Sheriff's order destroys home

[Renew Deal]

This is old, but somehow missed by DU. It's a crazy story.

CARLISLE — There's little undisputed in this story, the tale of the tipped trailer.

Frances Barton's single-wide, the one she had fully paid $5,000 for and was hoping to move to a little piece of land she was buying on a $250-a-month land contract, is now literally in pieces on Jim Gaunce's front lawn.

And, everyone agrees, that leaves some 12 people — four adults and eight children ranging from 3 months to 12 years — facing Thanksgiving with no place to live.

How, exactly, the mobile home came to this odd resting place is where the story gets complicated. On Friday, Barton hired a guy to put her house on a trailer and move it up U.S. 68 in Nicholas County. When the trailer broke down and the house blocked the highway for hours on end, the sheriff got involved.
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http://www.kentucky.com/2008/11/19/597604/sheriffs-order-destroys-home.html

[CBGLuthier]

1. This wasn't missed. I remember it well. But here is something new

http://www.kentucky.com/2010/10/20/1486834/despite-indictment-nicholas-county.html

Nicholas County Sheriff Dick Garrett said Tuesday he does not intend to step down in the wake of his indictment this week on two felony counts.
On Monday, a Nicholas County grand jury indicted Garrett on one count of theft by deception and one count of abuse of public trust, said Kathryn Hendrickson of Maysville, the special prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury.


That's the asshole who wrecked it.

[Renew Deal]

3. Thanks for that.

It looks like the indictments are over something else. It also says he's a Democrat. :banghead:

[RKP5637]

2. Recommend!!! n/t