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The Whitley County Sheriff’s Department had a busy month of April. During the month of April, sheriff’s deputies answered 1,328 criminal complaints and responded to 34 motor vehicle collisions. The sheriff’s department also investigated 39 new criminal cases, and made 35 criminal...

The Southeast Kentucky Regional Special Response Team was activated early Sunday morning to apprehend a wanted Tennessee fugitive, who was in Williamsburg. Jason Veach is charged with being a fugitive from Tennessee. The Williamsburg Police Department and Whitley County Sheriff’s...

Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies seized one kilogram of methamphetamine Sunday that they say was targeted to be distributed in Whitley and Laurel counties, arresting four people in the process. Whitney Phelps, 21, of Corbin, Jerry Wayne Caldwell, 47, of Lily, Jerrica Combs, 28,...

Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies seized one kilogram of methamphetamine Sunday that they say was targeted to be distributed in Whitley and Laurel counties. According to officials with the sheriff’s department, the drugs were located in a Chevrolet pickup truck that was stopped...

A Tennessee woman is facing a robbery charge in connection with a shoplifting incident at a Whitley County Dollar General that turned physical. Corbin Police arrested Latoya D. Dople, 34, on a warrant stemming from the Jan. 15 incident charging her with second-degree robbery....

A Corbin man, who was arrested Saturday night when Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a complaint of an intoxicated individual running around, naked, has pleaded guilty to charges of indecent exposure and DUI and will spend another 28 days in jail. Read this story and...

The Whitley County Sheriff’s Department had a busy month of March. During the month of March, sheriff’s deputies answered 1,137 criminal complaints and responded to 29 motor vehicle collisions. The sheriff’s department also investigated 20 new criminal cases, and made 88 criminal...

A traffic stop for driving in reverse on a road in Corbin Monday night, resulted in the driver being arrested for felony DUI and trafficking in methamphetamine. Dale A. Madden, 39, of Corbin, was arrested at approximately 8:30 p.m. after Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies...

Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies say a Lily man was under the influence of alcohol when he got into a fight with family members, and then kicked the deputy who tried to place him under arrest early Sunday morning in Corbin. Jeremiah Scott Poynter, 21, is facing charges of...

A Williamsburg man admitted to stabbing another man in the neck with a pocket knife Thursday night, but told Whitley County Sheriff’s deputies it was self-defense. Matthew N. Goins, 31, is facing one count of first-degree assault in connection with the incident on Chester Goins...