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A Laurel County man used books to set two fires in his girlfriend’s house less than an hour after getting out of jail, said a London Police detective.
Stephen McWilliams, 28, was charged with second degree arson for the fires he’s accused of setting at a house on N. Mill Street in London before 1 a.m. Wednesday morning.
Investigators found three books on the kitchen stove with the burners turned on high as well as an overturned refrigerator that was blocking the entrance to the kitchen.
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“This is one of those you normally don’t see as obvious as what it was,” said London Police Sergeant Gary Proffitt, who added that the fire damage was contained to the kitchen.
Sgt. Proffitt told LEX 18 that the 911 call came less than an hour after McWilliams bonded out of the Laurel County Detention Center for an alcohol intoxication charge.
Steven Hood, a neighbor who called 911 after seeing smoke, said McWilliams first went to jail for a fight between him and his girlfriend that Hood tried to break up.
“He said ‘I’m calling the cops on you for breaking in here,'” said Hood. “I said ‘Buddy, I don’t think it’s going to look too good for you. I think you’re going to jail.'”
Hood remembers seeing McWilliams return to his house only to leave a little while later with some of his belongings. The neighbor saw smoke a few minutes later and then heard a blown transformer.
“It sounded like a grenade going off,” said Hood. “It was bad.”
McWilliams was arrested around 4:30 Wednesday morning. The suspect told investigators that he went to the house and removed property but said he never went inside, said Sgt. Proffitt.
“This probably ranks the quickest I’ve seen somebody get out {of jail} and go right back,” said Sgt. Proffitt. “If you go the first time you probably need to figure out what you’re doing and don’t go back the second time.”
LEX 18 reached out to McWilliams from the Laurel County Detention Center for his side of the story but he declined our interview request.
A trip to the store to get school supplies took a terrifying turn in Harrison County early Thursday morning when two sisters were hit by a car.
12-year-old Chantelle Napier and her 20-year-old sister, Chelsea Napier were walking along U.S. 27 in Cynthiana on their way home from Walmart around 3:30 a.m. That’s when a vehicle slammed into them from behind.
The two were transported by ambulance to UK Hospital, where they remained as of Thursday evening.
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“It was just crazy. Just wouldn’t think it would happen,” the victims’ cousin, Jessica Yarnell told LEX 18. “I know accidents happen. I’m sure he feels horrible about it, but I don’t know. I guess I can’t hate him for it or nothing because it could’ve happened to anybody.”
According to Cynthiana Police, the driver had just left work, when he fell asleep and veered off the road, striking the two sisters.
“Right now, there doesn’t appear to be any charges,” said Sgt. Wilbur Gross with the Cynthiana Police Department. “Looks like it was just an accident. He didn’t do anything malicious or anything like that.”
While both victims suffered broken legs and Chantelle Napier has a collapsed lung, their family said they are grateful the outcome was not any worse.
“It makes me feel better that it’s not as bad as it could have been. It could’ve been worse,” Yarnell said. “Just hoping they recover pretty quick and get to come home soon.”
Family members and police have said both sisters are expected to fully recover.
Officials in Bath County say that they have found a missing 10-year-old boy and that he is safe.
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The EMS director says the boy, Timothy (TJ) Anderson, was last seen at about 8 a.m. Thursday wearing Spiderman pajamas and t-shirt and barefoot running away from his foster home in the Pickshein road area just outside of Owingsville.
Officials say they have not yet said where the boy was located.
A Clark County man accused of murdering a Winchester woman pleaded not guilty in the case Thursday.
39-year-old Lonnie Martin is accused of killing 25-year-old Kyla Kline after investigators believe he picked her up in his van as she walked along a downtown Winchester street in early July.
Last Sunday, Montgomery County authorities found her body buried on a farm. Her cause of death, still to be determined.
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Records show Martin served ten years of a 15-year sentence for assaulting a woman in Estill County in 1997.
Martin was originally charged with rape, but the charge was dismissed. According to court documents, Martin cut the victim with a box cutter causing serious physical injury. What stands out in the 1997 case is how police say Martin approached the victim. They say he offered her a ride to a friend’s house, then went elsewhere with her and assaulted her.
On Sunday, police seized Martin’s van. According to their search warrant, they were looking for documents, cell phones, clothing, blood, bodily fluids, hair and anything that would pertain to murder and tampering with physical evidence in the disappearance and killing of Kyla Kline.
Police are waiting on autopsy results before releasing how Kyla Kline died.
Martin is set to be in court again August 7.
The Florence Police is asking for help in locating a 31 year old male who has been missing since Thursday July 25th. Gregory Michael Hughes of Florence has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic who is currently not taking his medication.
