James Shannon Farthing, the Georgetown, Kentucky, man who claimed a state-record $167.3 million Powerball jackpot in April 2025, was arrested again early Sunday, September 20, 2026 — his fifth booking since the win.

Scott County deputies were called just before 3 a.m. after a motorist reported a white Ford Mustang with a temporary tag stopped in the middle of an intersection in Georgetown, about 15 miles north of Lexington. The caller said the car then pulled into a Walmart parking lot near the electric-vehicle chargers.

When deputies arrived around 4 a.m., the Mustang was still running. Farthing, 51, was alone and asleep in the passenger seat. Officers knocked on the window repeatedly before he woke. They said he smelled of alcohol and marijuana, had bloodshot watery eyes, slurred speech and trouble keeping his balance. He told them a woman had driven him there and left; surveillance video did not show anyone exiting the car after it parked.

He was charged with alcohol intoxication in a public place and taken to Scott County Detention Center. The charge is pending in district court. His attorney declined comment.

Farthing and his mother, Linda Grizzle, posed with the oversized Kentucky Lottery check after buying a $2 ticket in Georgetown. He said he would split the prize with her and pay off debt. Within days he was arrested in St. Pete Beach, Florida, after a hotel-bar fight in which a deputy said Farthing kicked him in the face; body-camera video of that arrest was later released. Subsequent Kentucky cases included a reported $12,000 burglary and, in July 2026, charges of first-degree strangulation and fourth-degree assault after an argument following a boating trip. He pleaded not guilty to those counts and was placed on electronic monitoring.

The latest arrest does not involve a new felony. It does add another chapter to a public record that has followed Farthing from the lottery podium to booking photos — including the orange-jail mugshot now paired with the winning-check picture. The jackpot remains the largest Powerball prize ever paid in Kentucky. The legal cases continue.

Sources
People; New York Post; The Independent; LEX 18; WLKY; WHAS11; Scott County Sheriff’s Office citation as reported Sept. 20–22, 2026.