LAWRENCE COUNTY KENTUCKY MAN ARRESTED AFTER GOING ‘WILD WEASEL’, AS INEBRIATED SUSPECT SET HIS HOUSE ON FIRE, SHOT AT RELATIVES AND FIREFIGHTERS, AND FOUGHT WITH COPS AND EMS AFTER BREAKING OUT GLASS WINDOW OF POLICE CRUISER
SUSPECT CLAIMS RELATIVE SET HIS HOUSE ON FIRE, AND SHOT AT HIM TOO, BUT EVIDENCE AND EYEWITNESSES CONTRADICT HIS STORY
JANUARY 24, 2024 – written by WADE QUEEN
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LAWRENCE COUNTY KENTUCKY MAN ARRESTED AFTER GOING ‘WILD WEASEL’, AS INEBRIATED SUSPECT SET HIS HOUSE ON FIRE, SHOT AT RELATIVES AND FIREFIGHTERS, AND FOUGHT WITH COPS AND EMS AFTER BREAKING OUT GLASS WINDOW OF POLICE CRUISERSUSPECT CLAIMS RELATIVE SET HIS HOUSE ON FIRE, AND SHOT AT HIM TOO, BUT EVIDENCE AND EYEWITNESSES CONTRADICT HIS STORY
HE WENT ‘WILD WEASEL’: LESLIE MORGAN TRIPLETT, 26, OF LOUISA, KENTUCKY.
A Lawrence County, Kentucky man was arrested last week after what started as an emergency call about a house fire turned into a violent altercation with emergency responders and police.
According to the arrest report, on Thursday night, January 18, at 9:47 P..M., Lawrence County Sheriff Office deputy Travis Music was contacted by the Fallsburg Fire Department, to respond to 8118 North Highway 3 in Lawrence County, to response to for a report of shots fired at a house fire.
When deputy Music, along with deputy Joseph Osborne, and patrolman officer Teddy Newsome of the Louisa Police Department arrived at the address, they found that an individual identified as Leslie Morgan Triplett, 26, of Louisa, KY., was walking around the fire trucks in an agitated state.
The officers made contact with Leslie Triplett and asked him what had happened, to which Leslie Triplett would only say that his house was on fire and nobody would put it out. After the officers got Leslie Triplett to calm down, he told them that a family member, whose name was redacted in the report, had been shooting at him, and set his house on fire.
Deputy Music wrote in the arrest report that Leslie Triplett appeared to be manifestly under the influence of a stimulant, due to his physical indicators. It was then that Leslie Triplett at the time was detained and placed in the rear passenger side of deputy Music’s cruiser.
Law enforcement members made contact with Leslie Triplett’s neighboring family, as well as making the area safe for the fire department to put the fire out. Deputy Osborne made contact with Leslie Triplett’s relative’s 15-year-old son, who stated that his father did not have a firearm, and was only trying to help with the fire. He stated that Leslie Triplett had been acting strange all day. He also said he and his sister witnessed Leslie Triplett set his own house on fire.
Deputy Music wrote in the arrest report that he made contact with man’s relative, along with his girlfriend, who was holding their newborn child, and that both stated that Lesslie Triplett had shot a sawed-off shotgun in the direction of their house.
The subject stated officers could search his residence for a firearm, to which led to no firearm being located. The man also then stated to law-enforcement that Leslie Triplett set his own house on fire, and then he barricaded himself inside it.
Deputy Music wrote in the arrest report that when he, officer Newsome, and the EMS crew were walking back to their cruisers, Leslie Triplett busted out the right rear window. of deputy Music’s patrol car and tried to climb out.
As Lelsie Triplett was trying to get out of the window, two EMS workers (names redacted) spotted him, and raised the alarm to all the police officers at the scene. Leslie Triplett was assisted to the ground outside the door of the police cruiser, and that he refused to place his hands behind his back.
It was at that time when Leslie Triplett kicked both EMS workers and deputy Joseph Osborne. Leslie Triplett was placed in handcuffs, and was put in officer Teddy Newsome’s police cruiser, where he then started to yell loud obscenities at them.
Deputy Travis Music finished the report by saying that Leslie Triplett did not have any injuries from the wide arrange of events that took place.
Leslie Morgan Triplett was charged with the 9 following offenses (4 felonies and 5 misdemeanors):
* ARSON, 3RD DEGREE,
* PUBLIC INTOXICATION-CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE (EXCLUDES ALCOHOL),
* WANTON ENDANGERMENT -1ST DEGREE,
* ESCAPE, 3RD DEGREE.
* CRIMINAL MISCHIEF 2ND DEGREE,
* ASSAULT 3RD DEGREE-POLICE OFFICER OR PROBATION OFFICER,
* ASSAULT 3RD DEGREE (EMS ,FIRE ,RESCUE SQUAD),
* RESISTING ARREST,
* DISORDERLY CONDUCT, 2ND DEGREE.
Leslie Morgan Triplett was transported to the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville, and was lodged on Friday, January 19, at 2:20 A.M. He has since posted his bond and has been released from the BSRDC jail.
