Former Wayne County Clerk Arrested

{Monticello, Kentucky}...Former Wayne County Clerk 39-year-old Jennifer "Melissa" Turpin of Monticello has been arrested and charged with one count of second-degree forgery, a Class D felony. Attorney General Jack Conway's office conducted an investigation after Turpin, the office manager and title clerk for Somerset Auto Auction in Somerset, was accused of forging the signature of Pulaski County Clerk Ralph Troxtell on a title for a 2006 Toyota Highlander sold on Craig's List to a Maryland resident. Turpin is also currently on probation in Franklin Circuit Court for filing false tax returns and failure to pay tax and in Wayne Circuit Court for abuse of public trust over $10,000.