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BY MAGEN MCCRAREY
Staff writer
In the event of a hostage situ-ation, bomb threat or high risk traffi c stop, Laurel
County Sheriff John Root and his staff will ensure the public’s safety at all times with a specialized tactical response unit (SRU), which formed offi cially in late 2011. This Wednesday, six Sheriff’s offi cers met for training at an out-door shooting range.
The sun set over the dirt-covered shooting range as Lt. Rod-ney Van Zant led the SRU through fi ve tactical drills. All SRU members were certifi ed in night operations.
“The worst thing to hear is a ‘click’ when you need a ‘bang’,” Van Zant said, regarding heavy tactical situa-tions that involve the exchange of gun-fi re.
Detective Daryl Zanet is at the front lines of operations as a hostage nego-tiator. Meanwhile, Sgt. Chuck Johnson
and Van Zant serve as snipers, laying low at a distant range to observe the overall situation, and Deputy John Blanton stands nearby as a 12-year paramedic and sharp-shooter along with Deputy Brett Reeves.
“What we do is beyond the scope of regular police activity,” Detective Ja-son Back said.
Sheriff Root initiated the SRU pro-gram to further service the citizens of Laurel County. On average, there are approximately six to 10 emergency
calls or planned op-erations that occur each year that de-ploy the unit. The sheriff’s offi ce hasutilized their SRU over the past yearto serve numerous narcotics warrants, warrants for felo-nies for wanted per-sons, and hostageor injured citizen/offi cer rescue withtheir team tacticsand precision weap-ons.
“These are situa-tions that must be dealt with a greatdegree of training,planning and expe-
rience,” Van Zant said.Van Zant stated, often times, the SRU
is called upon to assist a deputy whofeels they need more manpower to ac-complish a desired task.
“The deputy may fi nd himself at atactical disadvantage due to any situ-ation that may fall outside the realmof ‘average daily patrol activities’ orbecause of the lack of deputy experi-
BY BECKY KILLIAN
CNHI News Service
A Laurel County couple who own two Clay County pharmacies were the target of an investigation into il-legal drug traffi cking, according to documents fi led in London’s U.S. Dis-trict Court.
The civil action calls for the for-feiture of property owned by Terry
Tenhet and his wife, Melissa Tenhet, at 300 Blackberry Lane, London, in Hemlock Falls Subdivision.
According to an affi davit fi led Sept. 13 by Douglas I. Dalrymple, a special agent with the U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Adminis-tration, the Tenhets own Community Drug and Medi Center pharmacies and that “Community Drug regu-larly fi lls prescriptions for controlled
pharmaceuticals from out-of-state pain clinics, and the prescriptions are fi lled despite indicators that custom-ers are involved in the diversion of controlled substances.”
The drug traffi cking investigation began in January and resulted in a Sept. 11 search of the Tenhets’ Clay County businesses, a storage building and their London home.
The affi davit states that a new client
base with out-of-state prescriptions for oxycodone began using Commu-nity Drug. Those out-of-state clientswere charged more for the drug thanKentucky clients. A Kentucky phar-macist who was interviewed as part of the investigation reported Com-munity Drug charged $1,300 cashfor 180 30-milligram and 120 15-milli-gram oxycodone pills. That pharma-cist said a comparable prescriptionfor 120 30-milligram pills should cost
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Cheddar’s Casual Cafe, nor-mally called Cheddar’s, will open sometime next year next to the Cracker Barrel in Lon-don.
Lee Greer, owner of Ched-dar’s, said nothing is set in stone. The only plan is to have it open by 2013.
The company bought 3 acres of land on Faith Assembly Church Road in September for $1.5 million.
Cheddar’s is an American chain of casual dining restau-rants. They have burgers, pub food, sandwiches, and subs at reasonable prices.
The chain was founded in 1978 in Arlington, Texas, by Aubrey Good and Douglas Rogers. More than 80 Ched-dar’s restaurants operate throughout the United States, primarily in the South and Midwest.
