The Associated Press
COVINGTON — A former jail guard trainee who falsely arrested a man in a northern Kentucky bar has avoided going to jail.
The Kentucky Enquirer reported 26-year-old Melanie Murray has been given three years of diversion and fined $250.
Murray pleaded guilty to impersonating a peace officer, unlawful imprisonment and terroristic threatening.
Prosecutors said Murray was being trained as a Kenton County Jail guard and did not have arrest powers when she handcuffed a 22-year-old man in a bar in April, took him into an alley, then became ill.
The man was able to get Murray’s keys and free himself, then called police.
Officers found Murray passed out in the alley.
My kind of girl, drunk with handcuffs, got a phone number