A Leitchfield man was arrested after running from and fighting with police.
Saturday night at approximately 7:30, Leitchfield Police Officers Brian Jennings, Wally Ritter and Ty Whitaker and Grayson County Sgt Jordan Jones responded to Parkway Villa Apartments (also known as Penner Apartments) at 101 Penner Drive on the report of an intoxicated male “acting disorderly and attempting to fight other individuals,” according to the arrest citation.
Upon police arriving at the scene, the suspect, 34-year-old Michael D. Embry, ran north on South English Street where he, the citation states, “unlawfully entered an abandoned residence.”
Embry held the door to the residence shut as police attempted to enter. Officers, though, eventually made entry and attempted to arrest Embry. He refused commands and was physically taken to the ground.
Embry, police said, was “manifestly under the influence of alcoholic beverages,” as he displayed “slurred, incoherent speech” and had “extreme difficulty” walking and “an inability to maintain a consistent train of thought …”
Embry, after being arrested, volunteered to police that “he would have substances including methamphetamine and marijuana in his system,” because, the suspect said, “I use meth and weed.”
He was transported to Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center where he threatened to kill a nurse and told Whitaker that he would “choke (him) out,” according to the citation. Embry also told Ritter that “he would stick it through (his) neck.”
Embry was lodged in the Grayson County Detention Center where he was charged with fleeing or evading police (on foot), resisting arrest, third-degree terroristic threatening, second-degree criminal trespassing, second-degree disorderly conduct, public intoxication – controlled substance, and alcohol intoxication in a public place. He additionally faces a burglary charge.
This isn’t Embry’s first run-in with law, according to online records, as he was arrested in September 2021 in Breckinridge County and charged with possession of methamphetamine, and in March 2020 in Grayson County where he was charged with fleeing or evading police (on foot) and resisting arrest.
(Photo: Michael D. Embry mugshot from a 2021 arrest for failure to appear)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
