4-3-25 Willie with Rob Sanders

Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And I kind of monitor the case here of Timothy Delahanty, which is really unbelievable. And I texted you that this guy belongs to El Salvador in one of those prisons down there, which might be a fitting. But describe first of all the criminal history of this guy, who, on the same day he sentenced to life imprisonment, punches a deputy trying to take him to prison on a different charge. Tell us all about Dela.

twenty twenty three. He walks up to a Covington police officer in a parking lot of Saint Elizabeth Hospital in Covington and says, hey, I want to talk to you about this fellow that I stabbed death out in Ellsmere eighteen nineteen years ago. Un Fortunately, that officer that he happened to walk up and talk to had spent a little bit of time working in Ellesmere before moving to the Covington Police department, so he knew what he was talking about. Didn't just think he was some kind of

crazy person. Although he might be some kind of crazy person, but that's a whole nother story. Anyway, brought him in, called the Ellesmere Police. They sent a detective down, took his confession, we charged him up, and knighted him for murder. While he was incarcerated waiting for his case to be litigated on that murder charge, he decided to try and kill one of his fellow inmates at the Kenton County

Detention Center. Another guy that was in from but we had it all on video where he came up behind him and choked him unconscious, tried to strangle him to death, and when that didn't work, he started stomping on his head while he was unconscious, right in a rec yard

at the Kenton County Detention Center. So with his prior criminal history, he was eligible for sentencing enhancement as a persistent felony offender and first degree and he ended up entering an open plea means we refused to offer him any plea deals we were going to recommend the maximum. He went and plagued guilty anyway, went in front of the judge and Judge molloy and Kent Circuit Court gave

him life sentences on both of those cases. So apparently mister Delahnty wasn't too happy about getting those two life sentences because he was taken back to the Kenton County Detention Center to prep him for transport down to Lagrange

where they process all the state inmates. Before they could get him transported to Lagrange, he decided that as soon as one of the jail guards took his handcuffs off so he could shower, mister Delahnty took a sling at him, punched the jail wut right now in a face meanless to say, struggle was on. He did not win that fight, but he did get himself charged with the Sultan first

degree persistent fellon the offender in the first degree. We charged him up, took in the trial, and the jury gave him a maximum sentence of twenty years.

ad it. And so this guy, thinking I have nothing to lose, let's punch a cop and try to take him out.

But I tell you what, you are eligible for parole on a life sentence in twenty years. But now when he goes in front of that parole board, he's going to be looking at that one but two life sentences, is going to say, hey, wait a second. This guy was convicted of assaulting a jail guard and persistent fellon the offender, and the jury could have given him as little as ten years, but they maxed him out. They

gave him twenty years. They told us that this guy doesn't need to ever get out of prison, and that quite frankly, willly short of sending him to the out Salvadorian prison, is the best place he can be is locked in a box here in Kentucky for the rest of his life. And although he will be parole eligible someday, with this new twenty year sentence for assault third degree and PFO first degree. I doubt he's ever going to see the light of day.

So what's the punishment this guy could commit crimes and if and he could commit many crimes the next few years, and he gets nothing for it.

get certified in Google while you're in prison. That's one of the classes they offer. They have all kinds of stuff. They have anger management classes, they have parenting classes, they have all sorts of things. And normally inmates can get time off their sentence for them, but not Timmy. Since he's a violent offender, he doesn't get most of that good time credit. But nevertheless, it doesn't really matter because you can't save time off the back end of a life sentence.

And now they're going to see another assault on a law enforcement officer conviction that came after his life sentences. Like, buddy, you didn't learn your lesson from a life sentence, not two life sentences. You got twenty more years. In no way, we're never letting you out. And that's what mister de

la Ante has to look forward to now. So he might think it's a freebe but I think you know, about nineteen and a half years when he meets the parole board, he's gonna regret taking a swing at the jail deputy here in Kenton County, because we don't let anybody take free swings that are jail deputies or any of our law enforcement officers in Kenton County. You're going

to go to prison or stay in prison. Mister de la Ante's case, you're not getting out, and this will probably get him in some kind of height and security, you know, maximum security. They'll probably ship him down to Eddieville, which here is not a fun place to spend your time. But who knows, we might get a contract with the El Salvador him over there, because he would sit right in with all the Ms. Thirteen and everybody else that were sporting over to El Salvador to lock him up in their prisons.

to then come in the court room. First, he refused to put on his civilian clothes. You know they get they get your plane looking clothes. Even if you're serving a life sentence, you don't get into the court room in your jumpsuit. Although mister dela Hanty refused to change out of his pink jumpsuits, so he came into court shackled in a jumpsuit, and right before they brought the jury in, he started cussing the judge. He told me to perform a sex act on him, which I politely declined.

