Truck Driver Charged In 6 Deaths Picked Up In Kentucky By Hamilton County Fugitive Officers

  • Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Hamilton County Fugitive Division officers picked up Benjamin Brewer in Kentucky on Tuesday.  He is facing six voluntary manslaughter charges in Hamilton County. 

The assistant prosecutor handling Brewer’s case for the Commonwealth Attorney in Fayette County, Ky., informed District Attorney Neal Pinkston that the Kentucky charges against Brewer had been dropped.  

Officials said this means Brewer was available to be extradited from the Fayette County, Ky., Detention Center to Hamilton County.  

Brewer is charged in the June 25 incident in which the tractor-trailer he was driving plowed into a line of vehicles slowed or stopped for a construction project.

Brewer could not be found for several days after the charges were filed, then he was located in a car with Ms. Pennington in Lexington last week.

Brewer had been facing charges in Kentucky after three grams of crystal meth were found in his pocket.


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