Judges issue piles of new warrants every day. Because Donald Colston was a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair, the case was particularly troublesome and left authorities scrambling to explain why they were unable to find a man who could barely leave his house. More than 9,000 unserved warrants were outstanding at the time Sandra Colston was shot dead in 1996. It's still as thick, however, as the Northern Kentucky Yellow Pages. Judges issue 500 to 550 warrants a month, compared with 450 to 500 served in the same time period, said Kenton County Police Chief Mike Browning.
Warrants clog computers all over Kentucky.
In Jefferson County, officials frustrated by their list of more than 70,000 decided a year ago to sort through it carefully. Another 859 warrants were found for people who had died. Mr. Korzenborn promised during his election campaign last year that he would attack the backlog. That was a departure from previous administrations' philosophies. Former Sheriff Bill Steenken took a lot of heat for his flat-out refusal to make a special effort.