By Macee Swafford

The Times-Tribune

KNOX COUNTY, Ky. — Knox County EMS Director Steven Jones had his contract with the ambulance service terminated last Friday, just days after he was arrested on a DUI charge following a crash involving an EMS vehicle on Paynes Creek Road.

Steven W. Jones, 60, of Hinkle, was arrested last Wednesday after officers responded to a wreck near the intersection of Paynes Creek Road and KY 1304. The citation stated that dispatch had received a call around 8:08 p.m. from Jones himself, who admitted to having been drinking and needing someone to work the wreck.

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When Knox sheriff’s deputies arrived, they reported detecting a strong odor of alcohol and observed damage to the passenger side of t

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