By Lisa Simpson Strange
The Glasgow Daily Times
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A paramedic with the Barren-Metcalfe Emergency Medical Service has been suspended without pay following his arrest Friday in Nashville.
Roy J. Howard, 39, of Glasgow, was taken into custody by Nashville Metro Police on a felony fugitive from justice warrant issued by Kentucky law enforcement officials and was lodged in the Davidson County Correctional System on a $100,000 bond.
In a statement issued Tuesday morning, Barren-Metcalfe EMS director Mike Swift said Howard had been the subject of a joint internal review by T.J. Samson Community Hospital and the ambulance service on April 20. After the review, the Glasgow Police Department was notified to begin a criminal investigation into Howard’s actions.
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