Tessica Nelson, 31, of Gilbertsville last week accepted a plea agreement to serve nine years in prison for the death of her 2-year-old daughter.

The Marshall County Tribune Courier reports that Nelson had been indicted by a Marshall County grand jury in July on charges related to the death of the toddler. Last week, Nelson pleaded guilty and accepted the Commonwealth’s offer to serve nine years in prison.

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The grand jury charged that on or about May 15, Nelson committed manslaughter 2nd degree, a class C felony, by administering a lethal dose of Benadryl to the 2-year-old.

The grand jury had also charged Nelson with tampering with physical evidence for allegedly deleting text messages with the intent to impair the availability of them in an official proceeding.

Per the Commonwealth’s offer, the tampering with physical evidence charge was dropped.

Nelson will return to Marshall County Circuit Court Dec. 7 for sentencing.

The case of a Rowan County man accused of shooting his brother will be sent to a grand jury.

The Rowan County Sheriff says Robert Jent shot and killed his brother Phillip on Tuesday night. Relatives say the two had fought for years over land, which led to the fatal argument at the family’s property along Cold Springs Hollow.

According to the sheriff, Robert claims he tried to shoot his brother in the arm to subdue him, but accidentally shot him in the chest.

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Several relatives tell LEX 18 they don’t believe him.

“It’s not self defense when you get in your vehicle, then you go down to somebody else’s home and you take a gun with you knowing what you’re taking that gun with you for,” said Georgina Reed, the victim’s niece.

No charges have been filed, but investigators say the case will be presented to the grand jury later this month.

The family of Phillip Jent is raising money for funeral expenses. To donate, you can click here.

An 18-year-old Radcliff teen has been arrested for complicity to commit murder and wanton endangerment after police say he fired shots in the direction of several children.

According to the News Enterprise, Keon Rashad Anderson was arrested around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday and is scheduled for a court appearance on the charges Friday.

The charges stem from a report of gunshots near an address in Hilltop Circle. Witnesses described hearing and seeing seven or eight gunshots fired from the front passenger window of a blue Mercury. According to the arrest citation, the shots were aimed in the direction of several children playing basketball in the area.

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One person was struck on the leg with non-life threatening injuries. It wasn’t immediately clear if the person shot was a child or adult.  Witnesses told police that the suspect vehicle fled the scene.

Officers pulled the vehicle over and arrested Anderson and an unnamed juvenile.

The juvenile has also been charged with fleeing or evading police and possession of a handgun by a minor.

Anderson is being held in the Hardin County Detention Center in lieu of a $75,000 cash bond.

Deputies have now confirmed that a person of interest in two missing women has been taken into custody in McDowell County.

Public Information Assistant Richelle Bailey of the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office said Cecil Scott Byrd, 41, of Bad Creek Road, Bakersville, was arrested on an outstanding warrant. He was transported to the McDowell County Jail for questioning as of deadline Wednesday.

A concerned Tottenville woman took to social media to search for her missing brother.

Christopher Caliendo, 26, was last seen leaving his Tottenville home Monday night at approximately 11:30 p.m., and hasn’t been seen or heard from since.

His younger sister, Jessica Caliendo, told the Advance she went to the 123rd Precinct stationhouse to file a missing person report but officials told her he was old enough to be on his own, but if he didn’t return within three or four days to come back.

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“He just left the house and never came back,” she said. “We’re worried something happened to him.”

Caliendo is 6-foot-2, about 250 pounds with brown curly hair and a beard. He has a shamrock tattoo on his right shoulder. He was wearing a black zip-up hoodie and black sweat pants.

The man has not contacted family and friends and does not have a cellphone, Jessica said. He does not have a car and would likely be traveling by train or bus, Jessica’s Facebook post says.

“We checked the train stops from Tottenville, including Eltingville and Great Kills, and haven’t seen him,” she said.

Caliendo, she says, likes to hang out by the Country Donuts locations in Eltingville and Greenridge.

If anyone has seen Caliendo or might know where he is, contact Jessica at 347-337-3323.

Billings Police are asking for help in finding a 12-year-old Billings boy who didn’t return home on Monday.

Jessie Martinez is Hispanic, weighs 90 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing black shorts and white shoes.

