A Perry County man was arrested on numerous charges recently after he allegedly stole a pickup truck and drove away in it until the owner, who had stowed away in
Last week, after multiple overdose deaths in Hazard, officials with the Hazard Police Department announced they had begun working a large scale drug investigation along with the Drug Enforcement Agency and other law enforcement agencies. The investigation, said HPD, is ongoing, and some arrests are expected to be made in connection to the controlled substances.
âWe started getting notifications on Wednesday (March 3) afternoon of people that had overdosed, and a majority of them somebody was able to call and somebody was able to respond to it and administer Narcan,â said HPD Chief Minor Allen. âSeveral were transported to ARH.â
The overdoses, said Allen, continued into early morning on Thursday, March 4, when HPD received a call in Gorman Hollow claiming that there were three suspected overdoses in one apartment with a fourth individual needing medical assistance. Upon arrival, said HPD officials, three individuals were found to be dead and the fourth individual