The woman who allegedly led police on a 40 mile chase in a stolen bucket truck has been indicted in the murder of a Lexington man as well as several other charges.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that Vanessa Napier was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday for the murder of 53-year-old John Sharp. Preliminary autopsy results say Sharp was stabbed multiple times in the chest.

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Sharp’s body was discovered when officers conducted a welfare check at the home. The day before, police say Napier had led detectives on a 40-mile pursuit on I-75  in a bucket truck she stole from a gas station off the Athens-Boonesboro exit in Fayette County. Napier was charged with second-degree wanton endangerment for allegedly dragging the driver of the bucket truck, driving under the influence, first-degree robbery, fleeing and evading police, operating on a suspended license, first-degree wanton endangerment and criminal mischief.

Upon further investigation, detectives charged Vanessa Napier with murder and tampering with physical evidence in the death of Sharp.

Napier remains in the Fayette County Detention Center.

An arrest has been in connection to the death of a UK grad, Kendra Hatcher, who was gunned down in the parking garage of her high rise in Dallas, Texas last week.

The senseless crime shocked everyone who knew her, including LEX18’s Kristen Pflum, who went to Depauw University with Hatcher.

“I didn’t see the headline at the time I just saw her face and I thought ‘Kendra, I haven’t seen her in a while'”, said Pflum.

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After graduating from UK’s College of Dentistry, Hatcher moved to Dallas where police said she was followed into her apartment building’s garage. She was shot and killed as she was getting out of her car.

“I never ever would’ve thought something like this would happen to her,” said Pflum.

Shortly after Dallas Police released pictures of a Jeep fleeing the crime scene, they arrested Crystal Cortes and charged her with capital murder.

But according to court documents, the 23 year-old told investigators she wasn’t the one who pulled the trigger and that she and another man were hired to rob Hatcher.

“I couldn’t wrap my head around it and much less think of any reason why someone would want to do that to her,” said Pflum.

Cortes also told police the woman who was going to pay them $500 in exchange for Hatcher’s license was an ex-girlfriend of the man Hatcher was currently dating.

Meanwhile, friends are still trying to make sense of the crime.

“It’s not going to be the same without her,” Pflum said. “She was really making impact in what she did.”

As for the mystery man who Cortes said pulled the trigger, Dallas Police haven’t released any information about him.

Police are also not saying where the ex-girlfriend is or if she will be arrested.

Kentucky State Police troopers and detectives conducted a drug roundup in Bell County Wednesday morning. So far 15 people have been arrested.

The arrests are the result of a nine-month long drug investigation of the sale of crack cocaine, methamphetamine and prescription medications.

Steve Allen, 35, of Blackmont, Amber Goins, 18 of Dunlop Hill, Bonnie baker, 26, Pamela Goins, 45, of, Irene White, 38, William Ledford, 52, Earl Carroll, 42, Michael Nash, 50, Brain Patterson, 29, Lisa Reed, 50, and Stacey Sparks, all from Middlesboro, have been arrested for first-degree trafficking of a controlled substance.

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Deana Stevens, 35 and Charlotte Hunley, 47, both from Blackmont, along with Sheena Philpot, 31 of Pineville, have been arrested for first and second-degree trafficking of a controlled substance.

Michael Green, 39 of Middlesboro was arrested for trafficking a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a school and third-degree trafficking of a controlled substance.

Investigators in Wolfe County say a man shot his ex-wife then took off on a tractor.

State Police said Blanche Creech, 53, was shot in the chest on Wednesday morning on her property along Sandy Ridge outside of Campton.

Her friend, Donald Alexander said the victim was able to travel about a mile to his place on Kentucky 15 North.

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“I just heard her beat on the door and then I got up and I went and opened it and she was laying on the porch,” Alexander told LEX 18’s Josh Breslow.

Alexander said his friend couldn’t tell him much before she was flown to UK Hospital.

“Just said she’d been shot. He shot her,” Alexander said.

The victim’s ex-husband, Teddy Creech is accused of shooting her, then taking off on a tractor. State Police said the 61-year-old suspect was still on that tractor when he was arrested. He is charged with first-degree assault.

A possible motive for the shooting remains under investigation.

As of Wednesday evening, Blanche Creech remained in critical condition at UK Hospital.

Lexington police have arrested a woman accused in a sexual abuse case.

According to the arrest citation, Kayla Brown, 19, was working as an intern at a school run by a church in Fayette County. Investigators say she subjected a child there to sexual contact.

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Police charged Brown with first degree sexual abuse.