Kentucky
‘Suspicious activity:’ Kentucky State Fair closed early Saturday night
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WTVF) — The Kentucky State Truthful closed early on Saturday night time because of what Kentucky State Police referred to as “suspicious exercise.”
The truthful closed at 10 p.m. EST, but it surely introduced that it will reopen and resume regular hours of exercise on Sunday.
On Sunday at 12:50 p.m. EST, the Kentucky State Truthful launched a press release concerning the incident and investigation.
The Kentucky State Truthful is a long-standing custom of enjoyable and togetherness for a lot of households. It’s unlucky that a couple of people and poor choices disrupted that. Whereas we aren’t capable of present particulars on the police investigation, we’re grateful nobody was injured and admire the Kentucky State Police and our Truthful Workforce members who rapidly responded to this incident. Based mostly on present data accessible, the Kentucky State Truthful will proceed with regular operations August 21, 2022.
KSP confirmed there have been no reported accidents, and that there have been arrests with pending costs.
In response to the Kentucky State Truthful web site, round 9:20 p.m., police have been first “made conscious of a state of affairs” in entrance of The Halfway and instantly took motion to analyze and safe the premises. The tender shut at 10 p.m. was introduced shortly after.