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Suspicious behavior at bank leads to high speed chase, wreck

From the Campbellsville Police Department

At approximately 3:10pmET, personnel at the Citizens Bank and Trust Branch located at KY 210 and Nancy Cox Drive in Campbellsville, KY, contacted Campbellsville Police to report a suspicious person. According to statements from bank employees, the male suspect entered the bank and spoke briefly with an employee. The suspect exhibited behaviors which caused concern.

Officer Scotty Perian observed a vehicle matching the description provided by the bank. Officer Perian initiated a traffic stop at the intersection of KY 210 and KY 55. Officer Perian approached the vehicle and the driver sped off. Officer Perian pursued the vehicle south on KY 55. Additional Campbellsville Police units assisted. The driver of the truck ran off KY 55 and struck a parked vehicle. Officers from the Taylor County Sheriff's Office and Kentucky State Police assisted at the scene.



The operator of the truck is identified as 63 year old Eugene Earl Gentry, of Lafayette, TN. Mr. Gentry was injured in the collision and was airlifted to University of Kentucky Hospital.

The case remains under investigation by the Campbellsville Police Department. The traffic collision is being investigated by Deputy Mark Dicken of the Taylor County Sheriffs Office.


This story was posted on 2013-10-29 17:10:45
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Firemen try to remove driver from wreckage after high speed chase



2013-10-29 - Taylor County, KY - Photo by Lawrence Hamilton. Lawrence writes, "This accident happened at 3:30 on 55 South, one mile north of Adair-Taylor line. Police chased this guy from Campbellsville and it was said that he may have been traveling at 100mph." The driver was airlifted to University of Kentucky Hospital.
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Police, fire, and ambulance workers on scene



2013-10-29 - Taylor County, KY - Photo by Lawrence Hamilton. Just north of the Taylor-Adair County line, KY 55 between Columbia and Campbellsville was closed this afternoon around 3:30pmET. Rescue crews struggled to remove a driver from his pickup truck after a wreck that was the tragic end to a high-speed chase starting in Campbellsville. The status of the driver is unknown at this time.
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Is this the man who fled police at speeds up to 100 mph?



2013-11-01 - 1582 Campbellsville Road Columbia, KY - Photo From Columbia Police Department, UCB Bank surveillance photo. This United Citizens Bank surveillance footage shows the man who robbed the Campbellsville Road UCB branch bank in October of 2012. Barely one year later, a string of events and a look at the driver of the car which crashed in Taylor County October 29, 2013 has led Adair County Sheriff Harrison Moss to believe the incidents are related. Eugene Earl Gentry, 42, who was seriously injured in the Tuesday, October 29, 2013, incidents in Taylor County, is in a Louisville hospital! Campbellsville Police are investigating the Tuesday events. Columbia Police are investigating the October 2012 UCB bank robbery.
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