Federal Charges Filed Against Pepper
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Federal charges have been officially filed against a woman who was a passenger in a car during a trooper shooting in Henderson County. It was just three weeks ago, Trooper Dwayne Stanford stopped Cristl Pepper, 47 who was wanted in Kentucky and whose arrest along Interstate 40 sent her passenger into a shooting rampage that would cost him his life. Pepper is charge with three counts of weapons charges in the shooting. She was initially wanted in Kentucky for writing bad checks at the time of her arrest. According to court papers, show has been given a public defender and will remain in custody until her federal detention hearing on Monday. Investigators said her passenger, Robert Cunningham, Junior, 50, was killed when he began firing shots at Trooper Stanford as he walked back to Pepper’s car. Cunningham was killed as the result of the gunfire exchanged between he and Stanford.
