FORE? ‘FOR’ LORD SAKES, EX-COP ERUPTS IN ‘FUROR’ NEARLY MANGLES TEENS AT AREA GOLF COURSE
FORMER KENTUCKY STATE POLICE TROOPER GETS CHARGED WITH HARASSING TEENAGERS OVER GOLF ETIQUETTE
APRIL 6, 2024 – written by WADE QUEEN
A retired Kentucky State Police trooper is scheduled to appear in court next month, after being accused of harassing and menacing four teenagers at the Stonecrest golf course in Floyd County, KY., following a dispute over golf etiquette.
John Gabbard, 55, of Prestonsburg, KY., was served with a complaint summons to answer four counts of second degree harassment and four counts of menacing next month. According to the complaint, John Gabbard allegedly subjected the teens to “an offensively coarse utterance, gesture or display” and “abusive language” at the Stonecrest back on Friday, March 22.
A video of a portion of the incident has circulated through social media. It appears to show a man identified as John Gabbard, yelling at and cursing someone off-camera in what appears to be the golf course’s parking lot, while complaining that someone didn’t yell “fore” and that he was almost hit in the head.
The complaint says all four of the teens were all placed “in reasonable apprehension of imminent physical injury.”
John Gabbard is scheduled to appear in Floyd County District Court for arraignment on Wednesday, May 15. John Gabbard has been ordered to have no contact with the teens or their immediate families.
