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Lexington man assaulted infant, police say

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on March 17, 2009

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A Lexington man has been charged with first-degree assault for allegedly injuring his 2½ -month-old daughter, police said.

David Allen Brumback

David Allen Brumback, 19, was charged Monday night after an investigation that began Sunday.

Police were asked to investigate a report of an unresponsive infant at University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital.

Investigators with the Crimes Against Children Unit and state Cabinet for Health and Family Services attempted to determine the origin of a head injury to the infant.

Brumback was charged based on interviews and medical findings, Lexington police said.

Ky. man charged with fathering child by daughter

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on March 12, 2009

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The Associated Press

A southern Kentucky man has been indicted on an incest charge for allegedly fathering a child with his daughter nearly two decades ago.

Pulaski County Sheriff’s detective Brett Whitaker told the Commonwealth Journal the case against the now 78-year-old man started in 2005 when officials investigated a neglect complaint about the child, who was born in 1991.

Whitaker said DNA confirmed the man was the child’s father and grandfather.

The Associated Press doesn’t name alleged victims of sex crimes and isn’t naming the man in this case to protect the daughter’s identity.

Whitaker told the Somerset newspaper the man admitted a sexual relationship from the time the daughter was 13 until she was in her 30s. The man was not immediately arrested as authorities sought him following the indictment last week. Whitaker said the woman is now in her 40s.

Fort Campbell soldier charged with child abuse

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on February 9, 2009

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The Associated Press

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.

Police: Adair woman poured hot candle wax on child

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By Bill Estep - bestep@herald-leader.com

An Adair County woman has been charged with abusing a 3-year-old boy by pouring hot candle wax on his leg, state police said.

Angelina D. Kinnett (WLEX)

Eddie Foster called the Kentucky State Police post in Columbia at 3:15 a.m. Friday and said his girlfriend, Angelina D. Kinnett, had abused his son, according to a news release.

A trooper and a social worker investigated and found that someone had placed the boy, Jay D. Foster, in a bathtub and poured hot wax on his leg from the knee down, according to the release.

He was taken to Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville for treatment.

Police charged Kinnett, 26, with first-degree criminal abuse.

Police are still investigating but don’t yet know the reason for the alleged attack, said Trooper Billy Gregory, spokesman for the Columbia KSP post.

Teen charged with poisoning grandfather

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LIBERTY — A grand jury has indicted a young Casey County woman, accusing her with lacing her grandfather’s coffee with automotive antifreeze.

Nineteen-year-old Brittany Ann Miller faces a charge of criminal attempt to commit murder.

WLEX-TV in Lexington reported Leonard Walls went to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Lexington, where he told a security officer he suspected his granddaughter was trying to kill him so she could inherit his money.

Authorities searched Walls’ home and found a jug of antifreeze that was half-empty along with two bags of rat poison.

The station quoted Walls saying he noticed his coffee had a sweeter taste to it when Miller brewed it.

The grand jury in Liberty returned the indictment on Friday.

Mother charged in fire that killed 2 children

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FORT CAMPBELL — A federal grand jury has charged a Fort Campbell soldier’s wife with setting a house fire on base that killed her two children.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Kentucky announced Tuesday that Billi Jo Smallwood has been charged with maliciously setting fire to her home in March 2007. She is also charged with attempting to destroy a residential facility for members of the U.S. Army that caused the death of two minors.

Smallwood’s two children, 9-year-old Sam Fagan and 2-year-old Rebekah Smallwood, were killed in the fire and her husband, Army Spc. Wayne Smallwood, was injured.

Smallwood, who is 35, could face death or life imprisonment if convicted. A spokeswoman for the attorney’s office said Smallwood does not have an attorney and she is currently in federal custody.

Lexington man charged with murder

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on November 13, 2008

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By Shawntaye Hopkins

shopkins@herald-leader.com

A Lexington man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a man found outside a bar in July.

Yves M. Garner, 31, was charged Wednesday with murder of Henry Means, 35, who was shot multiple times and found about 11:30 p.m. July 20 outside the Around the Korner bar on Anniston Drive, off Eastland Parkway.

Means was taken to University of Kentucky Medical Center where he later died.

Garner has also been charged with tampering with physical evidence. He is being held at the Fayette County jail.

