Former UK basketball player, former AppHarvest CEO arrested.

 Somerset, Kentucky. (SPCA) - A former UK basketball player was arrested in Lexington over the weekend. In an arrest citation, Lexington police say Ramel “Smooth” Bradley was trespassing at an apartment complex on Red Mile Road when he allegedly got into a physical altercation with a security official. According to the citation, investigators discovered Bradley in possession of marijuana while he was operating a vehicle without a legal license. About thirty-five minutes after the officers arrived on the site, Bradley was taken into custody. According to Kentucky Court of Justice documents, he was accused of criminal trespassing, possessing marijuana, resisting arrest, having no driver's license, and engaging in disorderly conduct.

Bradley played 130 games for the Wildcats between 2004 and 2008. Bradley went on to play professionally for parts of nine seasons in Croatia, France, Türkiye, and Israel. It was during his playing days in Kentucky. Bradley also helped to found AppHarvest, a sustainable food producer developing and running some of the world’s largest high-tech indoor farms with robotics and artificial intelligence to build a reliable, climate-resilient food system. He also served on the Kentucky State Board of Agriculture and serves on the Ag Tech Task Force, a coalition of 20 organizations in the US and the Netherlands focused on developing Kentucky’s agricultural technology sector. 

AppHarvest got a lot of attention—from national media, politicians, and investors. But then, in July 2023, the company filed for bankruptcy. In July 2023, as the dust settled in recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, a new controlled environment agriculture company, Bosch Growers, secured AppHarvest’s 30-acre farm facility in Somerset, Ky, in October 2023. The acquisition marks Bosch Growers’ expansion into the U.S. market. Bosch Growers, a family-owned Dutch company, has formally acquired the 30-acre berry and cucumber-growing greenhouse for $44 million.