NEW CARLISLE, Ohio An Ohio man pleaded innocent today in Clark County District Court and refused to return to Kentucky and face an allegation that he killed an elderly Kentucky woman and placed her body on the railroad tracks, according to court records. The arrest of Ronnie Blankenship, 43, of New Carlisle came Wednesday after the Clark County Sheriffs Office was alerted about a warrant for his arrest earlier that day, Clark County Sheriffs Sgt. Don Lucas said. Blankenship had been living with his mother at her home just outside the city limits of New Carlisle a suburb of 6,000 residents just north of Dayton. Deputies spotted Blankenship and followed him until he went inside a New Carlisle Title Department where an undercover officer observed him renew a drivers license, Lucas said. Blankenship was then arrested without incident by Clark County Deputies, Lucas said. He is wanted by the Kentucky State Police in connection with the homicide of Lura Reams, 83, of Bonnieville who was found dead on railroad tracks behind her home. Investigators said Reams was assaulted at her home and placed on the tracks where she was struck by a train in the early hours of July 18.Reams, a mother of five, was a widow who lived alone. Blankenship has refused to voluntarily be extradited to Kentucky is currently lodged in the Clark County Jail in lieu of a $500,000 cash bond. Kentucky officials are in the process of obtaining a governors warrant through the Hart County Commonwealths Attorneys office in order to extradite Blankenship, state police Trooper Nick Stephens said..