District Court
Sept. 21
Sarah Hays Spedding, judge
Traffic
Speeding – Traffic school (DSK, STS, CATS): Yara Alvarez; Sylvia Noren-Baker; Maizei Bassett; Tyler Cox; Keith Dziki; Kelli Firquin; Isaac Fluharty; Hannah Gregory; Kristine McNiel; Emanuel Agustin; Fabrice Murengezi; Tracie Tyree;Tytus Weldon; Samantha White; Jonathan Younger; Alexandra Alcorn; Ella Anderson; Jose Escamilla; Jordan Bryson, with no insurance, $100; Iliana Carino; Isiah Carter; Kenneth Chatman; Hailey Cleveland; Mason Evins, with no insurance, $100; Sylejmani Loris; Ilerioluwase Oyedele; Amanda Pettit; Lindsee Rison; Dezarey Wright, with no insurance, $100. Alive at 25: Dylan Bowers; Mikah Green; Claire Hart; Jacob Kernodle; Decoreya LaBree, with reckless driving, $100 and completed 40 hours of community service; Conrado Morales; Reonna Morgan; Kieran Wafford. Remaining speeding guilties: Faustin Hitimana, $36; Kelly Holland, $30; Jose Chitay, with no license and no insurance, $1,246; Jacob Bishop, $55; Fernando Martinez, with no license, $138; Austin Satterly, $100.
D.U.I. – Angel Sanchez-Soto, $350/four to six months license suspension/alcohol education; Shanay Simmons, $200/four to six months license suspension/alcohol education; Dorothy Smith, $200/four to six months license suspension/alcohol education.
Reckless driving – Colby Hoover, $100; Eli Rall, with illegal passing, Alive at 25; William Sharpe, with disregard stop light, $100 and STS; Joseph Stewart, with speeding, $20 and STS; Francis Cox, with speeding and possession of open alcohol container, $300.
Careless driving – James Ledridge, Alive at 25; Holly Steiskal, $100.
Disregard stop light – Ruth Dismuke, $20; Mao-Montez Purnell, with no insurance, $525.
Disregard stop sign – Lori Poole, STS; Allen Smith, STS; Logan Psak, Alive at 25.
No seat belt – Chanda Back, $25; Justin Skaggs, with no insurance, $125.
No license – Belman Perez, $100.
No license in possession – Billy Bidwell, $50; Gary Holman, $50;
No insurance – Jaiden-Xavion Crawford, $500.
I.C.E. Holder (This is an order or request by the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement to keep the person in custody until I.C.E. can take custody of that person). – Jorge Orozco, being held on an I.C.E. detainer at Woodford County Detention Center after pleading guilty to D.U.I. and no license, sentenced concurrently to 30 days in jail, costs and fines waived.
Misdemeanors
Stanley Taylor – violation of a Kentucky Domestic Violence Order, terroristic threatening, menacing, criminal mischief, resisting arrest, and alcohol intoxication in a public place, 12 months/serve 106 days in jail/balance probated on condition of no new offenses for two years, and an additional 27 days for obstructing an officer, terroristic threatening, and menacing.
William Pendergrass – possession of a controlled substance, 90 days in jail.
Glenn Covington IV – domestic assault with minor injury, time served – days in jail not stated on docket, no other conditions.
Joshua Rector (Sept. 18, Jail Docket, before District Judge Bolton Bevin II) – operating on a suspended license and possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, 90 days in jail, D.U.I. of a controlled substance, 14 days in jail.
Police Reports
Versailles police investigated 9 non-injury and 7 injury vehicle collisions, made 7 arrests, had 544 calls for service, and made 67 traffic stops and enforcements from Sept. 6 to 12, 2026. They also provided full law enforcement coverage for the entirety of the weekend’s Fall Festival in Midway.
Fire Reports
City
The Versailles Fire Department made 4 EMS calls, conducted 11 fire inspections, responded to one vehicle collision, installed one car seat, and to one alarm from Sept. 14 to 20, 2026.
On Sept. 15, firefighters responded to a gas leak on Marsailles Road.
On Sept. 16, they responded to a trash fire on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard.
