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.

31.	Posted by smartgirl December 4, 2008
	Luanne, I'm not as young as you may think. I get on here having a good time, my guess is none of of us are as young as you think. My husband is only a few years younger than you, however I am quite a bit younger than he is. I wish you and your family the best. I am not from Frankfort, but I do call it home now. Well, it couldn't be slander, since that would require making statements known to be false. I really doubt he would have a case. But who knows, I am not a lawyer.

30.	Posted by Luanne December 4, 2008
	Smartgirl, I was only pondering. The story seemed to have too much information. Alas, I am a 51 year old student and will do my nursing here in OK unless we decide to come home after our daughters finish school. My minor is history and I would like to retire in Frankfort and work at the historical soc. Smartgirl, I really enjoy you and your friends banter. I often wonder if I know any of your parents. I had a friend in school named Stacey and Frank makes me wonder if he's related to her. I come here to keep up and I still get homesick for Frankfort. My local paper does not have blogging and when I chided them about a smaller town paper like Frankfort's having this, they blew me off. LOL! The Sooner I come home...that was great. Thanks. I was jsut wondering if it was slanderour to say what he was wearing. If you were pulled over for a DUI would the SJ state what outfit you had on? Though I am not "sue crazy", many are and this guy might have a case if he did not already have too much against him for the various laws he has broken this time.

27.	Posted by Luanne December 4, 2008
	And to think I am on my third revision of a term paper and I have no intention of ever being a writer. LOL! My paper would be a better article information wise. Question to any legal beagles out there: I know this is public record, at least the DUI part, but is some of this information slanderous to the man? Also, if it was a holloween arrest and he was in costume as a woman, and he had a male license, would this still be the same kind of story? Since his license was suspended, did he dress to match the illegal license he had? Is this a test SJ?