Sex Offender Invades Laurel County Home

{East Bernstadt, Kentucky}...Police say Mark Copeland had been in another part of his house on Pennington Drive in the East Bernstadt area of Laurel County Monday morning when, just after 6:00 A.M., he went into the kitchen and found 36 year old Michael White, a sex offender convicted in Massachusetts in 1993, helping himself to a bowl of cereal. Copeland, a truck driver, called police and prevented White from leaving until deputies arrived. White, who was allegedly impaired, scuffled with deputies after they arrived. Police charged White with controlled-substance public intoxication, failing to comply with sex-offender registration, resisting arrest, giving police a false name and third-degree criminal mischief. White told police he thought the house belonged to his girlfriend.