- Bourbon County deputies took former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin into custody on Sept. 3 while he had a featured-extra credit in a Great American Family Christmas production.
- The warrant traced back to a Jefferson Family Court contempt order after Bevin missed a deadline to hand over tax returns, bank statements and other financial records tied to his adopted son's child support claim.
- A day later, Judge Angela Johnson denied Bevin's request for home confinement and ordered him to serve out the full 60 days behind bars, plus the $500 fine attached to the original order.
- The underlying case involves Jonah Bevin, one of four children the former governor and his ex-wife adopted from Ethiopia, who says he was abandoned as a teenager at an abusive Jamaican youth facility.
- The story now brushes up against Kentucky politics: Bevin's 2019 running mate, Ralph Alvarado, is one of several Republicans competing for the U.S. House seat that Andy Barr is vacating to run for the open Senate seat — not because Barr is retiring.
Former Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin spent Thursday afternoon in front of a camera on a horse farm outside Paris, Kentucky, working an on-screen bit part in a holiday romance. By that evening he was behind bars in Louisville. A day after that, a judge told him plainly that his months of dodging a family court order were over.
