A man was sentenced in federal court in Lexington on Friday to 10 years in prison for using a computer to entice a 14-year-old Madison County girl to engage in sexual activity.
Timothy Scott Richerson, 40, of Greensburg admitted in July that he met the girl on a MySpace.com page, where he represented himself as a 16-year-old boy. Richerson communicated with the girl through the computer and by telephone during the summer of 2007, according to a release from the U.S. attorney’s office.
In September 2007, Richerson traveled from his home in Green County to the girl’s house in Madison County. Richerson picked up the girl and drove to a location near her home and had sex with her.
After becoming suspicious, the victim’s mother found some sexually explicit text messages on the girl’s cell phone and reported it to Richmond police. Richerson was indicted in March.
By Ashlee Clark
aclark@herald-leader.com
BEREA — An 82-year-old man is accused of trading Oxycontin for sexual favors from two women.
Archie Anglin was arrested Oct. 21 on charges of trafficking in a controlled substance. He was also charged with possession of a controlled substance after Berea Police Det. Lee Ann Roberts discovered what appeared to be 11 hydrocodone tablets and eight alprazolam pills, the generic form of Xanax, in an aspirin bottle when she served Anglin with a warrant, the arrest report states.
Anglin was taken to Madison County jail and released Thursday on a $10,000 property bond. He is scheduled to appear in Madison County District Court Wednesday for a preliminary hearing.
Berea police began to investigate Anglin after he made several calls to police regarding stolen property. There were often young women who were not related to Anglin at his home when officers responded to his home on Highway 1016, said Berea Police Capt. Ken Clark.
Officers initially investigated because of concern that the young people were taking advantage of Anglin because of his age, Clark said. During the investigation, two women told police they had performed sexual favors for Anglin in exchange for Oxycontin.
Central Kentucky Bureau
Kentucky State Police are investigating the death of a man from a gunshot wound Sunday night.
Shortly before 7 p.m. Sunday, troopers responded to a disturbance where shots were fired on Charlie Norris Road in eastern Madison County.
Upon their arrival, the troopers found one man dead, a state police release said. State police have not released the victim’s name, but an autopsy was to be conducted Monday in Frankfort.
Detectives Brian Reeder and Bill Collins are conducting the death investigation.
By Ashlee Clark
aclark@herald-leader.com
RICHMOND — A Richmond woman was arrested Tuesday for exposing her unborn son to cocaine and marijuana.
Vickie S. Cornett, 35, was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree wanton endangerment.
Cornett was arrested more than a week after Richmond police began to investigate her.
On Oct. 14, Madison County Social Services informed investigators that Cornett had given birth on Sept. 16 to a boy who exhibited symptoms of drug withdrawal, police say.
Tests performed after the boy was born at Pattie A. Clay Hospital in Richmond revealed cocaine and marijuana in his system.
Cornett is being held in the Madison County jail on a $7,500 cash bond.
Ashlee Clark covers Madison County for the Herald-Leader. Reach her at (859) 626-5878.
By Ashlee Clark
aclark@herald-leader.com
RICHMOND — A judge has given prosecutors until next week to provide defense attorneys with more information about the alleged hazing of an Eastern Kentucky University student.
The order was issued after attorneys for EKU students Thomas Barnes and Gabriel M. McLaren and alumnus Alonzo C. McGill said during a hearing in Madison County District Court Thursday morning that prosecutors had provided them with very little of the information they had requested.
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Brent Whiteside
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Thomas Barnes
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Attorney Jim Baechtold, Alonzo McGill and Gabriel McLaren
The attorneys had previously requested a list of names and contact information for the other men who allegedly hazed EKU student Brent Whiteside while he sought admission into EKU’s chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. The attorneys also requested Whiteside’s spring 2008 class schedule.
“It seems to me that the victim isn’t being forthcoming,” said Baechtold, who represents McLaren.
Richmond police say Barnes, McLaren and McGill struck Whiteside with their fists, a paddle and a cane earlier this year, causing kidney failure. Whiteside spent several days at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington.
The men are charged with fourth-degree assault in the case. They have pleaded not guilty.
District Judge William Clouse Jr. ordered that all information requested — or a written explanation of why it is unavailable — be submitted by Tuesday.
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