A TRIGG COUNTY MAN WHO HAS BEEN A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE FOR A YEAR AND IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW FOR THE BETTER PART OF TWO DECADES IS BACK IN JAIL.
             STATE POLICE ARRESTED 64-YEAR OLD MICHAEL “MICKEY” BRASHEARS SUNDAY MORNING ON CERULEAN-HOPKINSVILLE ROAD IN THE CERULEAN AREA OF TRIGG COUNTY. BRASHEARS HAD ALLEGEDLY BEEN HIDING IN FIELDS, WOODED AREAS AND LIVING IN A TENT FOR THE LAST 12 MONTHS AFTER TROOPERS ALLEGEDLY FOUND A MARIJUANA GROWING OPERATION ON HIS PROPERTY WHILE HE WAS OUT ON BOND FROM A PREVIOUS DRUG CHARGE IN 2007.
              POLICE SAY HE WAS ARMED WITH TWO FIREARMS, BUT WAS ARRESTED WITHOUT INCIDENT AROUND 9:15 AM.
              IN ADDITION TO THE RECENT DRUG CHARGES, BRASHEARS HAS ALSO FACED BURGLARY AND FIREARMS CHARGES GOING BACK TO 1986.
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