Around 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 12, Glasgow police officers were dispatched to assist Probation and Parole with a reported combative subject.[1] On arrival police saw probation and parole officers struggling with the subject, identified as Kenneth Stephens of Glasgow.[1] Barrenside reported the man as 45-year-old Kenneth V. Stephens.[2] Stephens was detained after allegedly physically assaulting multiple officers, scratching one and pushing another into a set of large mirrors.[1] Authorities said Stephens was reported to have a strong odor of marijuana.[1]

Stephens admitted to probation and parole that he possessed marijuana at his home.[1] Police later obtained a search warrant for his residence.[2] Executing the warrant, probation and parole located marijuana, scales, a grinder and an unidentified powder, along with a large amount of cash.[1] The powder is described as an unidentified tan powder substance.[2]

Stephens was arrested and charged with second-degree criminal mischief, menacing, third-degree assault of a police officer or probation officer and public intoxication involving a controlled substance, excluding alcohol.[1] He faces additional charges of trafficking in marijuana (less than 8 ounces), first offense, possession of drug paraphernalia and first-degree possession of a controlled substance, first offense, with the drug unspecified.[1] He was transported to the Barren County Detention Center.[1] He remained jailed at the Barren County Detention Center.[2]