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Man Tased After Standing in the Road With a Knife in Taylor County

A Taylor County man was arrested after being tased Wednesday morning on Highway 70 at Acton, sheriff Dickie Benningfield told 99.9 The Big Dawg News that his department was dispatched to the Acton community in reference to a suspicious person standing in the middle of the highway, upon arrival deputies made contact with Adam Powell age 37 of Campbellsville, Benningfield said Powell was armed with a knife refusing to drop it, Powell was tased and taken into custody and during the investigation it was learned that Powell had set fire to a garage at the intersection of Highway 70 and Stoner Creek Road.

 

Powell is charged with Arson, disordery conduct, menacing and resisting arrest and lodged in the TC Detention Center, the arrest by Corporal Stephen Dobson with the Taylor County Sheriffs Department.