Man’s drunken rampage injures 2, buildings damaged

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a Woodbine man’s wild, drunken rampage through downtown Corbin late Friday night that resulted in structural damage to two buildings, a crosswalk signal and injured two people.
Gregory Boggs, 36, allegedly rammed his 1995 Chevrolet Blazer into The Depot on Main – a restaurant and comedy club in downtown Corbin – the dental offices of Robert Ballou and Contours Express, a women’s only fitness facility, after employees at The Depot refused to serve him alcohol.
“You’d have to have been here to believe it,” Depot on Main owner Rick Curry said of the incident. “He was berserk. He was out of his mind.”
Restaurant Patron Jack Rutherford was struck by Boggs’ vehicle as he exited the restaurant and was transported to Baptist Regional Medical Center to be treated for multiple injuries. Boggs struck Jennifer Jewell, another pedestrian, while she was walking in NIBROC Park. Police say the man drove over a crosswalk sign and also hit a silver Mercedes sitting outside the club.
The whole incident started just before midnight and police were called minutes later.
Corbin Police Officer Jason Williams located Boggs traveling down Master Street near Commonwealth Ave. and a short chase ensued. After jumping curbs, and driving across lawns and a field, Boggs finally stopped and surrendered to authorities in the area of Waco Drive and Stinson Ave. in Corbin Mobile Home Park.
“He looked kind of out of it,” Williams said of Boggs when he was finally detained. “He didn’t have a whole lot to say about the whole thing. He just said ‘You just don’t know what I’ve been through.'”
Williams said Boggs claimed he just came back from military deployment in Iraq and said he was a Navy SEAL – an elite unit specially trained for unconventional warfare. Police have not been able to confirm his statements.
“He was mad. He was definitely trying to hurt somebody,” Officer Robbie Hodge said. He was also part off the effort to stop Boggs. “He had to know what he was doing.”
Curry said Boggs was obviously drunk when he came into The Depot and was thrown out of the restaurant after he urinated on the bathroom walls and threw a shot glass at a bartender.
“That problem didn’t start here. We don’t serve people who are drunk,” Curry said. “If I’d known he was as messed up as he was, we would have held him and called the police sooner.”
Corbin Police Chief Carson Mullins, who also serves as the city’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Administrator, said he is investigating the possibility that any of the restaurants that serve alcohol in town could have over served Boggs. Mullins said Boggs was allegedly at Buckner’s in south Corbin before he went to The Depot.
“I’m looking into that. Right now, everyone at Buckner’s and The Depot are cooperating,” Mullins said. “To my knowledge, both of them refused to serve him.”
He said any local restaurant suspected of serving too much alcohol to a patron or providing alcohol to an obviously drunk person would be “in serious trouble.”
Curry said the incident was the first major problem he’s had since opening The Depot about nine months ago. He estimated damage to his building at $2,000.
Mullins said he expects Boggs will be responsible for paying for the damage he caused if he is found guilty in court.
Boggs was charged with DUI, five counts of first-degree criminal mischief, two counts of second-degree assault, driving with no insurance, leaving the scene of an accident and fleeing or evading police.
According to a police report of the incident, Boggs registered a .202 on a Breathalyzer test – more than twice the legal limit. In Kentucky, .08 is considered legally intoxicated. Williams said police discovered some prescription antidepressant medication in Boggs’ vehicle after the arrest. The prescriptions were made for Boggs.
He is currently being held on $1 million bond in the Clay County Detention Center.