crime in macon county
Convicted Felon on Probation Arrested During Traffic Stop
By Jessie Williams A May 21 traffic stop ended with the arrest of a convicted felon from Scottsville, Kentucky. According to a report filed by Macon County Deputy Jacob Lopata, the officer was parked stationary at D&G Tire around 8:18 pm when he observed a white Chevy Silverado with a non-functioning tail light. The officer…
Read MoreChild Pornography Found on Man’s Cell Phone
By Jessie Williams A Macon County man was arrested last week after child pornography was extracted from his cell phone by Secret Service agents. Events leading up to the arrest began on Friday. April 19, when a sex offender compliance check was performed at a Maple Lane residence in Westmoreland. Living at the residence were…
Read MoreArson Suspect Says God Told Her to Start Fire
By Jessie Williams A Hartsville woman arrested for arson and burglary, told law enforcement it was God who told her to start a fire that caused significant damage to a Howell Road residence. According to the report filed by Detective Byron Butcher of the Macon County Sheriff’s Department, 29-year-old Savannah Brook Rhodes entered the uninhabited…
Read MoreMan Exposes Himself to Juveniles in Parking Lot
By Jessie Williams Twenty-nine-year-old Cody Dewayne Chastain, of Westmoreland, was charged with indecent exposure and two counts of soliciting sexual exploitation of a minor after exposing himself to a woman and two female juveniles. According to a report filed by Detective Jeff Hix of the Lafayette Police Department, Chastain was sitting inside his vehicle in…
Read MoreSon Charged in Arson of Disabled Father’s Home
By Jessie Williams A Lafayette man has been charged with arson after allegedly starting a fire in the crawl space of his disabled father’s home in 2023. According to the affidavit of complaint filed by Macon County Detective Byron Butcher, 30-year-old Troy ‘Hayden’ White intentionally started the fire underneath his father’s home on July 15,…
Read MoreMan Arrested for Theft & Scrapping of Vehicles
By Jessie Williams A suspect was interviewed and arrested after five vehicles were stolen from a woman and her father at a residence on Skillet Creek Road. The woman told law enforcement the property had been broken into and the titles to the five vehicles, kept inside the house, were gone. During the course of…
Read MoreSex Offender Caught with Child Pornography
By Jessie Williams A 59-year old Westmoreland man was arrested last week during an ongoing sex offender compliance check being conducted by local law enforcement. According to a report filed by Macon County Detective Robert Jacoby, Deputy Tim Freeman arrived at the Maple Lane residence of sex offender Paul Price on April 19, 2024. The…
Read MoreSex Offenders Arrested in Operation Overwatch
By Jessie Williams The TBI and the United States Marshals Service assisted the Macon County Sheriff’s Office and Lafayette Police Department with a sex offender compliance operation on April 9 & 10, dubbed ‘Operation Overwatch.’ Out of 41 offenders contacted by law enforcement, 27 were found to be in compliance. Thirteen were found to…
Read MoreWanted Man Caught With Drugs, $100,000 Bond
By Jessie Williams A wanted 28-year-old Bethpage man was arrested on drug charges by Macon County law enforcement last week and given a bond of $100,000. According to the affidavit of complaint filed by Sergeant Clinton Friar, he was on patrol during the early morning hours of April 1, 2024, when he observed a vehicle…
Read MoreLafayette Man Charged With Continuous Sexual Abuse of Child
By Jessie Williams The family of a juvenile female reported 63-year-old Charles Anthony West to local law enforcement on February 17, 2024 for the continuous sexual abuse of a child over the course of at least three years. According to the affidavit of complaint filed by Detective Robert Jacoby of the Macon County Sheriff’s Department,…
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