Which court docket or case number involves Judge Caldwell and an in-court arrest?
Executive summary
The provided reporting does not identify any single court docket or case number that pairs “Judge Caldwell” with an in-court arrest; available documents mention a defendant named Caldwell who was arrested in 2005 and a federal judge named Karen K. Caldwell, but no source links an in-court arrest to a docket number involving Judge Caldwell [1] [2] [3]. Because the search results mix people and places named “Caldwell,” the public record needed to answer the question directly — a docket/case number showing an in-court arrest involving a Judge Caldwell — is absent from the supplied material [1] [2].
1. The defendant named “Caldwell” in federal DOJ reporting is not shown as being arrested in a judge’s courtroom and no docket is cited
A U.S. Department of Justice press release describes a person identified as “Caldwell” who was arrested August 18, 2005 in connection with social‑security and identity fraud, and who was later sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ricardo S. Martinez; that release does not supply a federal docket or case number tying an in-court arrest to any Judge Caldwell [1].
2. Federal Judge Karen K. Caldwell appears in the sources as a sitting jurist but no case or arrest is linked to her in the provided records
Biographical and court pages list the Hon. Karen K. Caldwell as a U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky, but those pages do not reference any matter where she presided over or was directly associated with an in-court arrest, nor do they provide case numbers of that nature in the supplied materials [2] [3].
3. Multiple “Caldwell” court jurisdictions create a high risk of conflating unrelated records
Search results returned county court pages and municipal court information for jurisdictions named Caldwell (Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas, New Jersey, etc.), which are administrative resources for accessing records but contain no single case citation linking a Judge Caldwell to an in-court arrest in the provided excerpts; this dispersion of similarly named institutions increases the chance of misattribution if one assumes all “Caldwell” hits refer to the same person or event [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9].
4. What the sources do show — and what they do not
The DOJ press release documents an arrest of a defendant surnamed Caldwell and subsequent federal prosecution details but omits a docket number in the supplied snippet and shows sentencing by Judge Martinez rather than Judge Caldwell [1]. The federal court biographical material confirms Judge Karen K. Caldwell’s judicial role but does not present any case docket or narrative of an in-court arrest involving her [2] [3]. Therefore, the available corpus proves neither the existence nor the docket identifier of an “in‑court arrest” involving a Judge Caldwell.
5. Alternative explanations and investigative next steps
Given the absence of a docket number in these sources, plausible alternatives include: the arrest could be a local/county matter recorded under a different name or docket system (county clerks hold those records) [4] [10], the arrest could be recorded under a defendant’s different legal name, or reporting may have conflated the defendant’s surname with a judge’s name; to resolve this, consult the relevant clerk’s office for the courthouse where the alleged in-court arrest occurred or search PACER/ federal dockets for Judge Karen K. Caldwell’s listed cases — actions not possible within the scope of the provided documents [4] [2].
6. Transparency about limits, and potential agendas in source selection
The supplied set mixes national DOJ releases with local court landing pages and a judge bio; that heterogeneous curation can implicitly steer readers toward assuming a connection that isn’t documented here, an outcome that favors sensational linkage over careful verification [1] [4] [2]. The reporting available does not supply the single factual hinge — a docket/case number — needed to answer the question definitively, and so any firm assertion beyond what these sources state would exceed what the documentation supports [1] [2].