Police and courts in the Lexington, Ky., area
Lexington’s famous town drunk, Henry Earl, made Keith Olbermann’s oddball countdown Thursday night. The pundit dubbed Earl, 58, the “Babe Ruth of getting arrested” for the reported 1,333 times he has been arrested. (Henry is after this story about a Sarah Palin corn maze in Ohio.)
Below the fold is the definitive Henry Earl story that was published in the Herald-Leader on Dec. 19, 2005
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By Brandon Ortiz
bortiz@herald-leader.com
A Fayette County grand jury has indicted a Lexington man on 44 charges of sodomy and child pornography.
David M. Allen has been indicted on 44 charges of sodomy and child pornography.
David M. Allen, 36, is charged with six counts of sodomizing a child under the age of 12, 31 counts of using a minor in a sexual performance (either illicitly filming or photographing a minor), six counts of first-degree sex abuse and one count of possessing matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor.
The indictment was made public Wednesday.
Allen, who works for an electrical contractor in Lexington, is being held in the Fayette County Detention Center on $405,000 bond. He will be arraigned Thursday in Fayette Circuit Court.
According to the indictment, Allen sodomized a child on six occasions from March to May 2008. The accusations that he filmed or photographed minors date back to December 2006.
Fayette Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Larson declined to comment on the case because it is still pending. Court records did not indicate how he knew the children.
According to a police report, Allen agreed in June to allow police to search his computer. Police said they found images that were suspected to be child pornography.
“The subject stated he had more child pornography on other media,” the police report states.
A former corrections officer at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington was sentenced Tuesday by a federal judge to six months in prison and ordered to perform 180 hours of community service for sexually abusing an inmate under his ward.
Hector Antonio Abelar, 28, of Nicholasville, pleaded guilty in May to charges that he repeatedly had sex with a ward from January to May 2007, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Lexington. Abelar will be required to register as a sex offender.
Abelar will be eligible for parole after serving 85 percent of his sentence.
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