Courts

 BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A former officer with the Providence Police Department, located in Webster County, Kentucky, was charged by federal grand jury indictment this week, with two counts of willfully depriving an arrestee of his constitutional rights under color of law, and one count of falsifying a document, announced the Justice Department and John E. Kuhn, Jr., United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.

William Dukes, Jr., 42 of Greenville, Kentucky, was arrested today and currently is in  federal custody.

 PADUCAH –  A Dresden, Tennessee, business owner and contract supplier was sentenced to 35 months in prison and ordered to pay $100,000 restitution today in United States District Court by Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell for his role in a conspiracy to defraud Fulton County citizens, through kickbacks and concealment of costs associated with work performed on the 2015 Fulton County Detention Center expansion, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.

  SHEPHERDSVILLE -- The taking of items belonging to other individuals was a common theme when the Bullitt Circuit Grand Jury recently met.

The following theft-related indictments were handed down:

*James C. Edwards — charged with burglary, possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, theft by unlawful taking and being a persistent felony offender.

The indictment alleges that Edwards entered into a home on Dec. 16, 2016, armed with a deadly weapon with the intent to commit a crime.

 LOUISVILLE – A Louisville felon was sentenced to serve a life sentence without the possibility of parole, by Chief District Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr, in United States District Court today, for coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.  Arthur Wayne Kniffley is currently serving a 210-month sentence for distribution and possession of child pornography.