Cops & Courts

District court

The following cases were heard by Judge Matthew K. Eckert:

Melody L. Abell, first-offense DUI – pleaded guilty – operator's license suspended for 30 days and $728 fine and costs.

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, was scheduled to appear in Shelby Circuit Court on Monday for a final pretrial conference before his case goes to trial next month, but had that date changed to March 4.  

Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Melanie Carroll had said last fall that she expected Johnson to make a plea agreement with her office, but that arrangement never materialized.

Customers got a big shock at about 6 a.m. Thursday when a pick up truck jumped a curb at It’s Convenient on Main Street and ran into the front of the store so hard that the impact broke the front window and caved in the bricks, right where the cashier checks out customers.

“It came just barreling right through the parking lot and, bam, right into the building,” store owner Ruth Hodge said.

TAYLORSVILLE-A Mount Eden man accused of shooting at and pistol-whipping his girlfriend last March  has been arraigned in Spencer Circuit Court.

Benjamin W. Mobley, 59, of the 2100 block of Murphy Lane, was indicted in early December 2012 on charges of criminal attempted murder, second-degree assault and first-degree wanton endangerment.