On Sept. 17, they conducted an odor investigation on Marsailles Road.
On Sept. 18, they responded to an electrical hazard caused by a short circuit on Elm Street.
County
The Woodford County Fire Department made 8 EMS calls, installed one smoke detector, responded to two alarms (one false), provided assistance to the Versailles Fire Department on one call, and responded to five vehicle collisions (one fatal, and two injury) from Sept. 14 to 20, 2026. They also provided assistance all weekend at the Midway Fall Festival on Sept. 19 and 20.
On Sept. 14, firefighters conducted a controlled burn investigation on Scott’s Ferry Road, a vehicle fire on the Leestown Pike, and a grass fire on Tyrone Pike.
On Sept. 16, they provided a lift assist on Regent Court.
Public Records
Suits
Velocity Investments, LLC v. Jennifer Eversole – action on agreement for $7,256.74.
James Evans v. Kroger Limited Partnership I – action for personal injury damages from slip and fall, transferred from Fayette County.
Verst Group Logistics, Inc et al v. Hillsboro Transportation Co. et al – subrogation claim from vehicle accident.
Kentucky Guardianship Administrators, LLC v. Kentucky Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance – claim for PIP benefits.
Capital One, NA v. Anthony Montgomery – action on account for $9,606.26.
Fifth Third Bank, NA v. Suzanne Mathis – action on note for $37,588.90.
Kentucky Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. v. Kafila Bulimwengu – subrogation claim from vehicle accident for $37,890.07.
Citibank, NA v. Sanjay Jeyarajasingha – action on account for $10,493.07.
In the interests of E.C. & J.C. v. Tristan Mozer – action for custody.
Commonwealth of Kentucky v. Carlos Escobar – action for child support.
Synchrony Bank v. Norwood Martinez – action on account for $5,784.03.
Leandra Crawford v. Lakeshore Learning Materials, LLC – employment action for reinstatement and damages based on alleged disability discrimination.
Editor’s note: civil suits when filed are allegations, nothing has been proven, and only tell the side of the plaintiff, the person bringing the lawsuit. At time of reporting, the Defendant in the lawsuit has not responded with their side.
Deeds
Falin M. McKenzie and Matthew Wright to Samuel D. Cooper, 331 Lexington Street, $405,500.
Jordan Martindale to Jordan Martindale and Ariel Martindale, 4020 Greentree Road, $1 and other consideration, quitclaim deed.
Barbee L. Thompson to Ronald Oscar Williams, 3276 Mundys Landing Road, $395,000.
Terry L. Wilder and Mary Jane Wilder to Terry L. Wilder and Mary Jane Wilder, as co-trustees of the Life Goes On Living Trust, .582 acre on Bluegrass Road, other consideration.
Isaiah House, Inc. (Mike Cox, COO) to Ethan D. Goodrum, 502A Tecumseh Trail, $210,000.
Ball Homes, LLC to Gina Crews, 758 Hampshire Drive, $344,391.
John D. Stratton and Melody Lynne Stratton to John Bradley Stratton and Megumi Watanabe Stratton, 2860 Delaney Ferry Road, $350,000.
Maryjean Wall to Jonathan Lee Kattus and Catherine Kattus, 183 Woodlark Road, $345,000.
Ball Homes, LLC to Clark Alan Fish and Kylie Morgan Fish, 105 Gainsborough Lane, $356,398.
Pamela Craig, as executor of the Martha Laverne Pittman estate, to HNR Farm Annex, LLC (Richard Northhaft, manager), 23.575 acres at 1116 Hedden Road, $995,000.
Rita Hartley Jones and Brian Edward Jones to Cody Stover and Adreyonna Stover, 35.35 acres at 656 Edgar Lane, $405,698.
Ball Homes, LLC to Margaret Noel Lambert Riley, 3061 Rosewood Drive, $723,441.
Albert Lawrence Mason to Alexandra W. Kinkead, 250 Morgan Street, other consideration.
Marriage Licenses
Octavia Cherie Wilson and Donald Ray McKinney; Shawna Suzanne Comer and Robert Eric Leitch.