Man stabbed, hospitalized after domestic dispute

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January 21, 2012

By Sarah Hogsed Register News Writer The Richmond Register Sat Jan 21, 2012, 07:00 AM EST

RICHMOND — A domestic dispute Thursday night led to a Richmond woman’s arrest after police say she stabbed a man in the chest.

Jessica S. Brewer, 30, of Big Hill Avenue, is charged with second-degree assault, according to an RPD news release. Second-degree assault is a Class C felony, punishable by five to 10 years in prison.

Police officers were dispatched at 9:41 p.m. to a home in the 100 block of Rice Avenue. When they arrived, they reportedly found a man on the ground outside the residence. The man had a stab wound in his chest and lacerations to one hand, according to Richmond Police Chief Larry Brock.

The man was taken by ambulance to the University of Kentucky Medical Center and was listed in stable condition Friday afternoon.

Brewer and the man were arguing when she allegedly stabbed him in the chest with a kitchen knife, according to police.

Brewer also was cited on a charge of failure to appear in court for a misdemeanor charge. She was taken to the Madison County Detention Center, where she is being held on a $9,000 bond.

Alleged bank robber nabbed

A Nike baseball cap has linked a man apprehended Dec. 29 during a South Carolina bank heist to the unsolved November robbery of a Richmond bank, according to Brock.

Wesley Todd McCracken, 41, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., was apprehended by two off-duty police officers after he allegedly robbed a bank in Georgetown, S.C., according to an RPD news release.

At 5 p.m. Nov. 10, a white man reportedly entered the Chase Bank on Leighway Drive and gave a teller a note demanding money. The teller complied with the robber’s demands, and he left the bank with an undetermined mount of money. He reportedly drove away in a newer model black SUV with dark-tinted windows.

“McCracken wore a Nike hat in several of the robberies he is suspected of committing, including the one in Richmond,” Brock said.

The FBI said McCracken was wanted in 13 bank robberies in seven states, according to the Georgetown (S.C.) Times. His alleged crime spree started Oct. 25, and he often robbed banks close to major intestate highways such as I-75 and I-95. In addition to Kentucky and South Carolina, the newspaper reported that robberies also occurred in Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.

McCracken, who was nicknamed the “Nike Hat Bank Robber,” is being held in South Carolina and likely will face bank robbery charges in federal court, Brock said.

At the time of the November bank robbery, the same man was suspected of the robbery of a bank in the Hamburg section of Lexington about an hour earlier, according to the RPD.

Another arrest in stolen check case

Richmond police have made another arrest in connection with items stolen in December from a North Estill Avenue home.

Amanda S. Hornsby, 22, of Richmond, was charged with 17 counts of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, 10 counts of second-degree forgery and receiving stolen property under $10,000, according to Brock.

A resident in the 300 block of North Estill Avenue reported Dec. 17 that several items had been stolen from her house while she was away the previous week. Among the items were several personal checks that later were cashed, according to the RPD.

A police investigation headed up by investigating Officer Josh Petrey determined that Hornsby reportedly had passed at least 13 of the stolen and forged checks at local stores for a total of $2,909.33. Two of her accomplices passed at least four of the checks totaling $840, according to police.

“It was further found that Hornsby had been in possession of the stolen jewelry … and had transferred it to a third party shortly after the theft,” Brock said in a news release.

A warrant was obtained for Hornsby’s arrest, and police found her Thursday in the 1300 block of East Irvine Street.

The RPD previously arrested and charged Dustin L. Smith, 25, Dennis Street, on Jan. 13 in connection with the same incident. He had reportedly cashed two of the stolen checks at a local bank.

Theft from home

Residents of an apartment in the 100 block of Manna Drive reported to police that several items had been taken Wednesday afternoon from the home when another resident was in the process of moving out.

The items reported missing were an Olevia 42-inch plasma television, a silver Sony Vaio laptop computer, a black Xbox Elite gaming console, a white Xbox Arcade gaming console with two controllers and three games, a green iPod Shuffle, a black iPod Touch and a black backpack.

The estimated loss was $2,545.

Anyone with information about these crimes is asked to call the Richmond Police Department at 623-1162.

Sarah Hogsed can be reached at shogsed@richmondregister.com or 624-6694.

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