Past and current Franklin County Jailers, from left, Ted Hammermeister, Rick Rogers and Jake Banta talk with Lt. Ashley Mulder during a retirement party for Rogers and swearing-in for Banta. Mulder, the granddaughter of Hammermeister, was also promoted to lieutenant. (Photo courtesy of Frank…
The following calls were received by the Frankfort Police Department, Frankfort Fire and EMS and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday:
A Frankfort man accused in a domestic violence incident will be the first in the county prosecuted under Kentucky’s new strangulation law.
Franklin County Jailer Rick Rogers said Friday that he will retire Sept. 1, less than a year into his second term.
Frankfort police have launched a separate investigation into whether the alleged use of a police gas card to fuel an officer’s personal vehicle warrants criminal charges, according to city documents.
A jail visitation and a car containing methamphetamine ended with the arrests of two Frankfort residents and a seizure of about 80 grams of the narcotic over the weekend, according to police reports.
The Frankfort Police Department and several community partners are joining together to bring a fun-filled night out to families in Franklin County.
A former Franklin County Regional Jail (FCRJ) inmate has filed a lawsuit against Franklin County and several jail personnel in connection with an alleged sexual assault by a guard while she was incarcerated, according to court records.
The following calls were received by the Frankfort Police Department, Frankfort Fire and EMS and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday:
The following calls were received by the Frankfort Police Department, Frankfort Fire and EMS and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday:
The following calls were received by the Frankfort Police Department, Frankfort Fire and EMS and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on Monday:
The following calls were received by the Frankfort Police Department, Frankfort Fire and EMS and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office over the weekend:
In the high-stakes world of criminal justice, an impartial eyewitness is invaluable.
A year ago, gunshots rang out inside an Alexander Street home amid an alleged robbery, taking the lives of two men.
A Franklin County man faces felony charges after he allegedly rammed a Walmart employee with a shopping cart during a theft attempt, then presented officers with homemade identification.
The following calls were received by the Frankfort Police Department, Frankfort Fire and EMS and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office over the weekend:
The following people were indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in Franklin County Circuit Court:
The following people entered pleas Friday in Franklin County Circuit Court:
The following people were sentenced Friday in Franklin County Circuit Court:
Almost 20 years to the day that he started working with the Frankfort Police Department, Chuck Adams stood before a crowd of officers Thursday and had his wife, Becky, pin the badge of "Chief" upon his chest.
No one was injured or inside a residence on Grant Street when it caught fire Wednesday night.
The following calls were received by the Frankfort Police Department, Frankfort Fire and EMS and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday:
Frankfort city commissioners could select the city’s next top cop this week, officials said.
The following calls were received by the Frankfort Police Department, Frankfort Fire and EMS and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on Monday:
The following calls were received by the Frankfort Police Department, Frankfort Fire and EMS and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office over the weekend:
After a plea deal in the case of an alleged drug robbery turned double homicide fell through Friday, Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate left the bench to personally break up quarreling families in the hallway of the Franklin County Courthouse.
This story was updated at 2:52 p.m. Friday with the suspect's name and charges against him.
Two Frankfort brothers and a woman could be facing decades — and possibly life — in prison after a traffic stop yielded large quantities of deadly opioids along with other narcotics.
The following calls were received by the Frankfort Police Department, Frankfort Fire and EMS and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday:
At one point, the only tablets allowed in jail would have been to cure a headache.
It’s part of a program provided by Thorn Hill Learning Center, 700 Leslie Ave., to give jail inmates a chance to complete their high school education. And this academic year, the non-profit set a record with 35 graduates from FCRJ alone, according to figures provided by the learning center.
The following calls were received by the Frankfort Police Department, Frankfort Fire and EMS and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday:
A mother accused of raising three small children in a house littered with trash, insects and feces has been arrested, court records show.
The following calls were received by the Frankfort Police Department, Frankfort Fire and EMS and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on Monday:
The Franklin County Farmers Market is searching for a few dozen helpers to launch this year’s South Frankfort Food Share, a community-driven cooperative food-buying program that allows folks to purchase fresh, local vegetables on a sliding scale, on June 18.
Police are seeking charges against an unidentified man after a heated Memorial Day argument on the river led to him allegedly firing a rescue flare at a boat full of people, officers reported.
A Franklin County man indicted last month for an alleged domestic incident has also been charged with sending harassing messages to an ex-girlfriend and faces more than a hundred charges in the case, according to court records.
The following calls were received by the Frankfort Police Department, Frankfort Fire and EMS and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office over the Memorial Day weekend:
By Charlie Baglan
The following calls were received by the Frankfort Police Department, Frankfort Fire and EMS and the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday:
Jones had previously asked that the court dismiss her indictment, claiming she was defending herself at the time of the fatal stabbing. Jones claimed that Morris had put a $5,000 bounty “on her head” on Snapchat, a social media app, and she feared for her life. However, the court relied on eyewitness testimony that an argument leading up to the stabbing had nothing to do with a bounty, court records stated.