Cheddar’s does not advertise in any medium, instead rely-ing on word of mouth.
Lexington has currently two Cheddar’s restaurants. A third will open soon.
More information will be available in the next few months.
Cheddar’s is coming in 2013
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SERVETo protect
PHOTOS BY MAGEN McCRAREYLaurel County Sheriff’s Sgt. Chuck Johnson (left) completed a drill with Lt. Rodney Van Zant (right). These drills serve as a reminder to always have your partner’s back covered at all times.
Laurel County Sheriff ’s Special Response Unit trains for the unexpected
Detective Daryl Zanet practiced his marksman skills during a portion of the evening’s SRU drills.
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BY MAGEN MCCRAREY
Staff writer
Severe storms clouded the sunset in Laurel County Friday evening and gave way to a fi erce force of na-ture. The National Weather Service in Jackson, Ky. reported a funnel formed over Wood Creek Lake at around 7 p.m.
Minutes later, a fl ash of lightning lit up the sky on Bentley Road in East Bernstadt that revealed a funnel whistling northeast from I-75 bound for eye-witness Aaron Holt’s home.
“It was horrifi c. We didn’t see it because it was so black and cloudy but when the lightning struck that’s when we saw it,” Holt said.
Aaron Holt and his wife, Tori, rode out the storm with about 10 of his closest neighbors in his basement. Up the road, James Sawyers sat, bent over his bathtub in his double-wide trailer, praying.
Sawyers was left with his life, but not much else.
“All I got left is me and my car,”
he said on Saturday morning as he stood atop a littered ground where is trailer once stood.
Ethel Pruitt was not as lucky. She was killed when the tornado
destroyed her mobile home on Bent-ley Road. Another occupant of the home was critically injured.
The tornado’s destructive path drew further northeast as it touched down on Old Hare Road, and then Little Arthur Ridge Road.
The tornado claimed the lives of fi ve Laurel Countains, either that very night or by injuries sustained from the tornado. Other fatalities
were: Wilburn and Virginia “Lizzie” Pitman of Old Hare Road; and Sher-man Wayne and Debbie Allen of Little Arthur Ridge Road.
On Little Arthur Ridge Road, Candace Wright was about to head to neighbor Donald Rhode’s base-ment when the tornado whipped overthe ridge, wiping away four mobile homes in its wake.
“It was a loud roaring sound just like they say, like a train,” Wright said. “We just didn’t have time.”
Five people rode out the tornado in Rhodes’ basement on Little Arthur Ridge Road, just across the street from where Sherman Wayne and Debbie Allen were killed.
“We heard it coming and I tried to get everyone down in the basement,” Rhodes said. “It took me a while but I fi nally got everyone, including the dog.”
Rhode’s home was completely torn away by the tornado, leaving nothing but the basement walls where the
BY WILLIE SAWYERS
Publisher
Cassie Gray of Manchester was on the phone with her daughter several times Friday evening during the outbreak of severe weather. Her daugh-ter was worried. When her phone fell silent, she knew something bad had happened.
“My daughter said they had made it through the fi rst storm, but she didn’t know if they were going to make it through this one,” Gray said. “I kept trying to call her and call her, but she never answered.”
Gray’s daughter, Debbie Allen, was killed along with Allen’s husband, Sherman Wayne, when the tornado demolished their double wide mobile home on Little Arthur Ridge Road.
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An aerial view of the Visone Auto Mart on north U.S. 25 after a tornado tore through northern Laurel County Friday evening. The business specializes in recreational vehicles, campers and wholesale autos.
Mother talked with daughter shortly before death
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The garage was ripped off this home on north U.S. 25.
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Sharon Norris recovers the personal belongings of her sister, Debbie Allen, who along with her husband was killed in Friday’s tornado. Norris was at the scene Saturday along with her mother, Cassie Gray.
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