A former Kentucky State Police trooper has been sentenced to prison following an assault during a traffic stop gone bad.
The Kentucky Attorney General’s Office said 28-year-old Haydon Kilbourne, a former trooper who worked out of Post 5 in Campbellsburg, pled guilty in a Carroll County courtroom to second-degree assault (a class C felony) and third-degree terroristic threatening.
He was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison, according to the attorney general’s office.
“According to charges filed in Carroll County Circuit Court, Kilbourne used his police baton to cause physical injury to a man following a 2023 traffic stop. He also threatened to kill the man prior to the assault,” the attorney general’s office said in a press release.
In addition to a prison sentence, Kilbourne agreed not to seek probation or shock probation. He also agreed to relinquish his law enforcement credentials and to not seek future employment with a police agency.
“‘Backing the Blue’ means giving our colleagues in law enforcement the benefit of the doubt. However, when someone charged with enforcing the law breaks it, it’s our responsibility to hold them fully accountable,” Attorney General Russell Coleman said.
Kentucky State Police investigated the case. The Attorney General’s Executive Director of the Special Prosecutions Unit Tim Cocanougher and Assistant Attorney General Amanda Morgan prosecuted the case on behalf of the commonwealth.
Kilbourne is originally from London. He graduated from the Kentucky State Police Training Academy in January 2021.
(Photo: Haydon Kilbourne, courtesy of the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
