013

    District court

    The following cases were heard by Judge Donna Dutton:

    Griselda P. Banuelos-Abelar, speeding 20 mph over limit and no operator's/moped license – guilty – 30-day sentence conditionally discharged for 2 years and $458 fine and costs.

  • Man arrested in beating of Shelby woman

     

    Shelbyville Police have arrested Geremiah Woods, a suspect they had sought since March 12 in connection with the  severe beating and robbing of a woman in the parking lot of Berea Summit apartments.

    Woods, 20, is charged with first-degree robbery and first-degree assault of Amy E. Douglas of Shelbyville.

    Woods was arrested Sunday on Mack Walters Road without incident, Shelbyville Police Chief Danny Goodwin said.

  • Chain collision

    No one was injured seriously in a 5-vehicle chain reaction accident on Taylorsville Road just before 5 p.m. Monday afternoon. The accident caused a slight back up near the intersection of Taylorsville Road and U.S. 60 for about an hour.

  • Court report: April 1, 2013

    District court

    The following cases were heard by Judge Linda Armstrong:

    Daniel Alvarez-Diaz, speeding 14 mph over limit and no operator's/moped license – pleaded guilty – 30-day sentence conditionally discharged for 2 years and $421 fine and costs.

  • Motorcyclist dies in accident in Simpsonville

    A Crestwood man was killed Wednesday night in a single vehicle accident in Simpsonville, police say.

    Kentucky State Police Trooper Kendra Wilson, assistant public affairs officer for Post 12, said that Steven A. Ball, 40, was traveling east on Aiken Road at 7:50 p.m. when he failed to negotiate a curve in the 6000 block.

    He lost control of his 2006 Yamaha motorcycle, striking a road sign.

    Shelby County Chief Deputy Coroner Jeff Ivers said that Ball, who was wearing a helmet, died at the scene of the accident.

  • Man held in Shelby turned loose in Fayette

    Police are looking for a man who federal marshals consider to be armed and dangerous after he was mistakenly was released from the Fayette County Detention Center.

    Rodney Dewayne Bell, 28, had been jailed for a short time at the Shelby County Detention Center, after being arrested in Anderson County on drugs charges, because the detention center houses Anderson County inmates, said Tony Aldridge, a captain at the Shelby County Detention Center.

  • Poole’s trial date postponed

    A jury trial scheduled for April 10 for Linda Poole, a Bagdad woman who was indicted in February for embezzling more than $110,000 from her employer, has been postponed, said Shelby County Commonwealth Attorney Laura Donnell.

    A new date has not yet been scheduled.

    Poole, 57, was indicted on 11 counts of theft by unlawful taking of more than $10,000, two counts of theft by unlawful taking by disposition and seven counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument in connection with thefts from Amen East, an auto salvage business in Bagdad.

  • Shelby County Sheriff's Reports April 19, 2013

    DUI

    Derek Garten, 32, of 2967 Waddy Road was arrested Feb. 7 on Waddy Road at the Flying J Truck Stop and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or drugs, first offense, endangering the welfare of a minor, two counts of terroristic threatening, harassing communications, third-degree criminal mischief, third-degree escape and resisting arrest.

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