JESSAMINE COUNTY, Ky. (LEX NEWS) — A clerical error on a police citation appears to be the source of a mix-up that led to the arrest of a Kentucky pharmacist who was wrongly linked to a man with a criminal record.
LEX News Investigates has been following the case of Dr. Shelby Dela Cruz, who was pulled over in Jessamine County and arrested on charges of operating on a suspended license and failure to surrender a revoked license after state records incorrectly showed her license was suspended.
A Carter County Circuit Court judge later ruled that a clerical error caused the mistake. Court records showed Dela Cruz’s identity became linked to Stephen Ludwig of Grayson, whose driving history included a suspended license. The two share the same birthday, and their Social Security numbers differed by a single digit…