A vehicle pursuit crossed county lines from Carter into Rowan Saturday, according to Kentucky State Police.
Two troopers on patrol were behind a yellow Chevy Cobalt when it picked up speed and committed several traffic violations, according to KSP announcement.
When the troopers activated their lights, the Cobalt kicked the speed up a notch and crossed over into Rowan County, state police said.
At that point, the driver and front passenger bailed out of the car and ran on foot, KSP said. The driver, Berlin Johnson, and the front passenger, Brandy Flannery, were apprehended, the release states. A back seat passenger, Grady Scarbo was also arrested, according to police.
OLIVE HILL An Olive Hill man is dead following a car crash Monday evening Kentucky State Police suspect involved alcohol.
The crash happened around 7:30 p.m. when Chad David Sparks, 47, lost control of his vehicle at the 163 mile marker on eastbound I-64, according to Trooper Shane Goodall.
Sparks went off the right shoulder and struck a guardrail, causing him to shoot across the both lines of traffic and into the cable located in the median, Goodall said.
Upon impact, Goodall said Sparks, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the vehicle.
At this time, Goodall said alcohol is suspected in the crash.
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Crews from Illinois are staged at Pike Central High School. An extra 300 line workers, for a total of about 1,600, were brought to the area to help with power restoration from the second ice storm to move through Kentucky Powerâs territory.
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The latest wave of winter storms has left in its wake a devastating number of power outages in our area.Â
According to Kentucky Power, there are 58,000 AEP customers without power â 4,000 of those customers are from the original storm on Feb. 11.
A second storm hit Monday, bringing a mixture of ice, sleet and snow blanketing the entire Kentucky Power service territory, according to an AEP press release.