Overview

• Police say Stephan Marcum, 58, was arrested in Stanton on charges of terroristic threatening and intimidating a witness.
• The yard display allegedly showed five bagged effigies labeled with local titles, including a hanging figure tagged “district judge” with a rope around its neck.
• Other labels observed by officers included “mayor,” “zoning mgr.,” “C. A.” and “SIS,” according to the arrest citation.
• Marcum declined to discuss the decorations with officers and is being held at the Powell County Detention Center on a $5,000 bond.
• Evidence from the scene was transferred to Kentucky State Police Post 8, and local officials and a University of Kentucky scholar questioned whether the display crossed from protected expression into a criminal threat.