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Brother of woman found in trunk arraigned

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Herald-Leader Staff Report

The Georgetown man whose wheelchair-dependent sister’s mummified body was found in the trunk of his car has pleaded not guilty to charges in the case.

Timothy Allen Brown, 30, was arrested in October after investigators found his sister’s body. A Scott County grand jury indicted Brown in January and he was arraigned Friday in Scott Circuit Court on charges of abuse or neglect of an adult, tampering with physical evidence, eight counts of theft of over $300, endangering the welfare of a minor and abuse of a corpse. He pleaded not guilty.


Penny Brown’s body, wrapped in quilts and industrial plastic, was so badly decomposed that the state medical examiner’s office was unable to determine a cause of death. The body might have been in Timothy Brown’s apartment for up to two years, police said. Brown signed his sister out of a nursing home in 2006.

Penny Brown had stopped using her food stamps and didn’t use her medical card after she left Georgetown Healthcare, according to police reports. Investigators say Timothy Brown had been cashing his disabled sister’s Social Security Income checks, which amounted to $600 to $700 a month.

Brown is scheduled to return to court March 6 for a status hearing.

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Hearing rescheduled in mummified body case

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on November 13, 2008
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By Shawntaye Hopkins

GEORGETOWN — A hearing for the man whose wheelchair-dependent sister’s mummified body was found in his car trunk was postponed Thursday because he has obtained private counsel.

Timothy Allen Brown’s attorney was not present during his preliminary hearing in Scott District Court, so the hearing was rescheduled for 1:30 p.m. Nov. 20. Brown previously had been represented by public defender Doug Crickmer.

Brown, 30, pleaded not guilty Nov. 6 in Scott District Court to knowingly abusing or neglecting an adult, a felony, and endangering the welfare of a minor, a misdemeanor related to his 8-year-old son.

Police said the boy was removed from Brown’s apartment in September after social workers found filthy conditions there.

Investigators found 31-year-old Penny Brown’s body when they towed her brother’s car to Georgetown from St. Louis, more than 300 miles away. Someone complained that the car had been left on a street for days.

Penny Brown’s body, wrapped in quilts and industrial plastic, was so decomposed the state medical examiner’s office was unable to determine a cause of death. The body might have been in Timothy Brown’s apartment in Georgetown for up to two years, police said.

Brown signed his sister out of a nursing home in 2006.

Penny Brown had stopped using her food stamps and she didn’t use her medical card after she left Georgetown Healthcare, according to police reports.

Investigators say Timothy Brown had been cashing his disabled sister’s Social Security Income checks, which amounted to $600 to $700 a month.

Friends and neighbors told police they had never seen Penny Brown at her brother’s house. Her father told investigators he last spoke with her last December.

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Man in Scott County caught with 3 pounds of pot in glove compartment

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Steve Lannen
on November 12, 2008
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From Kentucky State Police:

On Tuesday night, November 11, 2008 a Kentucky State Police Trooper assigned to Scott County located 3 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop.

Tpr. Derran Broyles observed a pickup truck being driven by a male not wearing his seat belt. Tpr. Broyles stopped the vehicle and smelled a strong odor of marijuana. A license check showed that the driver Francisco S. Gonzalez was unlicensed. The driver was arrested and 3 pounds of marijuana was located in the front vehicle compartment.

Mr. Gonzalez was lodged in the Scott County Jail and charged with No Seat Belt, No Operators License and Trafficking in Marijuana. Mr. Gonzalez is also being held on an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer.

The Kentucky State Police encourages the public to report any suspected drug activity to our anonymous drug tip-line at 1-800-DOPETIP.

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Newspaper staffer’s cousins are main players in mummified body case

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on October 31, 2008
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Maggie Greene says she knows about poverty and unconditional love.

And now the 22-year-old journalist - an intern for The State Journal - knows firsthand what it’s like being on the family end of a horrible news story.

For almost five years when she was a child, Greene lived in Owen County with her cousins Penny Michelle Brown and Tim Brown, who made national news this week.

Read the full story in the Frankfort State Journal

On Oct. 24, Penny Brown’s mummified body was found in the trunk of her brother’s car.

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Marshals arrest brother of woman found in trunk

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on October 29, 2008
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By Sarah Vos
svos@herald-leader.com

GEORGETOWN — Investigators have arrested a Georgetown man whose sister’s body was found mummified last week in the trunk of his car.

Timothy Allen Brown, 30, was arrested Tuesday evening in St. Louis at a public library, Georgetown police Chief Greg Reeves said at a Wednesday morning news conference.

Reeves said Brown was found by U.S. Marshals and the St. Louis police who searched the area where his car was found late last week.

On Friday, the severely decomposed body of Brown’s 31-year-old sister, Penny, was discovered after police towed Brown’s 1998 Chevy Malibu from St. Louis to Kentucky. They had received complaints that it had been on the street for several days.

Investigators obtained a search warrant to look in the car for any clues about Timothy’s or Penny’s whereabouts. Upon receiving the warrant Friday, police unlocked the trunk and found Penny Brown’s “badly decomposed” body, which was wrapped in blankets — an attempt to conceal the decomposition, Reeves said — and bagged with industrial-grade plastic, possibly to contain the odor, he said.

Police have said that Timothy Brown signed his wheelchair-bound sister out of a Georgetown nursing home in 2006, and was cashing the disabled woman’s Social Security Income checks, which were between $600 and $700 per month. Reeves said during Wednesday’s news conference that the remains may have been in his apartment for two years. It isn’t clear how she died.

While Penny Brown might have been dead for two years, Reeves said no missing person report was made until Sept. 20.

Reeves said they think her body was in a back bedroom of Timothy Brown’s apartment. They found evidence consistent with that when they searched the apartment on Tuesday, Reeves said.

Timothy Brown is the father of an 8-year-old son, whom the state removed from the Georgetown apartment around the time that the missing person’s investigation began. Reeves said Timothy Brown disappeared shortly after that.

Investigators think the body was in the apartment when the child was in the home. Investigators say Timothy Brown then put the body in the car and fled.

“We believe that the body was moved to the vehicle at some point after the child was removed from the home,” Reeves said Wednesday.

Brown is up for an extradition hearing today.

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