Police News: Woman hospitalized after crash
Published 12:00 am Saturday, May 24, 2008
An Auburn woman is in critical condition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville after a motorcycle crash Thursday in Logan County.
Lorie Martin, 41, was riding a motorcycle on Ky. 103 at 10:08 a.m. when the accident occurred, according to a Logan County Sheriff’s Office report.
Investigators are attempting to identify and locate the driver of a farm tractor that was traveling north on Ky. 103 at the time of the accident. The red tractor had spray booms attached, according to the report.
Anyone with information about the tractor or its driver is asked to contact Deputy Jim Ray at (270) 726-2244 or (270) 726-3531.
Plea — Richard Mark Watwood, 43, 806 Rachels View, Hermitage, Tenn., pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green for traveling in interstate commerce with intent to engage in sex with a minor.
Watwood was one of several men arrested in a sting that was featured on NBC’s “Dateline: To Catch a Predator.” Watwood admitted that on or about Oct. 18, 2007, he traveled from his home in Tennessee to Bowling Green with the intent to engage in sex with a person Watwood believed to be a 13-year-old girl.
He engaged in sexually explicit chats with the “juvenile,” who was really a decoy working with police, and Watwood sent via webcam pictures of his genitals to the decoy, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Louisville.
Watwood initiated the idea of meeting and of being the minor’s first sexual experience, according to the report. Watwood arrived for the meeting with the minor at a house in Bowling Green, where he believed the 13-year-old girl to be home alone for the weekend. He had in his possession a number of Viagra tablets and condoms.
Woodwood faces up to 30 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and supervised release for five years to life, according to the report.
Sentencing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Aug. 22 in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green. The Kentucky Bureau of Investigation and the Warren County Sheriff’s Office conducted the investigation, according to the report.
Plea — Deborah M. McDonald, 45, 112 Francis Lane, Cadiz, formerly a resident Bowling Green, pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Owensboro to a 17-count indictment charging her with mail fraud.
McDonald admitted that between June 15, 2003, and Dec. 15, 2005, McDonald stole the identity of two Bowling Green men to apply for and use credit cards. She used their identities on 19 separate occasions to apply for and receive credit cards in their names, according to a report from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Louisville. She then used the credit cards for her personal benefit and made approximately $37,100 in fraudulent charges. She was able to steal the victims’ identities by using their names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and home addresses to apply for and use the credit cards.
She faces up to 344 years in prison and supervised release for up to 3 years. Two counts include mandatory minimum sentences of two years. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 22 in Owensboro.
Sentence — Eric Don Henson, 48, of 2345 Pope-Trammell Road, Scottsville, was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green to 15 years in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Henson also received three years supervised release following incarceration, according to a report from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Louisville.
He pleaded guilty to knowingly and intentionally possessing a 12-gauge shotgun after having been convicted of a felony. Henson received a 15-year sentence under the Armed Career Criminal Act due to previous convictions in Allen Circuit Court for first-degree criminal abuse, third-degree burglary and third-degree arson, according to the report.
The case was investigated by agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Allen County Drug Task Force.
Sentence — Taurus Tremaine Hollins, 27, of 415 E. Seventh St., Russellville, was sentenced to six years and five months in prison Thursday in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green for possession of crack cocaine with the intent to distribute.
After completing his sentence, Hollins will also have three years of supervised release, according to a report from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Louisville.
Hollins has previous felony convictions in Logan Circuit Court for first-degree possession of a controlled substance and first-degree trafficking in a controlled substance. The federal sentence will run consecutively to the state sentence.
He pleaded guilty to possessing, with intent to distribute, approximately 15 grams of cocaine base, according to the report. The case was investigated by agents of the South Central Kentucky Drug Task Force.