The Creeches of Clement County, Kentucky are known as some of the baddest outlaws. The Cornbread Mafia in Kentucky also had a reputation for being rough and a prime target for law enforcement. As a young police officer, Stokes was assigned the midnight shift in Clement County. Two weeks into the job, his patrol partner, Shawn Morman, pointed out a little person named Londell Creech, the most dangerous man in the county. His partner rolled down the window and asked Londell for an update on his bull, to which Londell replied that he had died. He and his partner went to lunch at Poppa’s that day and Stokes expressed surprise at the fact that Morman was the leader of the Creeches. Morman told him not to underestimate him and the townspeople tell the young officer about how the group uses their disability to their advantage, guilting charities into building them houses and getting free things and stealing from local businesses. 

The first time that Stokes arrested a Creech, he was working the midnight shift when he came across Hobart Creech riding a bike and wearing only a bowler hat on a road and smoking a blunt. Stokes took him to jail where another inmate named Eddie Tremayne punched him unconscious. The next day, Tremayne’s house and truck were burned to the ground while both men remained in jail. When Tremayne left jail, he was never found again. 

In Stokes’ next encounter with the outlaws, they had robbed Poppa’s of his stove and griddle, meaning the cops wouldn’t have lunch the next day. A week after the burglary, Stokes was asked to come assist an arrest for speeding. The tall man, named Ronnie, pulled over quickly and said he was trying to “get out of this crazy county.” Ronnie was soaked head-to-toe and smelled like chemicals. He told the story of how he’d promised a man in jail that he would go pick up five pounds of weed from the Creech house. When he arrived at the house, he found a little man and woman smoking weed and slip-n’-sliding down a steep hill in coconut lube stolen from Poppa’s. Ronnie fell asleep and when he woke up he was wrapped in plastic and being pushed down the hill with the man sitting on his back. After he got to the base of the hill, Ronnie took off speeding out of the county. 

After letting Ronnie off with a warning, Stokes and his partner decide to try and use the statement to get a search warrant of the Creeches’ house. By 3 a.m., they had the warrant and they went to the house. When they find Hobart, he slips right past the two troopers and runs away to avoid arrest. He continues to slip through their fingers as they chase him around his property because Hobart is covered in lube. When they finally pin Hobart down, Londell Creech and other group members began to attack the two troopers. Finally, they get themselves free from the outlaws’ grips and the troopers take them in to jail. Stokes leaves with a sense of respect for the entire group as the hardest working outlaws he knows.