At approximately 5 a.m. Monday Knox County Deputy Bobby Jones responded to a complaint of a burglary in progress at a residence on KY 229 near the Laurel County line.
A Corbin couple was arrested Thursday night for allegedly abusing a teen with a belt and extension cord.
Howard W. Smith, 45, and Amanda Smith, 39, are each facing one count of fourth-degree assault – child abuse.
In addition, Amanda Smith is charged with one count of first-degree strangulation.
Knox County Sheriff’s deputies were called to a residence on East Bryant Street, off of Master Street, at approximately 9:15 p.m. in response to a complaint of an out of control juvenile.
Deputy William Stewart, the department’s public affairs officer, stated that the juvenile told deputies that Howard Smith had struck him several times with a belt on multiple areas of his body.
A Keavy man is facing DUI and alcohol intoxication charges after police say he left the scene of a wreck on East Wyrick Street in Corbin early Wednesday morning
Knox County Sheriff’s Deputy Bobby Jones, Jr. arrested Brandon Lee Morgan, 26, after he was located at a residence on Kennedy Ave., off of Moore Hill Ave. in Corbin and determined to be legally intoxicated.
“At the that approximate time (2 a.m.), Deputy (Scotty) Wilson administered a (portable breathalyzer test) PBT which result was .125 percent,” Jones wrote in the arrest citation.
Under Kentucky law, the legal limit is .08.
The wreck in which Morgan had admitted to being involved in, occurred just after midnight.
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The Knox County Sheriff s Office says deputies were called out on a report of a woman being assaulted in a van just south of Barbourville. When police arrived in the area they saw the van pull into a gas station. When deputies approached the van the driver, later identified as 42-year-old Jackie Smith of North Carolina, threw suspected methamphetamine out the window. Police were able to retrieve the meth. After a brief struggle Smith was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance, tampering with physical evidence, assault, dating violence, resisting arrest and driving on a DUI suspended license. Smith was lodged in the Knox County Detention Center.
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