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Shelbyville Police Reports

Elizabeth Lancaster, 29, of Shelbyville, was arrested Jan. 11  on I-64 West and charged with leaving the scene of an accident, endangering the welfare of a minor, expires plates and failure to provide an insurance card.

Roy Hartell, 41, of Shelbyville, was arrested Jan. 10 on Hearthside Circle and charged with violaton of a Kentucky Emergency Protective Order.

For those of us already humbugged by how Christmas has changed over the years, we now have to recognize that our most precious holiday has devolved into, of all things, a leading economic indicator.    

So much is made of the economy during Christmas season that it seems who is spending how much with whom is discussed almost as much as Santa and far more than Jesus, which is more than a little bit wrong.

Shelbyville Police are asking for help in solving two burglaries that happened on

Monday.

Sometime between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Monday, a home on the 4900th block of

Bell Avenue was burglarized while the resident was not at home, according to

police. Items stolen included a handgun and a laptop computer.

The value of the items is estimated at nearly $1,400.

The other burglary happened in the same time period on Cyprus Court, and a laptop computer was taken from that residence also.

A Jeep was badly vandalized last weekend on Nora Drive and police are asking for the public's help in solving the crime.

Sometime late Saturday night or early Sunday morning someone busted the windshield on a Jeep Wrangler with a brick and cut all four of its tires and the spare, according to Shelbyville Police. The brick was also used to damage the body of the Jeep, which was parked next door to where the owner lived. Police say the owner of the Jeep does not know who or why someone would have done this to his vehicle.