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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           CLARKSVILLE POLICE HAVE RELEASED THE NAME OF THE MAN KILLED WALKING ACROSS FORT CAMPBELL BOULEVARD SATURDAY MORNING.

           A NEWS RELEASE FROM PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER JIM KNOLL IDENTIFIES THE VICTIM AS 27-YEAR OLD OLAF HERNANDEZ –ANTONIO OF FORT CAMPBELL.

          THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 5:17 AM SATURDAY, WHEN ANTONIO REPORTEDLY WALKED ONTO FORT CAMPBELL BOULEVARD WEARING DARK CLOTHING AND LOOKING DOWN AT HIS CELL PHONE.

          24-YEAR OLD CHRISTOPHER RUTHERFORD OF CLARKSVILLE ATTEMPTED TO AVOID COLLISION, BUT WAS UNABLE TO DO SO. THE INCIDENT HAPPENED IN THE AREA OF THE WINNER CIRCLE MOTEL.
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            ALCOHOL WAS A FACTOR IN THE PREVIOUSLY REPORTED SHOOTING ON FOREST CIRCLE IN CADIZ FRIDAY NIGHT.

            A NEWS RELEASE FROM THE TRIGG COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS 50-YEAR OLD PAMELA HARRELL OF CADIZ AND THE VICTIM, DARLA MITCHELL, WERE INTOXICATED WHEN HARRELL PICKED UP A PISTOL AND STATED SHE WOULD USE IT ON ANY THIEVES SHE CAUGHT ON HER PROPERTY.

MITCHELL THEN TOOK THE GUN AND REMOVED THE MAGAZINE AND BULLETS. THE PAIR DIDN’T REALIZE THE GUN STILL HAD ONE LIVE ROUND AND HARRELL POINTED THE GUN IN THE DIRECTION OF MITCHELL AND PULLED THE TRIGGER.

MITCHELL WAS SHOT THROUGH THE BREAST AND ARM AND WAS TREATED AND RELEASED FROM TRIGG COUNTY HOSPITAL. STATE POLICE ASSISTED DEPUTIES ON THE SCENE.

MITCHELL WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH 1^ST DEGREE WANTON ENDANGERMENT.

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            AT LEAST ONE OF SATURDAY’S HAM FESTIVAL ATTENDEES WENT TO JAIL INSTEAD OF HOME AFTERWARD.

            A NEWS RELEASE FROM TRIGG COUNTY SHERIFF RAY BURNAM SAYS 18-YEAR OLD TEVIN ROBERTSON OF WEST 7^TH STREET, HOPKINSVILLE WAS ARRESTED ON TRAFFICKING IN MARIJUANA, FLEEING FROM POLICE, RESISTING ARREST AND PUBLIC INTOXICATION.

            ROBERTSON WAS REPORTEDLY SPOTTED IN A FIELD JUST NORTH OF DOWNTOWN CADIZ AND RAN WHEN POLICE ATTEMPTED TO APPROACH HIM.

            THE TRIGG COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE WAS ASSISTED BY STATE AND CADIZ POLICE.

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            AN OFF-DUTY HOPKINSVILLE POLICE OFFICER WAS INJURED IN A TWO-VEHICLE WRECK ON COUNTRY CLUB LANE LAST NIGHT.

            THE REPORT FROM CITY POLICE SAYS A BACK TIRE AND WHEEL CAME OFF THE HUB OF A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY 22-YEAR OLD JOSHUA MEADOWS OF HOPKINSVILLE AROUND 8:30.

            ALSO WESTBOUND ON COUNTRY CLUB WAS 53-YEAR OLD NANNETTA SANDERS CATLETT OF HOPKINSVILLE, WHO DIDN’T SEE THE TIRE IN THE ROAD IN TIME TO STOP.

            MS. CATLETT’S VEHICLE WENT AIRBORNE AFTER HITTING THE TIRE AND CAME TO REST IN A DEEP DRAINAGE DITCH. A PASSENGER IN HER VEHICLE, 52-YEAR OLD JULIUS CATLETT OF HOPKINSVILLE, WAS TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO JENNIE STUART MEDICAL CENTER FOR INJURIES TO THE ARMS AND HANDS.

            CATLETT IS A SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER FOR THE HOPKINSVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

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