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Cops & Courts

  • Kovacs promoted to assistant chief

    The Shelbyville Police Department has undergone several personnel changes this year, with the most recent being the naming of Istvan “Ish” Kovacs as new assistant police chief.

    Kovacs, formerly the department’s community resource officer, was promoted to the rank of major on Friday, denoting the status of assistant chief of police.

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  • Shelbyville man set for trial on sex charges

    Two Shelbyville men charged with sex crimes saw their cases advanced through the court system on Friday.
     

    Jessie Allen Stump, 61, of 110 Ada Ave., indicted last summer with multiple counts of sexual-related offenses against two female children who are related to him, will face those charges in a jury trial on March 18 in Shelby County Circuit Court.

    Stump was indicted in July 2012 on two counts each of first-degree rape and incest of two children for which he was babysitting.

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  • Waddy woman says her pit bull didn't mutilate animals

    A Waddy resident has come forward to claim the dog confiscated last week in connection with some animal attacks.

    However, officials at the Shelby County Animal Shelter refuse to release her dog, the owner said.

    “They say they won’t let me have him until they are sure he is not the dog they’re looking for,” said Brenda Tillett of Waddy.

    The pit bull is a suspect in animal mutilations that killed several animals in late November and early December and ripped off a cow’s ears as recently as Jan. 6.

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  • Simpsonville woman arraigned in dog shooting

    A Simpsonville woman was arraigned in Shelby District Court on Tuesday on four misdemeanor charges in connection with the alleged shooting of several dogs in October.

    Virginia Bohannon. 54, of 5477 Fisherville Road was charged with four counts of third-degree unlawful transaction with a minor, a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $500 fine.

    According to court records, a criminal summons was issued to Bohannon on Dec. 7, charging her with assisting three juveniles in obtaining a firearm in order to kill four family pet dogs.

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  • Police looking for suspects in Spencer stabbing

    Police are looking for suspects in a stabbing they say happened on Airport Road in Spencer County on Wednesday night and drew the response from emergency employees in Shelby.

    “A call came into Shelby County 911, and they did a good job of tracing the call to pinpoint a location,” Kentucky State Police Spokesperson Ron Turley said. “We caught up with the individual who was stabbed at Elk Creek Grocery.”

    Turley said the man who airlifted to the University of Louisville with non-life-threatening injuries.

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  • Hawks gets 20 years in child porn

    LAWRENCEBURG – The Lawrenceburg man who late last year pleaded guilty to a host of child pornography distribution charges in Anderson and Shelby counties was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday morning in Anderson County Circuit Court.

    Mark Hawks, 55, who previously lived at 402 Secretariat Drive, received the maximum sentence allowed, according to Commonwealth’s Attorney Laura Donnell.

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  • EARLIER: Captured pit bull could be attacking animal in Waddy

    Two women from Waddy heroically saved a beloved family pet Thursday and in the process may have captured the creature that has mutilated several animals on nearby farms.

    The suspect in custody is an adult male pit bull that was seen attacking livestock before it jumped a defenseless dog and ultimately was succumbed to two undaunted sisters.

    The pit bull is a suspect in animal mutilations that killed several animals in late November and early December and a cow’s ears were ripped off in an attack as recently as Jan. 6.

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  • 2 from Shelby set for deportation

    Two Guatemala natives who were in the United States illegally and had been living in Shelby County have been sentenced on federal charges.

    Cruz De Jesus Pena-Villanueva and Norma Elizabeth Gutierrez-Perez were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Frankfort Tuesday.

    Pena-Villanueva received 12 months for entering the United States illegally after already having been deported once. Gutierrez-Perez received 25 months for identity theft.

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  • Woman arrested in abduction hoax that reached Shelby

    A woman has been charged with creating a hoax that apparently roused law enforcement officials in Shelby County earlier Tuesday.

    The Kentucky Standard posted on its Facebook page Tuesday afternoon that WHAS-TV in Louisville had reported that a woman was arrested for falsely reporting an abduction attempt in the Cracker Barrel parking lot in Bardstown.

    Police took a closer look at the video and determined that the van did not match reports from other victims, according to WHAS.

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  • Shelby woman charged with child abuse

    Kentucky State Police have charged Samantha Holt, 22, of Shelby County with first-degree criminal abuse in connection with an injured 2-year-old.

    Kentucky State Police spokesman Ron Turley said that troopers responded to a call about an injured child that came in at 11:55 p.m. Wednesday from a residence on Eminence Pike.

    KSP trooper Eddie Whitworth said that along with EMS, Shelby County 911 dispatched deputies from the Shelby County Sheriff’s office to the scene as well, and KSP also decided to check it out because it sounded suspicious.

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