A tip to law enforcement resulted in two arrests in Grayson County.
According to the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office, a citizen called the sheriff’s office on April 9 to report a “wanted person” removing items from a storage building next to a business on west U.S. 62 in Leitchfield. Grayson County Sheriff Norman Chaffins responded to the scene and saw a male subject walk out of the storage building and to a running vehicle. After being asked to identify himself, the man said his name was Shane Melton, and he produced an Indiana ID card.
Additional units arrived on scene and three more suspects exited the building. Melton was found to have active warrants out of Grayson, Hart, and LaRue counties along with an extradition warrant out of Indiana. He was also found to be in possession of a handgun and methamphetamine.
Melton was taken into custody. One of the suspects that exited the building was identified as William Sandlin of Leitchfield, for whom a warrant for Leaving the Scene of an Accident and other charges was issued a few days prior after Sandlin fled the scene of an accident on Claggett Road. Sandlin was also taken into custody, with both suspects lodged in the Grayson County Detention Center.
