SETTLE

          THE TRIGG COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE ARRESTED A CADIZ MAN ON BURGLARY CHARGES SUNDAY.
          A NEWS RELEASE FROM SHERIFF RAY BURNAM SAYS DEPUTY GREYSON TAYLOR INITIATED AN INVESTIGATION AFTER A SATURDAY AFTERNOON BURGLARY IN THE LINTON AREA. SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE WAS USED TO OBTAIN AN ARREST WARRANT AGAINST 52-YEAR OLD RICKY ALAN SETTLE OF THE E-ROSS SCHOOL ROAD, CADIZ.
          SETTLE WAS ARRESTED SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND CHARGED WITH 2^ND DEGREE BURGLARY AND LODGED IN THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY JAIL.
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Chester

            A HOPKINSVILLE MAN WAS ARRESTED EARLY THIS MORNING ON MULTIPLE CHARGES AFTER A BRIEF FOOT CHASE.

            THE ARREST CARD FOR 47-YEAR OLD LESLIE CHESTER SAYS OFFICERS WERE DISPATCHED TO 2005 OAK STREET AFTER A WOMAN CALLED THE ECC SAYING AN UNKNOWN HEAVYSET BLACK MALE WEARING A WHITE JACKET AND BLUE JERSEY HAD JUST WALKED INTO HER HOUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION.

            THE SUSPECT LEFT THE RESIDENCE AND WALKED DOWN THE STREET, WITH OFFICERS FINDING A MALE MEETING THE DESCRIPTION SITITNG IN THE DRIVERS SIDE OF A VEHICLE PARKED ON THE SIDE OF ROADWAY.

            WHEN CHESTER SAW POLICE, HE ALLEGEDLY GOT OUT OF THE VEHICLE AND RAN, TOSSING A CAR STEREO INTO THE BUSHES AS HE WENT. OFFICERS TOLD CHESTER SEVERAL TIMES TO STOP, BUT HE CONTINUED UNTIL POLICE CAUGHT UP TO HIM AND PHYSICALLY RESTRAINED HIM.

            POLICE ALSO DETERMINED THE VEHICLE, BELONGING TO DIAMOND MCARTHUR OF HOPKINSVILLE, HAD ITS DASH BOARD RIPPED APART WHEN CHESTER WAS ALLEGEDLY INSIDE REMOVING THE STEREO.

            CHESTER WAS CHARGED WITH THEFT, FLEEING FROM POLICE AND ALCOHOL INTOXICATION AND LODGED IN THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY JAIL.

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MART

            A TIP FROM THE PUBLIC HELPED THE TRIGG COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE ARREST A CADIZ WOMAN ON THEFT CHARGES YESTERDAY.

            SHERIFF RAY BURNAM SAYS 27-YEAR OLD APRIL MART OF IRON STREET WAS ARRESTED ON BURGLARY AND THEFT BY UNLWFUL TAKING CHARGES FOR ALLEGEDLY BREAKING INTO THE OLD ELK BRAND BUILDING AND TAKING SEVERAL METAL AND COPPER ITEMS.

            THE SHERIFF SAYS MORE CHARGES MAY BE FORTHCOMING.

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            A WRECK AT CANTON STREET AND NORTH DRIVE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON INJURED TWO.

            THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 4:13, ACCORDING TO THE REPORT, WHICH SAYS 18-YEAR OLD HOPE RUZICKA OF HOPKINSVILLE AND 20-YEAR OLD LARUREN GILFORD WERE HEADING OPOSITE DIRECTIONS ON CANTON AND BOTH HAD GREEN LIGHTS WHEN MS. RUZICKA ATTEMPTED TO MAKE A LEFT TURN ONTO NORTH DRIVE AND TURNED INTO THE PATH OF MS. GILFORD.

            MS. GILFORD WAS UNABLE TO AVOID A COLLISSION AND THE FRONT ENDS OF THE VEHICLES MET IN THE INTERSECTION. MS. RUZICKA AND HER PASSENGER WENT UNINJURED, WHILE MS. GILFORD AND PASSENGER 23-YEAR OLD JAMES GILFORD OF HOPKINSVILLE WERE TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER.

            EVERYONE INVOLVED WAS WEARING A SEAT BELT.

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POWELL

            THE SUSPECT ACCUSED OF STEALING SEVERAL ITEMS FROM ROEDER IMPLEMENT LAST WEEK WAS ARRESTED YESTERDAY.

            THE WARRANT AGAINST 34-YEAR OLD PHILLIP DEWAYNE POWELL OF HOPKINSVILLE SAYS HE TOOK TRACTOR AND COMBINE COMPONENTS FROM THE PEMBROKE ROAD BUSINESS THURSDAY AND ATTEMPTED TO SELL THEM AT GREEN EARTH RECYCLING.

            THE VALUE OF THE ITEMS TO ROEDER IMPLEMENT IS LISTED AS $2,750, WHILE POWELL ONLY RECEIVED $239.80 FOR THE METAL. POWELL WAS CHARGED WITH RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY AND THEFT BY DECEPTION AND LODGED IN THE CHRSITIAN COUNTY JAIL.

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