Lexington police request that anyone with information about this incident contact the Personal Crimes Section at (859) 258-3700 or Bluegrass Crime Stoppers at (859) 253-2020.

Police in Ky. charge man in Halloween gag

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on October 28, 2008

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PARIS — When a Paris chicken restaurant employee found her boss lying in a pool of blood, she ran screaming from the restaurant and called police.

WKYT-TV in Lexington reported the scenario was set up by Joe Watkins as a Halloween prank on one of his workers at the Chicken Ranch restaurant. Her name wasn’t revealed.

Watkins said he tried calling the woman’s cell phone to tell her it was a prank, but she didn’t answer. He says he also called police to tell them it was a gag.

They came anyway and charged Watkins with making a false report.

Witness accounts assailed in truck-wash slaying

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on October 13, 2008

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By Brandon Ortiz
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A defense attorney made an impassioned plea Monday morning on behalf of a Lexington man on trial in the 2003 slaying of a truck driver, accusing a cohort of violent felons of conspiring to pin the blame on his client.

Defense attorney Scott Drabenstadt noted the inconsistencies of prosecution witnesses who accused Marc Buchanan of robbing and killing Carl Gene McClung, a West Virginian, at the Scrub-a-Truck wash on Nandino Boulevard in August 2003. Each witness had pending charges and prior records.

And the details of the witnesses’ stories varied, from minor details like the car driven to the crime scene to glaring inconsistencies like the race of the victim and one of the perpetrators, Drabenstadt said.

“Every one of them is a violent felon. They came in here and they lied,” Drabenstadt told jurors in his closing argument in Fayette Circuit Court. “And they have stolen, temporarily, his freedom. Temporarily — because this jury is not going to let it happen. This jury is not going to stand for this.”

Court recessed shortly before noon for a lunch break. Prosecutors will present their closing argument in the afternoon.

Four corrections officers appeal firing

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on September 19, 2008

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By Beth Musgrave
bmusgrave@herald-leader.com

Four Fayette County Detention Center correction officers who were fired by the city after being charged with beating inmates and then covering it up are challenging their terminations.

Urban County Government officials notified Sgt. John McQueen, Cpl. Clarence McCoy, Sgt. Anthony Estep and Lt. Kristine Lafoe in August that they were being terminated.

Joey McCarty, president of the Communications Workers of America Local 3372, said the four have appealed the city’s decision to fire them.

The city had placed the four on administrative leave with pay after they were indicted in June on abuse and other charges. The alleged abuse involved six inmates in 2006. Also charged was former officer Scott Tyree, who had moved to the city’s water quality division before the June indictment.

After the four officers were indicted, they were relieved of their law enforcement duties, which meant they could no longer be correction officers, said Susan Straub, spokeswoman for Mayor Jim Newberry. The city moved to terminate the officers in late August.

Because Tyree does not work for the jail anymore and has no law enforcement duties, he can still work for the city’s water quality division, Straub said.

McCarty said the four should not have been fired because they have not been convicted.

“Our position is that they have been indicted, but it has not been adjudicated in a court of a law,” McCarty said.

Each faces various counts related to allegedly harming inmates and then writing bogus reports to cover up the abuse. All five have pleaded not guilty. A jury trial is set for Jan. 26.

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Ashlee Clark is the Richmond bureau reporter for the Herald-Leader. She has covered general assignments in Madison, Clark, Estill, Powell and Montgomery counties since she joined the newspaper in September 2007. Ashlee, a Louisville native, is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she received degrees in journalism and sociology.

Shawntaye Hopkins is the Herald-Leader’s police reporter, covering local law enforcement, fire and EMS and breaking news. She joined the staff in September 2006 as the newspaper’s night police reporter. Shawntaye, a Louisville native, graduated from Western Kentucky University where she studied journalism and criminology. Shawntaye resides in Lexington.

Delano Massey is the Herald-Leader’s Regional Editor. He works closely with the paper’s bureau reporters and police and courts reporters to plan coverage, pursue breaking news and seek out enterprise stories. A Northeast Ohio native, Delano started his journalism career as a night cops reporter at the Belleville News-Democrat. In 2003, he made the trek to Lexington to take the reins as the newspaper’s daytime cops reporter. Delano, a graduate of the University of Akron, has won numerous awards for breaking news, spot news and investigative journalism.

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