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Nicholas principal charged with assault

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By Shawntaye Hopkins - shopkins@herald-leader.com

The Nicholas County High School principal who was suspended after an altercation with a student last week has been charged with fourth-degree assault, Montgomery County jail officials said.

Joe Orazen

Joseph Orazen, 35, of Carlisle was released from the Montgomery County jail on a $7,500 cash bond Wednesday evening. He is scheduled to appear in court March 4.

Reached at his home Thursday morning, Orazen said, “It’s not what it looks like.” He said that at some point it will all come out. Orazen declined to comment further.

On Wednesday, Nicholas County schools released a statement saying Orazen had been suspended. Orazen had been on administrative leave since last week, shortly after the altercation with Nicholas County High School student Dusty Green, 15.

School officials declined to discuss any details about Orazen’s suspension. District officials released a statement saying, “Mr. Joe Orazen is suspended, and he has a right to request a hearing from the Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education.”

Green was suspended for 10 days after the incident, according to his mother, Michelle Green of Carlisle.

Green said Thursday that she expected a more serious charge. But now that Orazen has been criminally charged, she wants him prohibited from being around children.

“I’d like for him to be convicted,” she said.

Harrison County Attorney Charles Kuster, who has been appointed special prosecutor, said the evidence presented to him, including bruises and abrasions, and the fact that no weapon was involved resulted in the fourth-degree assault charge.

On Tuesday, WLEX-TV (Channel 18) released surveillance footage, saying it arrived in an unmarked package. The video shows a confrontation outdoors between a male student and a man, and WLEX reporters identified them as Orazen and Dusty Green. The footage shows the man wrapping his arms around the student, scooping him up and slamming him to the ground.

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‘Wrinkly’ man holds up Pita Pit

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By Steve Lannen - slannen@herald-leader.com

A man with a “wrinkly” face robbed the Pita Pit restaurant near the University of Kentucky campus Tuesday night.

Employees told police a man, possibly, in his 60s brandished a handgun and took money a little before 11:30 p.m. at the pita shop, 315 South Limestone.

Police say the man, described as a white man with a wrinkly face, fled on foot. He was wearing blue jeans and a gray hooded sweatshirt with red writing that possibly said East or West Jessamine softball.

Anyone with information is asked to call police (859) 258-3600.

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Missing Ky. girl, 9, found in Georgia

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Herald-Leader Staff Report

A 9-year-old Johnson County girl who police say was kidnapped by her mother and an aunt late last month has been found in Georgia.

Investigators say Alissa Castle’s mother, Pamela D. Castle, and her aunt, Bonnie Blair, took the girl from her legal guardian, Terecia Meade, Jan. 28.

They were arrested in Fannin County, Georgia, Feb. 15.

Castle is charged with kidnapping; Blair is charged with complicity to the kidnapping, said Lt. Thomas Wyatt of the Johnson County sheriff’s office.

The women also face several felony charges in Georgia related to “alleged acts occurring when they were taken into custody,” according to a press release from the sheriff’s office.

Alissa is in the custody of Georgia Family & Children’s Services.

Meade, the aunt who has had legal custody of her for several years, was on her way to Georgia Tuesday to be reunited with her.

The sheriff’s office had been in contact with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as police agencies in Georgia, Mississippi, Texas and Colorado, as part of their investigation.

Castle’s brother lives in Calhoun, Ga., Wyatt said.

He said the women had moved into a residence with the girl.

He said Patricia Castle had lost custody of Alissa because of “alleged continued drug use and violent behavior.”

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Danville man shot at party

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By Steve Lannen - slannen@herald-leader.com

A man was shot in the chest early Tuesday morning at a Danville party.

Gerald M. Hughes was taken to Ephraim McDowell Hospital and then transferred to the University of Kentucky hospital.

Police are investigating the shooting.

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Fort Campbell soldier charged with child abuse

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CLARKSVILLE — Police say a child who a Fort Campbell soldier is accused of severely abusing has died from his injuries.

