{"id":536090,"date":"2026-03-21T04:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/536090\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T04:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:54:08","slug":"kentucky-man-called-andy-barrs-campaign-office-dozens-of-times-before-allegedly-breaking-in-crime-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/536090\/","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky man called Andy Barr&#8217;s campaign office dozens of times before allegedly breaking in | Crime Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) \u2014 The Richmond man who allegedly broke into Kentucky Representative Andy Barr&#8217;s campaign headquarters last month called the office more than 30 times before breaking in.<\/p>\n<p>According to new court records, 39-year-old Blake Lashelle called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdrb.com\/news\/crime-reports\/man-arrested-for-allegedly-breaking-into-andy-barrs-senate-campaign-office-in-lexington\/article_2531ce05-5ba6-4a29-a007-93801f6b2287.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barr&#8217;s campaign office<\/a> more than 35 times, and more than 15 times on Feb. 26, before breaking the door, yelling at staff, and causing more than $2,000 in damage.<\/p>\n<p>Lashelle is also accused of pulling on the door several times before breaking the lock.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s charged with first-degree criminal mischief and was ordered to have no contact with Barr&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Lashelle is due in court on April 9.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WDRB Media. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) \u2014 The Richmond man who allegedly broke into Kentucky Representative Andy Barr&#8217;s campaign headquarters last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[227028,227030,227032,4,450,451,168533,21689,3,452,453,21691,21690],"class_list":["post-536090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-andy-barr","tag-blake-lashelle","tag-break-in-at-andy-barr","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-louisville-ky","tag-louisville-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-wdrb","tag-wdrb-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}