LAWRENCE COUNTY ARREST LIST – APRIL 21-30, 2023

LAWRENCE COUNTY ARREST LIST – APRIL 21-30, 2023

MAY 2, 2023 – written by WADE QUEEN

FROM 12:00 A.M., APRIL 21, 2023, THRU TO 11:59 P.M., APRIL 30, 2023, (10 DAYS); AT LEAST 68 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED FROM JOHNSON, LAWRENCE, MAGOFFIN, & MARTIN COUNTIES COMBINED, AND WERE BOOKED AT THE BIG SANDY REGIONAL DETENTION CENTER IN PAINTSVILLE, KY., IN JOHNSON COUNTY.

OUT OF THOSE 68 ARRESTS, 11 ARRESTS WERE FROM LAWRENCE COUNTY.

SEPARATELY. THERE WERE TWO (2) LAWRENCE COUNTY RESIDENTS ARRESTED IN OTHER KY. COUNTIES ( ONE (1) IN JOHNSON COUNTY, AND ONE (1) IN MARTIN COUNTY).

PREVIOUSLY, FROM 12:00 A.M., APRIL 1, 2023, THRU TO 11:59 P.M., APRIL 20, 2023, (20 DAYS); AT LEAST 163 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED FROM JOHNSON, LAWRENCE, MAGOFFIN, & MARTIN COUNTIES COMBINED, AND WERE BOOKED AT THE BIG SANDY REGIONAL DETENTION CENTER IN PAINTSVILLE, KY., IN JOHNSON COUNTY. OUT OF THOSE 163 ARRESTS, 30 ARRESTS WERE FROM LAWRENCE COUNTY.

ONE OF THE LOCAL ARREST SUBJECTS WAS LATER TAKEN TO BULLITT COUNTY. ALSO, THERE IS AN ARREST THAT HAS BEEN ADDED THAT WAS MISSED ON THE PREVIOUS ARREST REPORT, THAT WAS FROM THE END OF MARCH; OF A LOUISA MAN WHO HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOUR (4) TIMES FROM MARCH 30 TO APRIL 20. SEPARATELY. THERE WERE NINE LAWRENCE COUNTY RESIDENTS ARRESTED IN OTHER KY. COUNTIES (ONE(1) IN BOYD COUNTY [WHO WAS LATER TAKEN TO GREENUP COUNTY] , ONE (1) IN JOHNSON COUNTY, THREE (3) IN MARTIN COUNTY [ONE OF WHOM WAS LATER TAKEN TO BOYD COUNTY], TWO (2) IN MAGOFFIN COUNTY, ONE (1) IN CASEY COUNTY, AND ONE (1) IN CARTER COUNTY [WHO WAS THEN TAKEN TO ROWAN COUNTY]).

THE NUMBER OF INMATES THAT WERE BEING HOUSED AT THE BIG SANDY REGIONAL DETENTION CENTER IN PAINTSVILLE, KY, IN JOHNSON COUNTY, ON TUESDAY, MAY 2, AT 12:00 A.M., WAS 192 (AND HAD BEEN UP IN THE LOW 210s IN THE LATTER PART OF LAST WEEK). THE MAXIMUM DESIGNATED CAPACITY OF THE BSRDC FACILITY IS 225.

HERE ARE THE THIRTY-ONE (11) ARRESTS IN LAWRENCE COUNTY, AND ALSO THE TWO (2) LAWRENCE COUNTY RESIDENTS OUT OTHER COUNTY ARRESTS, ARE AS THE FOLLOWING:

Del Ray Griffith, 49, of Louisa Kentucky; was arrested on April 21, 2023, at 12:23 P.M.,at the Lawrence County Judicial Center,by court security officer Melody Salyers, of the Lawrence County Sheriff Office, and was charged with via a bench warrant:

• POSSESSION CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE 1ST DEGREE, 1ST OFFENSE (METHAMPHETAMINE),

• DRUG PARAPHERNALIA – BUY/POSSESS.