Clarksville arrested 20-year-old Joshua Ryan Starner of Clarksville, Tenn., on Saturday after the 23-month-old boy was found unresponsive in his bed at the soldier’s home.

Police spokesman Jim Knoll said that the child died Sunday at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville.

Starner is currently charged with aggravated child abuse and Knoll said homicide charges are pending.

His bond was set at $1 million. Starner is listed as a specialist corporal in the Army. He did not have an attorney listed in jail records on Sunday.

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Argument over cigarettes turns deadly

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By Steve Lannen - slannen@herald-leader.com

A caregiver in a Montgomery County veterans home was stabbed and killed Monday night, apparently in a dispute over cigarettes.

Darrell Neeley, 51, died from stab wounds caused by a pocketknife, Montgomery County Coroner Wallace Johnson said.

Kenneth Eugene Brasiel, 55, was charged with murder and lodged in the Montgomery County jail.

The stabbing occurred about 7:30 p.m. at a community care residency home for VA patients at 100 Yeller Hoss Lane, Montgomery sheriff Fred Shortridge said.

The stabbing stemmed from an apparent confrontation over cigarettes, the sheriff said.

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Police: Bleach weapon of choice in store robbery

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By Steve Lannen - slannen@herald-leader.com

Police say suspects in a robbery Sunday night used bleach  as a weapon during a cigarette heist.

The robbery occurred a little before 11 p.m., when four males entered the Convenient market, 1116 Winburn Dr., threw bleach on the manager and then stole cartons of cigarettes, said Lexington Police Lt. Fred Lisanby.

The store employee did not go to the hospital.

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Fight between brothers-in-law turns deadly

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State police say a man beat his brother-in-law to death early Monday morning in Jackson County.

Virgil Abner, 32, was found dead at a home on U.S. 421 in McKee after an apparent altercation with Vernon Adkins, 33, according to a Kentucky State Police press release.

At about 2 a.m., Abner apparently cut Adkins with a knife and Adkins then beat him with his fists causing his death, Trooper Chris Lanham said.

An autopsy was scheduled for Monday. The case will be presented to a grand jury, according to the release.

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Jessamine man held in fatal beating, Carlisle woman was killed at farm

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By Brandon Ortiz
bortiz@herald-leader.com

A Jessamine County man was charged Monday with murder and burglary in connection with the beating death of a Carlisle woman who was staying at a relative’s farm off Paris Pike in Lexington.

Gary T. Stone, 31, was charged Monday with murder, first-degree assault and first-degree burglary. He was being held in the Jessamine County jail.

Stone was arrested Saturday morning in Jessamine County on an unrelated arrest warrant. Lexington police obtained a murder warrant on Monday.

Stone is accused of fatally beating Pauline Mastin, 43, who was staying at a relatives home at 567 Muir Station Road, the location of Fair Trial Farm.

Lt. James Curless said a security guard at a neighboring farm saw a vehicle leaving Fair Trial Farm some time after 4:30 a.m. Since it’s odd for a vehicle to be out at that hour, the guard wrote down a description of the vehicle and its license plate number.

“It gave us a significant investigative lead,” Curless said.

Curless said the suspect broke into the home and assaulted Mastin and her brother, farm manager Bart Mastin.

Bart Mastin was taken to the University of Kentucky hospital with serious but not life- threatening injuries.

Curless called Pauline Mastin “a truly innocent victim.”

Reach Brandon Ortiz at (859) 231-1443 or 1-800-950-6397, Ext. 1443.

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Two charged with attempted murder in Danville

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Two people face attempted murder charges after a confrontation Sunday in Danville, authorities said.

Shawn L. Brodeur, 32, and Anne N. Brodeur, 31, were arrested Sunday after an alleged beating and shooting at 1008 Plainview Drive, according to a Danville Police press release.

They are accused of assaulting Chaz Young, the boyfriend of Shawn Brodeur’s sister. They struck him with a baseball bat and Shawn Brodeur fired a round inside the residence, according to police.

Young was treated at the scene by paramedics, and told police he was going to the hospital on his own, according to police.

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