09/19/2026
CONVICTED! Brandon Meehan received 20 years in prison for assaulting his wife. This after the jury returned a guilty verdict following a 5 MINUTE deliberation!
We’d like to recognize the strong work by Officers Mason Smith, Matt Raabe, and Jackson Sora. Well done officers!
Special thanks to Assistant CAO Jordan Sherrow and Hannah Reese for their outstanding prosecution of the case and to CAO Detective Andrew Munson for the assist!
**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE**
JURY DELIBERATES JUST 5 MINUTES BEFORE GUILTY VERDICT!
COVINGTON - On September 17, 2026, at the conclusion of a three-day trial, a Kenton County jury deliberated for barely five minutes before finding Brandon Nicholas Meehan, 46, guilty of Assault 2nd Degree (Domestic Violence), Tampering With a Witness, and Intimidating a Participant in the Legal Process. All three crimes are felony offenses in Kentucky. At the conclusion of the sentencing phase of the trial, the same jury then recommended Meehan serve the maximum sentence of twenty years in prison.
On September 1, 2025, Covington Police responded to a domestic assault that occurred in the parking lot of the Dollar General. Officers encountered the 911 caller, Mary Meehan, who had fled into the store after being struck in the head by her husband, Brandon Meehan, who fled the scene. Officer Jackson Sora stopped the suspect as he was returning to the Dollar General. Brandon Meehan was arrested for the assault of his wife. In the months following his arrest Meehan contacted the victim hundreds of times and told her to change her story, tell prosectors and the Judge she lied, and to avoid being subpoenaed to court. When the victim stopped responding, Meehan directed numerous third parties to contact the victim and tell her not to come to court, or in the alternative, to say he never hit her.
Brandon Meehan was indicted for Assault in the Second Degree—Domestic Violence, Tampering With a Witness and Intimidating a Participant in the Legal Process. On September 15, 2026, a jury was empaneled before Judge Kathleen Lape in the Kenton Circuit Court. Jurors heard from numerous witnesses. The jury listened to the 911 call placed by the victim describing her husband striking her so hard in the head with a cellphone that she became incontinent before fleeing into the Family Dollar and hiding under the clerk’s desk until officers arrived. Officer Mason Smith described arriving on scene, encountering the victim and assessing her injuries before calling EMS. The jury heard from Covington Fire Department Paramedic Krisa Dyer and St. Elizabeth Nurse Jill Brummett about the victim’s injury, and the dangerousness of injuries to the head. Officers Jackson Sora and Matthew Rabbe described their interactions with Brandon Meehan, and the jury saw him deny striking his wife numerous times on their body-worn camera videos. Finally, Commonwealth’s Attorney Office Detective Andrew Munson outlined the months’ worth of jail communications placed by Meehan. The jury heard as Meehan contacted the victim numerous times and directed her to lie to prosecutors, the judge, and the jury if she was subpoenaed to testify. When the victim stopped answering the calls or blocked the the jail’s number, he directed numerous third parties to contact her on his behalf. The jury never heard from the victim who did not appear at trial despite being subpoenaed.
In closing arguments Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Hannah Reese acknowledged that domestic violence cases are not simple and pose a challenge for the prosecutors when the victim does not testify. Meehan had acknowledged this fact in numerous jail communications presented to the jury during trial. ACA Reese stood before the jury in closing arguments and asked them to follow their oaths and the evidence presented to them. “There is a belief amongst domestic abusers that if they can get their victims to recant, change their story, or not show up to court, that the case will be dismissed. This Defendant believed that no one would take his conduct seriously. The Commonwealth takes it very seriously and is now standing before you, asking you to do the same.”
The jury deliberated for a little over 5 minutes before returning guilty verdicts on all counts. The jury then recommended a 20-year prison sentence. “This jury made it very clear that assaulting your wife in broad daylight, in a public place, and then harassing her from the jail in order to avoid accountability will not be tolerated in this community,” said Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Jordan Sherrow, who co-counseled the prosecution. “The jury did not tolerate the Defendant’s abuse of our justice system any more than the abuse of his wife!” ACA Reese said.
Formal sentencing is set for November 9, 2026, at 9:00 am before Kenton Circuit Judge Kathleen Lape.
