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Police and Fire

  • Bardstown Police officer shot and killed

    A Bardstown Police officer, Jason Scott Ellis, was shot and killed sometime before 2:40 this morning as he was was on his way home from work.

    Kentucky State Police officers are investigating the shooting, which happened on the Exit 34 ramp on the Blue Grass Parkway at Bloomfield Road. The officer was in uniform and was found outside the police car he was driving.

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  • Jail Logs-May 23-24

    Editor's note: The information below is a compiled list of daily booking logs from the Nelson County Jail. These are only a record of arrests. All individuals arrested are presumed innocent unless proven otherwise in a court of law. The bookings state the person(s) arrested and the charge(s) against them. This information is public record.  The Kentucky Standard believes the public has a right to know who has been arrested by local officials and lodged in the Nelson County Jail.

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  • PHOTOS: Puppy rescued from well
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  • PHOTO: Injury crash
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  • Man arrested in connection to bicycle theft

    Bardstown police arrested a man Thursday they believe tried to sell a stolen bicycle at a pawnshop last weekend.

    Dylan S. Mingus, 23, of Bardstown, was arrested following a tip to police.

    A press release by Bardstown Police stated Mingus was arrested Thursday on two outstanding warrants, one for shoplifting and another for theft of gasoline. When he was arrested, the release said, Mingus admitted to Detective Lynn Davis that he had stolen the bike and tried to sell it at Easy Money Pawn.

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  • Jail Logs-May 22-23

    Editor's note: The information below is a compiled list of daily booking logs from the Nelson County Jail. These are only a record of arrests. All individuals arrested are presumed innocent unless proven otherwise in a court of law. The bookings state the person(s) arrested and the charge(s) against them. This information is public record.  The Kentucky Standard believes the public has a right to know who has been arrested by local officials and lodged in the Nelson County Jail.

    Joshua Steve Witmer, 36, operating a motor vehicle without a license.

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  • One dead after single vehicle accident

    A Chaplin man was pronounced dead after a single vehicle accident Wednesday afternoon.

    According to a Nelson County Sheriff’s Office collision report, Don Blakey, 54, of Chaplin, was driving a Dodge Neon on Lawrenceburg Road in Chaplin around 6:30 p.m.

    Blakey’s vehicle ran off the right shoulder of the roadway and struck a culvert at a high rate of speed causing his vehicle to go airborne, according to the report. Blakey was ejected from his vehicle after striking a tree.

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  • Driver injured in mishap on Louisville Road
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  • Man injured in two-car crash on New Haven Road
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  • Jail Logs-May 21-22

    Editor's note: The information below is a compiled list of daily booking logs from the Nelson County Jail. These are only a record of arrests. All individuals arrested are presumed innocent unless proven otherwise in a court of law. The bookings state the person(s) arrested and the charge(s) against them. This information is public record.  The Kentucky Standard believes the public has a right to know who has been arrested by local officials and lodged in the Nelson County Jail.

    Justin David Borders, 23, second-degree burglary.

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