The Breckinridge County Sheriff has been arrested again on a DUI charge after crashing into a Leitchfield woman.
According to Kentucky State Police spokesperson Scotty Sharp, at approximately 6:30 Friday night, Trooper Joey Beasley responded to a two-vehicle accident in the 9400 block of Hwy 259, near McDaniels.
Sharp said the preliminary investigation revealed that Breckinridge County Sheriff Todd Pate was driving his personal vehicle, a 2018 Chevrolet pickup truck, when he struck a 2007 Mercury Grand Marquis, being driven by Jill Lanning, of Leitchfield. After striking Lanning’s vehicle, Pate’s truck struck a utility pole before coming to rest in a barbwire fence.
Lanning was transported to Breckinridge County Memorial Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries and later released.
Pate was arrested on suspicion of DUI and lodged in the Hardin County Detention Center. He is not currently listed as an inmate at the facility.
Pate was arrested in October 2015 in Bowling Green after being found intoxicated and behind the wheel of a vehicle in the parking lot of a Waffle House. Police had been looking for Pate after his wife swore out a warrant against him for threatening to kill her and her parents. He was charged with terroristic threatening and DUI among other charges.
(Photo: Todd Pate mugshot from 2015 arrest)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
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