{"id":1043260,"date":"2026-09-04T17:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1043260\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T17:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:13:33","slug":"former-kentucky-gov-matt-bevin-arrested-on-movie-set-in-bourbon-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1043260\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin arrested on movie set in Bourbon County"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin arrested on movie set in Bourbon County<\/p>\n

\"Matthew\"FletcherBOURBON COUNTY, Ky. \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has been booked into jail after being arrested on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Bevin was arrested just outside of Lexington by the Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office and taken to the Louisville Metro Jail.<\/p>\n

He is set to appear in court at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n

\"Image\"ImageBevin arrested on movie set <\/p>\n

According to the Bourbon County Sheriff’s Office, their communications center got a call that Bevin was in Bourbon County participating in a movie project and may have a warrant for his arrest. <\/p>\n

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The sheriff’s office says they confirmed the arrest warrant stemmed from a contempt charge and made contact with Bevin at the movie project and he was taken into custody shortly after. <\/p>\n

According to NBC affiliate WLEX, “The Greatest Christmas Gift of All,” a new Great American Family movie, was wrapping up a nearly two-week shoot in downtown Paris.<\/p>\n

The owner of the farm in Paris, KY being used as the set talked to WLWT’s sister station WLKY.<\/p>\n

She said Bevin was arrested during filming.<\/p>\n

She said the sheriff pulled up around 6 p.m. and started showing people Bevin’s picture, and then the sheriff was led inside.<\/p>\n

At the time, they were shooting a wedding scene. <\/p>\n

Police let him use the restroom then took him into custody.<\/p>\n

She said that the movie filming resumed after he was arrested.<\/p>\n

Charges he faces<\/p>\n

Jail records indicate Bevin has been charged with contempt of court libel\/slander resistance to order.<\/p>\n

Bevin previously had a bench warrant out of Jefferson County<\/a> after being found in contempt of court during a dispute over a child support case.<\/p>\n

According WLKY in Louisville, Bevin attempted to join a July 28 hearing via Zoom, but Judge Angela Johnson kicked him off the hearing, saying her order was clear for him to be present in court.<\/p>\n

This came, WLKY says, after Bevin was repeatedly a no-show for hearings since May, when Johnson initially issued a warrant for his arrest. <\/p>\n

Bevin served as Kentucky\u2019s governor from 2015-19, before losing his bid for re-election against current Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.<\/p>\n

This story will be updated with more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin arrested on movie set in Bourbon County BOURBON COUNTY, Ky. \u2014 Former Kentucky…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1043261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[417754,417752,95592,417751,41851,281,68587,3153,27995,43083,50,417753,58035,1630,2450,67,132,68,370503],"class_list":["post-1043260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-bench-warrant","tag-bevin","tag-bid","tag-bourbon-county","tag-contempt","tag-court","tag-dispute","tag-governor","tag-jefferson-county","tag-louisville","tag-news","tag-office-dispatch","tag-re-election","tag-report","tag-thursday","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wlky"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117213898493582017","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1043261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}