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Mr. Hughes is described as thin build, 6-0 tall and weighs around 150 lbs. He has brown curly hair, blues eye and wears glasses. He left his home on foot. If anyone has information to the whereabouts of Michael Hughes they are asked to contact the Florence KY Police Department at 647-5420.
After sending her mother two text messages that read, “I’m scared” and “…”, former town resident Dana Bonanno disappeared from her Brooklyn home.
New York City police are investigating the missing person case while friends and family of the 33-year-old Carmel High School graduate are doing all they can to publicize the disappearance in the hopes of learning more about her fate.
“This is so surreal,” mother Donna O’Connor said of her missing daughter. “It’s like you’re talking about somebody else.”
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Bonanno was last seen the night of July 22 by her roommates. She went to a nearby store, asking her roommates before she went if they wanted anything, and then returning with the supplies, O’Connor said. She later left the apartment for good.
“At some point (in the night) she left. They just don’t know when,” O’Connor said of the roommates. “Her purse was the only thing she took.”
O’Connor said her daughter had tried to get in touch with her that night.
“She had called me twice and texted me a little after 11, saying ‘I’m scared,’” O’Connor said, adding that when she asked her daughter why, the only text she received in return was “…”
Bonanno hasn’t been heard from since. Her cell phone also appears to have run out of batteries, with calls being routed directly to voicemail, her mother said.
Although it had been a year since she had seen her daughter, the two kept in touch through texts and telephone calls, O’Connor said. Recently, Bonanno had grown upset, having been laid off from her job with a television company in May.
Bonanno also had confided in friends about the layoff and its effect on her.
“She definitely was sad about that,” said friend Liz Rivera, 32, of Manhattan.
But Bonanno also was part of a Brooklyn music crowd that hosts events across the borough featuring house and electronic music, making her a regular at those events every weekend, said Rivera, who became friends with Bonanno through that music scene.
“We’re all positive happy people,” Rivera said, adding that Bonanno’s disappearance has caught her friends by surprise. “It’s such a huge shock.”
Police say there is a new lead in the search for a missing northern Kentucky man.
Officers in Florence say the 31-year-old Gregory Hughes who has not been seen since last Thursday, left Cincinnati on a Greyhound bus Saturday and arrived in Seattle, Washington on Monday.
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They say he suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and is off his medication.
Investigators say they have been in contact with Seattle police to help locate Hughes.
A 28-year-old woman is facing fraud charges after she admitted to participating in a staged car crash, according to the Florida Division of Insurance Fraud.
Irina Garcia Veiga of suburban West Palm Beach also faces a charge of larceny. The division of insurance fraud said Veiga, 42-year-old Barbaro Montes De Oca and 48-year-old Vivian Morales Torres participated in a planned crash June 22, 2010 around 9 p.m.
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According to authorities, Veiga was driving a 2005 Buick on Lake Avenue near Forest Hill Boulevard in West Palm Beach and hit a vehicle in front of her. Torres was a passenger in the car.
Veiga began treatment for injuries at Healthcare R Us in Palm Springs even though she didn’t have any injuries, according to a probable-cause affidavit.
Authorities interviewed Veiga on March 20, when she gave a full confession. She admitted that even though she wasn’t injured from the crash, she was treated at the Palm Springs location of Healthcare R Us. Infinity Auto Insurance was billed for 38 treatments. Veiga said she didn’t attend treatment 38 times, as she has a child at home and didn’t have time to go to the facility. She said she was paid $2,500 in cash for her participation in the wreck. The insurance company was billed more than $9,000 in fraudulent claims.
The affidavit did not describe Montes De Oca’s involvement in the wreck.
All three defendants were released from the Palm Beach County Jail Friday after each posted a $13,000 bond, jail records show.
A mother and father are accused of robbing and dragging a woman down the road at least 100 feet in Estill County.
A woman says she became the victim of a crime when she thought the couple was giving her a ride, but instead was robbed and dragged down the road by them.
Recovered from road rash, the victim, who doesn’t want to be identified, says she thought Chad and Rachel Crouch were going to give her a ride, but instead…
“She just grabbed my hand with the money in it,” she said. “She said, go, go, floor it.”
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The victim says she was dragged at least 100 feet down Little Buck Creek Road.
She says there were two small children in the back seat of the car, that she believed to the Crouch’s.
“They were little,” the woman said.
But that didn’t stop the couple from robbing the woman.
“She just grabbed my hand with the money in it and dragged me down the gravel road,” she said. “She had a hold of my wrist until she could get the money out of my hand, then she let me go,”
“Neither one of them cared that they dragged me or whatever, they kept on going.”
The area is isolated, so the victim says she called for help herself. Police caught up with the couple in Bath County. They’re charged with robbery first degree, wanton endangerment and endangering the welfare of a minor.
“I don’t understand how anybody could do that,” the woman said