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Anyone with any information on Jessie’s whereabouts should contact the Billings Police Department at 657-8200.

A police officer was shot while investigating a robbery. According the Richmond Mayor, the officer was shot at an apartment building on Ballard drive and has life threatening injuries. The shooting suspect was shot in the arm and the chest.

A police escort was set up to get the injured officer to UK Hospital as fast as possible.

The officer’s name is Daniel Ellis, he has been with the Richmond Police Department for seven years. He is still at UK hospital with life threatening injuries.

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This all started with an attempted personal robbery just before 7 a.m. at the Gulf Station on Main Street. The victim was able to get away and gave police a description of the suspect and the suspect’s vehicle.

That led the two officers to Ballard Street around 10:00 a.m. The two officers knocked on the door of Gregory Ratliff’s home, they were looking for Raleigh Sizemore in relation to the robbery. Ratliff let the officers in and told them he was home alone and that there were no guns in the home, according to the arrest citation, Ratliff later admitted both of those things were lies. Apparently before the officers arrived, Sizemore said that he had spent half his life in prison and wasn’t going back.

The citation says that Sizemore was in a bedroom with Rita Creech, he had a gun in his hand. When Officer Ellis crossed the threshold into the room, Sizemore shot him.

The second officer shot Sizemore, that officer was not injured.

25-year-old Gregory Ratliff has been charged with complicity to commit murder of a police officer. He was uninjured and is in the Madison County Detention Center.

Rita Creech, 44, has been charged with the robbery and is in the Madison County Detention Center.

Sizemore, 34, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and unlawful imprisonment.

“There really aren’t any words to try to put on what it’s like to have a fellow colleague and somebody that you know and work with in a small community suffering from these kinds of injuries and being at the hospital,” KSP Trooper Robert Purdy said in a press conference. “It really just is a scary thing.”

The Rowan County Sheriff says a fight between two brothers took a deadly turn. It happened along Cold Springs Hollow Tuesday night.

Deputies investigating the case say Robert Jent told them he didn’t mean to fatally shoot his brother Phillip. Robert told deputies that he got into a fight with Phillip and was trying to shoot his brother in the arm to subdue him. But the bullet hit Phillip in the chest and killed him.

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51 year old Phillip Jent was the owner of Jent’s Garage near the shooting scene. Family members say the brothers had been involved in a property dispute for years and this was the end result.

“It’s not self defense when you get in your vehicle, then you go down to somebody else’s home and you take a gun with you knowing what you’re taking that gun with you for,” said Phillip’s niece Georgina Reed.

So far no charges have been filed and deputies say the case will be presented to a grand jury later this month to see if Robert Jent will be charged.

The former pastor of a Louisville, Kentucky, parish was charged by grand jury Indictment today with violating federal child exploitation laws, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.

The Indictment charges Stephen Pohl, age 57, with knowingly accessing, via the Internet, with intent to view material that contained images of child pornography between January and August 2015.

Pohl was initially charged with the same offense by criminal complaint on August 21, 2015. The complaint was filed after law enforcement officials executed two federal search warrants on August 12, 2015, in the work and living areas used by Pohl in the parish office and rectory of St. Margaret Mary Catholic Community, located at 7813 Shelbyville Road, in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Law enforcement officials arrested Pohl in Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, on Friday evening, August 21, 2015. Pohl was then held at the Pinellas County Jail until his transfer to the custody of the United States Marshals Service. He appeared in United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky on September 2, 2015.

If convicted, Pohl faces maximum potential penalties of 10 years in prison, a $250,000.00 fine and at least five years of Supervised Release.

Assistant United States Attorney Jo E. Lawless is prosecuting the case. The Federal Bureau of Investigation in conjunction with Louisville Metro Police Department’s Crimes Against Children Unit conducted the investigation.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab “resources.”

Lexington Police found a man suffering from what looked like stab wounds. Officers spotted him around 11:30 Tuesday night on Race street.

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Police say they saw a window at a home busted out and when they went to investigate, they found a man who had been cut several times and some of his wounds were severe. Police say the victim was not cooperative, so at this point in the investigation officers aren’t sure if the man was stabbed or somehow went through the front window.
He was taken to UK Hospital and is expected to make a recovery.