He wasn't very happy with anybody. He was cussing me, cussing the judge, cussing the ballasts, cussing the deputy jailers, and eventually demanded to go back into his cell. And the judge asked him if he was waving his right to participate, and he dropped a few more f bombs and she says, I'll take that as a yes, sends him on back so we actually did his trials fastest tribe ever done, Willie. We were done in just a little over three hours, which is unheard of. Normally my

trials go two, three, four days or more. But we got this spell any conviction, twenty years sentence done in three hours. But mister Dela Hanty wasn't there to enjoy it with me. He was back in his jail cell.

The judge gave him every opportunity. He told him he had to behave himself and quit you know, calling people fu and F this and F that, that he had to behave himself. He wouldn't do that. She asked him if he was waving his right to appear. He dropped a few more f's and she said, I'll take that as a yes, and that was the end of him. So, no,

you can. You can't proceed the trial if somebody is present at the courthouse and they are just the reason the trial is not proceeding with them in the courtroom.

guards could get him handcuffed. Mister dela Hanty took a couple of tasings in the process because he wouldn't cooperate put his hands behind his back, So no, I think mister de la Hanty ended up beating him bloody by

the end of it. Actually, I think the guards showed tremendous restraint because if he'd ha a sucker punched me like you did at him, I don't know that I could have resisted the temptation to throw a few sucker punches myself, but Adam did very professional about it, got him into handcuffs and they just locked him down in a restraint chair and put him in isolation and let him sit there until he calm him down. I don't think he's ever tried it again, because I'm definitely certain

that mister dellahuan't. He got the worst of that interaction.

when he believes in something, he stands by it. And nine times out of ten I'll agree with him, and even on the tenth time, when I don't, I still respect how principled he is, because we certainly don't have enough of that principle left in Washington, d C. But I wasn't sure what you were talking about, Willie. I thought it was the pregnant congressmen were the ones that were blowing things up here in the last twenty four hours. I didn't think any of those guys were having babies

or anything. So I was a little confused there. But nevertheless, you know, that's something. Thomas was the congressman that required everybody to come back in person and vote for those giant COVID and AID packages that put US trillions of dollars in debt and blew up the economy with all this inflation. You know, he was the one that said, this is what's going to happen if you do it, and everybody should come back to DC and vote on

the record. So as sympathetic as I am to new mothers and new followers that want to be proxy voting, I certainly understand and respected the fight against proxy voting that Thomas initially undertook. As for Senator Paul, I really haven't followed his fight on the tear enough to know who's right and who's wrong there. All I know is that it would sure be nice if we could either have no tariffs like all the foreign countries do, or the same tariffs, the big tariffs, not the little tiny tariffs,

but the big tariffs like the foreign countries. You know, Canada especially is imposing on the United States. I don't know why our exporters should be hit with and fifty percent tariffs and then the United States is not allowed to tariff back at all. I just don't get the fairness in that. So I don't know. We'll see how it shakes out. The President asked us to trust him. I know the stock market doesn't look like it's trusting him.

But nevertheless, that just presents buying opportunities. Willie. You know, every time I see Tesla stop drops drops some more. I think maybe now is the time I'll finally invest in Tesla. But these days, the S and P five hundred down, that's great time. It's really tough to beef up the four oh one k's and any retirement savings because now when you can buy a discount, and when this all does come around, because it always does come around,

the stock market never stays down forever. When it does come back around, everybody that's got money that they're putting in now we'll be making money hand over fist.

department and the Boone County Police Department. They used to have separate police and sheriff's departments in Boone County like we do here in Kenton, but they combined it out there in Boone County, and the police department merged into the Sheriff's office. And I don't know that it ever would have gone nearly as well as it did if it weren't Mike Helming in command. And so the hats off to Sheriff Hellming, and thank you for all his

years of service. He's done a fantastic job. But Gary Moore, the Bon County Judge executive, just announced a couple days ago that he's appointing Sheriff helmers right hand man is chief Deputy and good friend Less Hill to go from the number two man to the number one man. And congratulations to Less, who will be the first new Boom County sheriff in decades. And I know that there's no more qualified person for the job than Sheriff helmc's right

hand man. So two good men. Best wishes to Sheriff Hellmg and his retirement, and best of luck to Less as he takes over a very fine law enforcement agent.