A Hopkinsville man was charged Wednesday with assaulting a police officer and drug possession following a traffic stop.
Kenneth Randolph, 38, was charged with driving on a suspended DUI license, changing drivers while a car was in motion, third-degree assault of a police officer or probation officer, resisting arrest, buying or possessing drug paraphernalia, possession of synthetic drugs and also arrested on an active warrant.
Around 3 p.m. Wednesday, detectives with the Hopkins County Vice and Narcotics Unit observed a white van occupied with three people traveling south on I-69 approaching exit 111.
The van crossed the white fog line multiple times and then entered back into the lane, according to the police report. At that time, detectives initiated lights and siren to conduct a traffic stop near exit 111, but the vehicle did not stop and continued through an intersection traveling east on White City Road.