LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Breckinridge County Sheriff Todd Pate was arrested Friday night and charged with suspicion of DUI.
Kentucky State Police said Pate was involved in a injury accident just before 7:35 p.m. on KY 259 in Breckinridge County. Pate crashed into a car driven by a woman from Leitchfield. She was transported to Breckinridge County Memorial Hospital with injuries, but she's expected to be OK.
After hitting the woman, Pate crashed into a utility pole and a barbwire fence. He was arrested shortly after the crash and charged.
He was also arrested in October 2015 in a Waffle House parking lot in Bowling Green, charged with DUI, reckless driving and terroristic threatening. He didn't spend any time in jail back in 2015, because his 30-day sentence was suspended. He paid an $800 fine instead.
"He got by with something you or I wouldn't have gotten by with," Gene Bennett, who lives in Breckinridge County said.
"How is that fair that the sheriff of the county, he's supposed to be leading by such a high example, how does he get to a keep his job and keep his gun?" Tim Mckellar, who also lives in Breckinridge County said.
"If it had been me or you, or anybody else we would have done jail time, lost our drivers license, probably lost our job and I think all he get was an $800 dollar fine, no jail time and came right back to work," Bennett said. "I think he needs to turn his Sheriff's badge over to one of his deputies."
Pate was driving his personal vehicle, a 2018 Chevrolet pickup, at the time of Friday's crash. He was lodged in the Hardin County Detention Center.
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