Tow Truck

WINCHESTER POLICE Charged - James Miller, 24, of 478 Ritz Court, was charged Wednesday with receiving stolen property over $300. - Chasity Tays, 33, of 107 E. Lexington Ave., was charged Wednesday with failure to appear. - William S. Tays, 39, of 107 E. Lexington Ave., was charged Wednesday with failure to appear. - Ernest C. Campbell, 52, of 525 N. Main St. Apt. 10, was charged Wednesday with failure to appear. - William B. Yeaples, 36, of Paris, was charged today with careless driving and driving under the influence of intoxicants.

It was about 7 one recent morning, and a young customer came to the counter at Chills Quick Stop on Lexington Road. He wanted to buy a soft drink. He also wanted to make a complaint, albeit a good-natured one. "It's hard to find a parking space out there with all the coffee drinkers jamming the lot," he told cashier Elaine Rainey. "Sometimes I want to call a tow truck. " Rainey laughed and then made a bee-line to the back of the store where about a half dozen customers were gathered around three tables.

Editor's note: Taken from the Danville 911 records, the Police Blotter represents a history of the initial calls and the information used by the dispatcher to send officers to investigate complaints. It is not necessarily an indication of what the officer found upon arrival at the scene, or of how the complaint may have been dealt with. OCTOBER 11 12:24 a.m., a suspicious male is walking around the 911 center on South Fourth Street; subject's vehicle had broken down near Sears and he was walking to Highland Court.

Officials say the weather is to blame for the death of a Jessamine County woman early Saturday morning. Crystal Cook, 32, of Nicholasville, died after driving her 1985 Nissan pickup into high waters on Little Hickman Road, near Brumfield Road in northern Jessamine County. According to Jessamine County Coroner Bobbye Ballard, the cause of death was drowning. Cook's two male passengers, Ricky Welch and Jason Smith, managed to exit the upside-down truck and get to safety after the crash that occurred around 12:30 a.m., said Capt.

Mother Nature combines with humans to throw all kinds of road hazards at drivers, but Ben Sparks ran into a rare one New Year's Eve. The Tuggle Road resident has been driving a NAPA semi on the interstates of America for 36 years, the last 17 with his wife, Ruby, serving as copilot. The past two years, they've been leaving their home every Tuesday for a NAPA distribution center in Indianapolis, where they pick up their company truck and head for the west coast. After deliveries and the return trip, it's usually Saturday before they're back in their own beds.

Tow truck driver Troy Gerlach, 49, pulled up to a stranded sedan on Wednesday, puffed out his white-whiskered cheeks and chuckled. “Do you see that?” he asked, grinning. “The keys are locked in. The car’s running, and it’s in reverse. That’s a good un’.” Gerlach, a 21-year veteran at Allen’s Service and Towing on East Lexington Avenue, has seen everything from a van lodged inside a building to a pickup truck inches from entering a creek.

HARRODSBURG - The owner of a Mercer County wrecker service was killed Wednesday afternoon while he worked on a truck at his home. Mercer County Coroner Sonny Ransdell said Eddie Goodlett, 48, was at his Chinn Lane home working on a rollback truck when the accident occurred. "He had a rollback braced so that he could repair a track underneath," Ransdell said. "The rollback slipped off of the brace and pinned him by the chest. " Goodlett, who owned Goodlett's Wrecker Service in Harrodsburg, was pronounced dead at 5:19 p.m. Ransdell said that the cause of death was traumatic compressive asphyxiation.

Espie Lee Traylor, 56, formerly of Garrard County, passed away at his home in Jessamine County on Monday, Dec. 20, after an extended illness. "Stubby," as he was affectionately known, was born Jan. 10, 1955 in Bourbon County. He was a son of the late Earl and Genevieve Rust. Also preceding him in death were his older brother, Billy Traylor, and an infant granddaughter, Tiffany Ross. Mr. Traylor was a former tow truck driver for Bluegrass Towing in Lexington. He was a motorcycle enthusiast and an avid outdoorsman.