Spot News

February 1, 2006

Sometimes we hear about spot news events from our police and fire scanners. Sometimes we hear about spot news events from telephone tips to the newsroom. But sometimes spot news events just happen in front of us.

I was off work yesterday and was driving back to Lexington on U.S. 27 after a quick morning trip to Monticello, Ky. As I approached the bridge over the Kentucky River at the Garrard County/Jessamine County line, I ran into a long line of stopped traffic with police officers out of their cruisers walking along the road. Without a clue as to what was happening, I grabbed my cameras and talked to Kentucky State Trooper Bob Amon who informed me that a bank had been robbed in Lancaster and that the police had arrested the suspects just up the hill from the river. As law enforcement officers from various agencies pursued the bank robbers, the suspects had thrown some of the stolen money out their window. Several motorists got out of their cars and watched as police officers scoured the roadside picking up stolen money. Go to Kentucky.com to read the complete story. Charles Bertram