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Kentucky Stop Scams warns of jury duty scam

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The Team Kentucky Stop Scams team is alerting Kentuckians to scams involving jury duty and cryptocurrencies making the rounds again.

According to the Stop Scams team, scammers pretending to be a law enforcement officer will call the intended victim and claim that they missed jury duty. They will then direct the victim to pay a fine via a cryptocurrency kiosk to “resolve the situation” but the money instead goes directly to the scammer.

Legitimate law enforcement officials do not conduct business over the phone, and do not ask for payment in cryptocurrency to resolve fines. If you receive such a phone call, hang up immediately. The Stop Scams team says once cryptocurrency is sent, it is extremely difficult if not impossible to recover.

Visit stopscams.ky.gov for more information on scam attempts, including methods of reporting them, and to sign up for text and email alerts.

City of Elizabethtown says Wawa gas spill did not reach city stormwater system

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Elizabethtown Mayor Jeff Gregory said the city did not release information on a July 20 fuel spill at the upcoming Elizabethtown Wawa gas station because there was no imminent threat to the public and the incident happened on privately-owned property.

“It was under control,” Gregory said. “Our folks did a good job. We’re not the investigating agency. The state is, and we expected the state to cut a press release because it’s their investigation, or Wawa to cut a press release because it’s their business.”

Gregory asked staff with the city’s Stormwater Department to address the spill during Monday’s City Council meeting. A statement from Wawa released by the city states that the fuel spill “occurred during a routine quality test that was being performed by a third-party vendor/contractor.”

City Stormwater Director Rita Davis said 1,500 gallons of fuel spilled into the gas station’s private catch basin, which is connected to a 66,000 gallon underground detention system.

“We’ve been monitoring, checking the downstream catch basins to see if anything has left that Wawa site, and we’ve determined that nothing has left the site,” Davis said. It’s all collected into the underground detention basin.”

City Stormwater Engineer James Gray said the incident wasn’t reported because the gas never entered the public system.

“In the big picture here, it was about 25 bathtubs of liquid going into an area that holds 1,100 bathtubs full of liquid, so it was a lot of fuel, but there was adequate storage in the ground, nothing left,” Gray said.

Wawa said the grand opening of the gas station will be delayed to the fall to allow for full remediation of the site.

E-Town and Radcliff councils host work sessions

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The Elizabethtown City Council met for a work session Monday evening.

City Stormwater Director Rita Davis provided an update on work being planned for Henry Street. Davis said the city is in the process of acquiring 54 easements necessary to complete the work, and asked for the council’s opinion on lawn remediation for property owners.

“We’ve bounced around ideas as far as that can be part of the contractor’s responsibility to get that lawn restored to the end, or potentially doing a separate contract for a lawn restoration for a specific landscaping company to come in and take care of that,” Davis said.

City Attorney Ken Howard was asked to review the city’s requirements for public comments at meetings after a resident expressed concern with their address being improperly exposed if they were to comment. Howard recommended the policy be updated so that if a speaker does not want to give their name and address, they could write it down and give it to the city staff.

“That way we don’t have to worry about, ‘well, it’s a livestream and we can’t redact it,” Howard said. “It won’t be stated, and then it won’t be in the minutes later, at least not the address, so that we can control it in that way.”

The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet August 17.

Also meeting for a work session Monday evening was the Radcliff City Council. The council reviewed updates concerning the city’s bereavement leave policy to better enforce the policy as intended and policies involving employee retirement to match state adjustments. The council was provided with recommended policy updates from the Radcliff Police Department concerning facial recognition technology and automated license plate readers. RPD Chief Jeff Cross was at a conference Monday evening but wanted the council to review the recommendations ahead of their next meeting on August 18.