The Associated Press
LYNCH — An eastern Kentucky police chief has been arrested and charged with assault, alcohol intoxication and disorderly conduct.
The Harlan Daily Enterprise reports that officers in Cumberland arrested Lynch Police Chief James Miller Monday morning.
Police say they found Miller intoxicated and his wife with bruises on her neck and a cut on her elbow. A police report says Miller would not calm down.
Miller was arrested and taken to the Harlan County Detention Center on a $200 cash bond. He was released the same day.
Miller has served as police chief since August 2008. He was promoted after former chief Taylor Hall was hired by the Cumberland Police Department.
Miller declined to comment to the paper.
Let’s see, he’s accused of beating his wife, being a drunk, and not cooperating with the police. This is suppose to be an Outstanding citizen of the city. There to Serve and Protect! But he gets out the Same day on $200, Wow! If this doesn’t show everyone what politics is all about, nothing will. If it was common Joe then his bond would be $2,000 and would have had to wait until at least the next today to make bond if he could. Sad-Sad!!!
Very mislaeding headline…made to sound like the police chief from EKU arrested.
“An eastern Kentucky police chief has been arrested and charged with assault, alcohol intoxication and disorderly conduct…Police say they found Miller intoxicated and his wife with bruises on her neck and a cut on her elbow. A police report says Miller would not calm down. Miller was arrested and taken to the Harlan County Detention Center on a $200 cash bond. He was released the same day. Miller has served as police chief since August 2008. He was promoted after former chief Taylor Hall was hired by the Cumberland Police Department.”
Yep drinking will do this to people, so can mind altering drugs, but what is different about this man than any other? Is it because he is the police cheif and under his watch many other men have probably been locked up or mentally treated for this kind of thing? Not sure of that so please don’t qoute me any place besides here, but I do believe it. Police are only human beings no more and no less, some of them want the right things in life to happen, if they only knew for sure what those things were? Some of them don’t care, and some of them are just plain corrupt, people think they are good and they have power so they think they can get away with anything, and pretty much they can?
I do believe the lead headline is very mis-leading if a person had not already known about the story. As it is presented in this article, a reader could construe it to mean the Chief involved was the Chief of Police for Eastern Kentucky University, not Lynch, KY as is the actual case.
As to the issue at hand, no one, including members of any police department is immune from this sort of stuff. Anyone can have problems, the single biggest issue is that a person in this situation can have a weapon and that weapon could be used. There was an occurance of this type that happened in Tacoma, WA several years ago when the Chief of Police there, shot and killed his wife IN FRONT of their two small children in a shopping center parking lot.
There had been LOTS of warning signs prior to the incident, but no one picked up on them or if they did, they did not act on them.