A Lexington council candidate who was recently charged with felony assault may not live in the council district he has filed to run in, according to court records.
Matt Miniard, 69, of Lexington, was charged with second-degree assault Feb. 14. During a Feb. 20 court hearing, Lexington police officers said they were dispatched to the 100 block of Burley Avenue, after Miniard called 911 and said he was attacked, according to Lexington police who testified during the hearing. Miniard told officers he returned home after a long day of work and found chores he had asked the victim to do had not been done.
That address, which is listed as Miniard’s home address in court records, is not in the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council’s 9th Council District. Miniard filed to run in that district, which includes neighborhoods in southwest Lexington between Nicholasville and Harrodsburg roads, on Dec. 30…