Crime

The hand gestures are supposed to represent violence at home, “I need help” or domestic violence.

On Thursday, the Bluegrass Narcotic Task Force and Kentucky State Polic targeted narcotics traffickers operating in Bourbon and Harrison counties.

A man is facing charges after Georgetown police say he chased down a car involved in a hit-and-run, forced it stop and then held the people in that car at gunpoint until police arrived.

The abandoned vehicle struck two LMPD vehicles.

Roger Burdette, 63, was convicted on one count of murder, four counts of wanton endangerment first degree, and single counts of operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicants and failure to give right of way to stopped emergency vehicle.

An Anderson County school teacher is facing a DUI charge after police say he was found passed out in his vehicle in the parking lot of the school where he teaches.

A college employee was granted an emergency protective order, EPO, against Jones on Monday, the same day he was terminated.

Police said they responded to Raintree Apartments at 9:53 about a shooting.

Friends of family are calling for justice in the latest round of Lexington’s gun violence, this time for 17-year-old Sergio Villarados, who was shot and killed.

According to the Mt. Sterling Police Department, nine people were charged in what they called a “large-scale drug trafficking organization” after a 10-month investigation.

The case against the man accused of murdering a Ty Abner in a Lexington parking garage is going to a grand jury.

Ibrahim Muhammad is facing charges of arson, murder, wanton endangerment, and assault.

Officers told WKYT that a vehicle flipped on Price Road just before 9 p.m. Thursday.

The suspect in two recent armed robberies in Mt. Sterling is now in custody.

Kendall Burk was charged with four counts of third-degree rape and four counts of sodomy.

Court documents show Sherry Murphy pleaded guilty to wanton endangerment as part of a plea agreement. Charges of intimdating a witness and assault were dropped.

A man is dead and another man has been arrested after an assault that happened in a parking garage in downtown Lexington.

Deputies said they reviewed surveillance video and saw inmate James Rose throw toilet paper, that was on fire, from his cell into the hallway.

A man was charged after a woman was found dead during a well-being check in Kenton County, according to police.

Ibrahim Muhammad, 23, was booked into the Franklin County Regional Jail Thursday evening on a $1 million full cash bond.

Amanda Marie Devers, 33, is charged with one count of murder.

A man has been convicted for shooting at a Kentucky police officer during a chase in Whitley County back in 2017.

Michael Wallace maintains he is innocent despite the conviction and plans to appeal. He also intends to run for Pulaski County Sheriff in 2022.

The reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the murder of Bryan McCarty has been raised.

Taylon A. Bensinger has been charged with murder and is currently in the Boyd County Detention Center.

Raudel Veloz Cruz, 35, of Louisville, is also charged with unlawful imprisonment.

Officers said they found a man and a woman shot and both were taken to the hospital.

The trial for a man accused in a quadruple homicide in Whitley County will happen after all.

A former Bath County sheriff’s deputy has pleaded guilty to the production of child pornography.

A Lexington man was sentenced to 262 months, more than 21 years, in federal prison for armed cocaine trafficking.