Commonwealth v. Monson

SPAIN, Justice.

We granted discretionary review in this case to address the issue of whether KRS 95.740(1) confers county-wide arrest powers upon police officers of fourth-class cities. We now answer the question in the affirmative, reversing a panel of the Court of Appeals, which held that said statute was an “... authoritative rather than a geographic grant of power to arrest.”

The case under review arose out of the arrest of the appellee, Jerome J. Monson, during the early morning hours of November 25, 1989, in the fourth-class city of Park Hills, Kenton County, Kentucky. Monson was observed…