PICTURED FROM LEFT TO RIGHT IN THE ATTACHED PHOTO:

ADAM ROBERTSON, ROBERT SIBAL, SHANNAN WHITE-TINSLEY, AND ROGERS STEPHENS

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            FOUR HOPKINSVILLE POLICE OFFICERS PERFORMED WELL IN A RECENT STATEWIDE FITNESS CHALLENGE.

            REPRESENTING HOPKINSVILLE IN THE FIRST ANNUAL KENTUCKY OFFICERS FITNESS CHALLENGE WERE OFFICERS ROBERT SIBAL, ADAM ROBERTSON, ROGERS STEPHENS AND SHANNAN WHITE-TINSLEY.

            THE OFFICERS TOOK PART IN 27 EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE ON A 1.1 MILE OBSTACLE COURSE FOR THE TEAM CHALLENGE AND 23 EVENTS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL OBSTACLE COURSE.

            OFFICER ROBERTSON TOOK 1^ST PLACE FOR HIS CATEGORY IN THE OBSTACLE COURSE AND 3^RD PLACE IN THE OVERALL INDIVIDUAL EVENT. OFFICER WHITE-TINSLEY TOOK 1^ST PLACE FOR HER CATEGORY IN THE OBSTACLE COURSE AND ALL FOUR OFFICERS TOOK 3^RD PLACE IN THE OVERALL TEAM EVENT.

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            TWO SUSPECTS WERE ARRESTED EARLIER THIS WEEK FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING TWO GUNS FROM A PEMBROKE MAN.

            THE REPORT FROM THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS A CITIZEN TOLD DORRIS STOKES OF 790 MASON LANE THAT SOMEONE HAD BEEN IN HIS GARAGE EARLY SUNDAY MORNING.

            WHEN STOKES WENT TO HIS GARAGE, TWO SHOTGUNS WITH A COMBINED VALUE OF SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS WERE MISSING.

            DEPUTIES WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE IT WAS 19-YEAR OLD MARSHALL AUSTIN OF 336 SOUTH MAIN STREET, PEMBROKE AND 20-YEAR OLD CODY AUSTIN OF 130 GLENVIEW DRIVE, HOPKINSVILLE WHO HAD TAKEN THE TWO GUNS.

            THE TWO GUNS WERE REPORTEDLY FOUND AT AUSTIN’S HOME, WITH THE PAIR ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH THEFT.

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HUNTER

            THE WEDNESDAY MORNING HIGH SPEED CHASE ACROSS CHRISTIAN COUNTY COULD HAVE ENDED DIFFERENTLY IN SO MANY WAYS, AND FEW OF THEM WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD.

            AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED, 27-YEAR OLD JONATHAN HUNTER OF ASHLAND CITY, TENNESSEE LED SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES AND MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE ON A HALF-HOUR LONG PURSUIT THAT INCLUDED A WRECK WITH INJURY AND A PURSUIT GOING THE WRONG DIRECTION ON I-24.

            THE REPORT FROM THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS THE MAN INJURED IN A WRECK AT I-24 AND KENTUCKY 115 WAS 45-YEAR OLD PAUL RADFORD OF CLARKSVILLE, WHO WAS NORTHBOUND ON THE ROADWAY WHEN HUNTER DROVE INTO HIS PATH.

            RADFORD WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL FOR WHAT APPEARED TO BE MINOR INJURIES. AFTER THE ACCIDENT, HUNTER ALLEGEDLY TURNED BACK AROUND AND DROVE TOWARD POLICE AND RADFORD AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED AS IF HE WOULD RUN THEM OVER.

            THAT’S WHEN DEPUTY KAYCE GREEN POINTED HIS HANDGUN AT HUNTER’S WINDSHIELD AND ACTIVATED THE LASER.

            HUNTER DROVE SEVERAL MILES IN THE WRONG DIRECTION AT SPEEDS OF OVER 110 MILES PER HOUR BEFORE GETTING OFF AT EXIT 4 AND BEING ARRESTED BY MONTGOMERY COUNTY POLICE BETWEEN CLARKSVILLE AND GUTHRIE.

            TWO PASSENGERS “HUNKERED DOWN” IN HUNTER’S VEHICLE DURING THE CHASE, THOUGH THEY WERE NOT CHARGED WITH ANY CRIMES. HUNTER IS CHARGED WITH NUMEROUS CRIMES, INCLUDING FLEEING FROM POLICE AND SEVERAL COUNTS OF WANTON ENDANGERMENT.

            THE INCIDENT BEGAN WHEN SOMEONE CALLED THE ECC REPORTING HUNTER HAD STOLEN AN ATV IN TRIGG COUNTY, WHICH WAS DAMAGED IN THE WRECK ON 115.

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Britt

            STATE POLICE SAY METHAMPETAMINE CONTRIBUTED TO AN INCIDENT IN BARREN COUNTY LAST WEEK WHERE A MAN WAS KILLED BY AN ARROW.

            A NEWS RELEASE SAYS 35-YEAR OLD JASON BRITT OF BOWLING GREEN IS CHARGED WITH SECOND DEGREE MANSLAUGHTER FOR ALLEGEDLY WANTONLY SHOOTING 51-YEAR OLD RONALD LEE OF MORGANTOWN SATURDAY WITH A COMPOUND BOW WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF METH.

            BRITT IS LODGED IN THE WARREN COUNTY JAIL, WHILE NO CHARGES ARE LISTED AGAINST HIS WIFE SHARON BRITT. KSP SAYS THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.

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Switzer

            A CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER WAS ARRESTED AGAIN YESTERDAY AFTER BEING FOUND ALLEGEDLY LIVING SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN HIS ADDRESS LISTED ON THE REGISTRY.

            THE ARREST CARD FROM HOPKINSVILLE POLICE SAYS OFFICERS FOUND 63-YEAR OLD GUSTAVE GEORGE SWITZER LIVING AT THE FAIRVIEW INN ON NORTH MAIN STREET.

            SWITIZER’S ADDRESS ON THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY IS LISTED AS DAWSON SPRINGS. HE WAS PLACED ON THE REGISTRY DUE TO A RAPE CONVICTION IN ILLINOIS, WITH THE VICTIM 24-YEARS OLD AT THE TIME.

            SWITZER WAS LODGED IN THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY JAIL.

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