State-Journal.com - Cross-dresser charged with several driving offenses

A Lexington man stopped for DUI in Franklin County has been indicted for numerous driving offenses including allegedly giving a police officer a female's driver's license.

Frank Ellis Jackson III, 28, of Patterson Street in Lexington, was stopped by Franklin County Sheriff's officers Oct. 11, his indictment said.

According to prosecutors, Jackson, who they said was under the influence of alcohol and had an open Bud Light Lime in his car, handed a driver's license belonging to an unidentified female to Deputy Rick Rogers.

Jackson, who according to Commonwealth's Attorney Larry Cleveland was wearing a dress and makeup when he was stopped, is charged with felonies of operating on a DUI suspended license and a DUI fourth offense.

He is also charged with several moving violations and displaying a cancelled or fictitious operator's license, a misdemeanor.

A Frankfort man was also indicted by the Franklin County grand jury Wednesday for leading police in a high-speed chase that exceeded 100 mph.

Zachary T. Abbott, 20, 220 Tupelo Trail #55, is charged with two counts of first-degree wanton endangerment and first-degree fleeing or evading police.

Cleveland said police approached Abbott's vehicle Nov. 11 when he was parked behind a vacant apartment complex.

Abbott fled, Cleveland said, because he is on probation for another offense and was driving with a suspended license.

The chase reached speeds of 100 mph or more, Cleveland said, before Abbott eventually wrecked, bailed out and attempted to flee on foot before being apprehended by sheriff's deputies.

Other indictments include:

>John D. Alstatt, 53, who is being held at the Green River Correctional Complex in Central City, for second-degree escape and being a persistent felony offender.

>James Michael Keith, 31, 15 Blackburn Ave., for theft by failure to make required disposition of property and theft by deception.

51.	Posted by BrookeCD December 8, 2008
	What worries me most about this article is that had it been one of the hundreds of other DUI arrests made in Frankfort each year it would have gotten little attention in the SJ, and surely not the front page bold headline it received. This person was arrested for DUI, etc... and rightly so. He is a danger to the community and to himself. However, I cannot help but think that the SJ wouldn't run a headline such as "DUI Arrest Made" for a regular DUI involving a man in regular man's attire. I am a crossdresser and yes I do go out in and around Frankfort from time to time "en femme." I don't drive under the influence and rarely drink even in boy mode. I can't help but wonder what would be the SJ headline if I was given a speeding ticket or other kind of minor citation? Once again, very disappointed in the SJ...

49.	Posted by Luanne December 5, 2008
	letsjet, thank you for explaining the legal issue to me. Tyler, I am not new here, jsut new to you all. I lurked because since I do not live there I did not feel like I was part of the community. Posters like you and smartgirl and too many others to name made me feel like I could voice an opinion. I am not a "sue" person. I only brought it up for the same reason you assumed I did. Many people are jsut looking for a lawsuit. One of my classes has spent a semester teaching me to think out of the box.( or something like that) Hopefully I will be back to normal by next semester. (wink) I am sure the class was to make me well rounded, but it make me feel like a far left liberal, which I am not.( no offence to any far lefties out there) On the other hand, I do take more information before judging things now. That must be a good thing. I did speak to a local police officer today that I bumped in to at a store. He told me that with the license and the attire, it was on a higher level than if he had jsut had a fake license. It was almost on par with having a fake badge and saying he was an officer. Top that with the open container, Oklahoma would have had him eating bologna sandwiches for months. The third DUI, I hope I told that part correctly, will most likely be jail time too. The biggest difference here is that most likely he would have a troublesome jail life. He said that since he did not know how KY inmates felt about cross dressers, he could not comment on that. Neither could I. When I was at Transy and K. State in the late '70's, Eastern KY University was voted best gay college by a gay gruop. It was also voted one of the best party colleges by Playboy. Since mocving here, I have learned that people in the Frankfort/ Lexington area were more open minded. But here in the heartland, it is a common sense mentality, and that is okay too. Love and miss Frankfort, yet I am comfortable here in Oklahoma.