Man dies as result of Cemetery Road crash

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

A 34-year-old Bowling Green man died at The Medical Center on Monday after a car crash just before 10 a.m. in the 6900 block of Cemetery Road.

Jeffrey Settles was driving west on Cemetery Road when his vehicle went off the right shoulder, according to a Warren County Sheriffs Department report.

Settles then over-corrected, causing his vehicle to leave the roads left side and overturn. Settles was thrown from the vehicle. It is unknown whether Settles was wearing a seat belt, according to the accident report.

Arrest A Glasgow man turned himself in to the Barren County Sheriffs Department after a fight with another man on Roseville Road, about a half mile south of Glasgow.

Eric Wells of Glasgow went to the department Monday morning after a fight with Glasgow resident Andy Holley, 27, that left Holley hospitalized with a gunshot wound, according to Kentucky State Police.

Wells was charged with first-degree assault and first-degree possession of a controlled substance, according to the report.

Wells is awaiting bond in Hart County Jail.

Arrest Bowling Green Police Department officers arrested a Bowling Green man Sunday morning in connection to a string of car break-ins on Spencer Court and Webb Avenue.

Jeffrey Aaron Haynes, 25, 1124 Ky. 185, was arrested after police found his girlfriends abandoned car with several CD players in the front passenger seat. After interviewing Haynes girlfriend, police learned the man had taken her car Saturday and had not returned since.

Haynes was found in the back seat of a vehicle at 1347 Ky. 185 and he told police someone had stolen his girlfriends car and he did not remember what happened because he was intoxicated, the report said.

He told police that he remembered stealing one CD player, but did not remember stealing any others because he was intoxicated. According to a BGPD report, Haynes told police he probably did steal the other CD players, but could not remember.

Haynes is in Warren County Regional Jail on $15,000 cash bond.

Crime Stoppers

The resident of a home in the 1100 block of Old Barren River Road returned from an out-of-town trip Sunday evening to find that his new hot tub, which had yet to be installed, was missing from his backyard.

The hot tub was on a flatbed trailer, according to a city police report, and the homes resident had let the air out of the trailers tires before leaving town.

Someone apparently re-aired the trailers tires, hooked the trailer up to a truck and took the trailer and hot tub from the property.

The trailer was returned, but was not sitting in the same spot. The hot tub was valued at $1,000. Anyone with information on this crime is encouraged to place an anonymous call to Crime Stoppers at 781-CLUE.  Daily News ·813 College St. ·PO Box 90012 ·Bowling Green, KY ·42102 ·270-781-1700