Dustin Hudson

A teenager charged in connection with several reported burglaries and robberies at area businesses will appear in court Monday.

Dustin James Hudson, 19, of Fort Campbell Army base, was indicted Wednesday by a Warren County grand jury on charges of first-degree robbery, first-degree robbery by complicity, five counts of third-degree burglary, three counts of theft by unlawful taking of property valued at less than $500, two counts of second-degree criminal mischief and three counts of thrd-degree criminal mischief.

Hudson, who will be arraigned Monday in Warren Circuit Court, was arrested Nov. 8 by the Bowling Green Police Department in a truck with three juveniles.

According to court documents, Hudson is suspected of robbing Kinnarney’s Drive-In Liquors on Boatlanding Road on Nov. 6 and of being present during a robbery at the drive-thru window of Chuck’s Liquor Store on Three Springs Road on Nov. 7.

Police reviewing surveillance video of the incident at Chuck’s determined that the truck shown there matched the description of the truck at the Kinnarney’s robbery.

A city police officer located a black 2008 Dodge Ram matching the description on Nov. 8 and conducted a traffic stop at Avon and Columbia streets, detained Hudson and the three juveniles and questioned them at BGPD headquarters.

Two of the juveniles admitted that the truck in which they were stopped was used during the robberies and that Hudson was the driver during the Kinnarney’s incident and sat in the front passenger seat during the incident at Chuck’s, according to an affidavit for a search warrant filed by BGPD Detective Eric Stroud.

“Dustin Hudson agreed to speak with police but only stated that he did not get into Bowling Green until after 8 p.m. on Nov. 7, 2016,” Stroud wrote in the affidavit. “Prior to that, Hudson advised he was on base at Fort Campbell.”

Hudson consented to a search of the truck, and police found multiple cellphones, a “noticeably scratched black BB gun in the style of a semi-automatic pistol,” a blue bandana, a large rock and a black hooded sweatshirt with a Chevrolet emblem on the front, court documents show.

While city police questioned the four people, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office contacted Stroud regarding a burglary at Dollar General Store in Rockfield that occurred around 1:20 a.m. Nov. 8.

According to court records, surveillance footage showed a person throwing a rock through a window of the store, with another person reaching through the broken window to unlock the door and both people entering the store. Hudson was wearing identical clothes at the time of his arrest as one of the people shown entering the store.

One of the juveniles told police that he threw the rock through the glass while Hudson unlocked the door, according to Stroud’s affidavit. 

Police suspected Hudson of being involved in similar burglaries that occurred at the Family Dollar on Glen Lily Road on Oct. 30, Chuck’s Liquors on Three Springs Road on Oct. 30 and the Dollar General Store on Scottsville Road on Nov. 5 and 8, due to surveillance video footage documenting a person throwing a rock through a window and a second person reaching through to unlock a door.

During questioning about these incidents, one of the juveniles admitted being involved in the burglary at Family Dollar and the Nov. 5 Dollar General burglary, and that Hudson always accompanied him, according to Stroud’s affidavit.

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