Ashley S. Wright, 32, of Fort Gay, West Virginia; was arrested on April 21, 2023, at 11:03 P.M.,by deputy Joseph Osborne, of the Lawrence County Sheriff Office, and was charged with via a grand jury indictment:

• OPERATING ON SUSPENDED OR REVOKED OPERATORS LICENSE,

• OPERATING MOTOR VEHICLE UNDER/INFLUENCE ALCOHOL.08 (189A.010(1A)

– 1ST (AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES),

• LEAVING SCENE OF ACCIDENT-FAILURE TO RENDER AID OR ASSISTANCE,

• IMPROPER DISPLAY OF REGISTRATION PLATES,

• POSSESSION OF OPEN ALCOHOL BEVERAGE CONTAINER IN MOTOR VEHICLE PROHIBITED,

• FAILURE TO NOTIFY ADRS CHANGE TO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.

Tracy H. Smith, 58, of Louisa, Kentucky; was arrested on April 22, 2023, at 9:32 P.M., by patrolman officer Teddy B.Newsome,of the Louisa Police Department, and was charged with:

• POSSESSION CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE 1ST DEGREE, 1ST OFFENSE (METHAMPHETAMINE),

• POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA,

• CARELESS DRIVING,

• FAILURE TO PRODUCE INSURANCE CARD.

Monroe David Bowen, 40, of Louisa,Kentucky; was arrested on April 23, 2023, at 8:45 P.M., by trooper Brett Criswell, of the Kentucky State Police, and was charged with:

• FLAGRANT NON SUPPORT.

Andrew T Brown, 35, of Blaine, Kentucky; was arrested on April 23, 2023, at 11:05 P.M.,by deputy Joseph Osborne,of the Lawrence County Sheriff Office, and was charged with:

• RECKLESS DRIVING, FAILURE TO NOTIFY ADDRESS CHANGE TO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION,

• FAILURE TO OR IMPROPER SIGNAL,

• OPERATING ON SUSPENDED OR REVOKED OPERATORS LICENSE,

• FLEEING OR EVADING POLICE, 1ST DEGREE (MOTOR VEHICLE),

• OPERATING MOTOR VEHICLE UNDER/INFLUENCE ALCOHOL .08 (189A.010(1A) – 1ST OFFENSE.

Richard L. Smith, 46, of Louisa, Kentucky; was arrested on April 24, 2023, at 8:45 P.M., and was charged with:

• RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY UNDER/$500.

Ami Nicole Quesenberry, 42, of Louisa,Kentucky; was arrested on April 24, 2023, at 8:45 P.M.,by deputy Joseph Osborne,of the Lawrence County Sheriff Office, and was charged with:

• BURGLARY, 2ND DEGREE.

Thomas E. McDavid, 40, of Pikeville, Kentucky; was arrested on April 25, 2023, at 11:01 A.M., by trooper Wesley Music, of the Kentucky State Police, & was charged with:

• SERVING PAROLE VIOLATION WARRANT.

James Arthur Mullett, 40, of Louisa, Kentucky; was taken into custody on April 25, 2023, at 7:14 P.M., by the Lawrence County Sheriff Office, to serve a guilty plea jail sentence, “weekender”:

• CONTEMPT OF COURT LIBEL/SLANDER RESISTANCE TO ORDER.

Paul S. Hackney, 41, of Louisa, Kentucky; was arrested on April 27, 2023, at 10:20 P.M.,by deputy Tyler Laney, of the Lawrence County Sheriff Office, and was charged with:

• POSSESSION OF HANDGUN BY CONVICTED FELON.

Austin T. Jackson, 26, of Fort Gay, West Virginia; was arrested on April 30, 2023, at 2:45 P.M., by sergeant Steven Wilburn, of the Louisa Police Department, and was charged with:

• RAPE, 2ND DEGREE (MENTALLY INCAPACITATED),

• UNLAWFUL TRANSACTION WITH/MINOR 2ND DEGREE.

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Randall S. Bowen, 29, of Louisa, Kentucky; was arrested in Martin County, on April 21, 2023, at 4:30 P.M., by deputy Chris Kidd, of the Martin County Sheriff Office, & was charged with:

• SERVING TWO BENCH WARRANTS FOR COURT.

Nathaniel D. Slone, 37, of Lowmansville, Kentucky; was taken into custody in Johnson County, on April 28, 2023, at 6:00 P.M., by the Johnson County Sheriff Office, to serve a guilty plea jail sentence, “weekender”: