A TODD COUNTY WOMAN WAS INDICTED BY A FEDERAL GRAND JURY THIS WEEK FOR ALLEGEDLY FILING FALSE INCOME TAX TRETURNS AND ON IDENTITY THEFT CHARGES.

            A NEWS RELEASE FROM THE FEDERAL COURT IN BOWLING GREEN SAYS 43-YEAR OLD LOUISA EDMONDS OF ELKTON FACES FIVE COUNTS OF FILING A FALSE RETURN, FIFTEEN COUNTS OF AIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PREPARATION OF A FALSE RETURN AND FOUR COUNTS OF IDENTITY THEFT.

            MS. EDMONDS ALLEGEDLY FILED FALSE RETURNS FOR HERSELF FROM 2005 TO 2009 BY CLAIMING DEDUCTIONS SHE WAS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR AND DEPENDENTS SHE DIDN’T HAVE.

            SHE ALSO ALLEGEDLY FALSELY CLAIMED THE FIRST TIME HOMEOWNER TAX CREDIT AND THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT. ADDITIONALLY, SHE IS ACCUSED OF USING THE IDENTITY OF SOMEONE ELSE TO RECEIVE MONEY FROM THE IRS BY FILING A FALSE TAX RETURN.

            SHE FACES SEVERAL YEARS IN PRISON AND UP TO A HALF MILLION DOLLARS IN FINES, IF CONVICTED. SHE IS SET TO APPEAR IN FEDERAL COURT NOVEMBER 23^RD IN BOWLING GREEN.

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11/11/2011/AM

TURLEY

           ONE OF THIS WEEK’S CRIME STOPPERS FUGITIVES OF THE WEEK HAS BEEN ARRESTED.

            AN ANONYMOUS TIPSTER WILL RECEIVE A CASH REWARD FOR HELPING THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE FIND AND ARREST 34-YEAR OLD MICHAEL WAYNE TURLEY AT 1240 DAWSON-CROFTON ROAD.

            TURLEY WAS WANTED ON MULTIPLE WARRANTS AND WAS ARRESTED AROUND 2PM THURSDAY AND LODGED IN THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY JAIL.

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            A YOUNG MAN FROM FAR WESTERN KENTUCKY WAS AIRLIFTED TO VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER AFTER A TWO-VEHICLE WRECK IN CALLOWAY COUNTY YESTERDAY.

            STATE POLICE SAY 17-YEAR OLD MARSHALL PEACHEY OF FULTON FELL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL WHILE EASTBOUND ON KENTUCKY 94 AROUND 12:25 PM AND CROSSED THE CENTER LINE. PEACHEY STRUCK A VEHICLE DRIVEN BY WILDA RICHARDSON OF MURRAY BEFORE STRIKING A DITCH AND OVERTURNING SEVERAL TIMES.

            PEACHEY AND HIS PASSENGER, 18-YEAR OLD AARON KOEHN OF SEDALIA, WERE EJECTED FROM THE VEHICLE. ALL THREE INVOLVED WERE TAKEN TO MURRAY CALLOWAY COUNTY HOSPITAL, THOUGH KOEHN WOULD BE TRANSPORTED TO VANDERBILT. BOTH DRIVERS WERE TREATED AND RELEASED.

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11/11/2011/AM

            A HOPKINSVILLE MAN WAS INVOLVED IN A WRECK ON THE WESTERN KENTUCKY PARKWAY IN HOPKINS COUNTY THURSDAY.

            THE INCIDENT HAPPENED AROUND 1PM NEAR THE 42 MILE-MARKER, ACCORDING TO THE REPORT FROM STATE POLICE, WHICH SAYS 29-YEAR OLD VICTOR STEELE OF GREENVILLE WAS WESTBOUND ON THE PARKWAY WHEN HE TOOK HIS EYES OFF THE ROAD MOMENTARILY TO REACH FOR SOMETHING IN THE FLOORBOARD.

            THAT’S WHEN HE RAN INTO THE BACK OF A TRACTOR-TRAILER DRIVEN BY 45-YEAR OLD KELLY JONES OF HOPKINSVILLE. BOTH VEHICLES CAME TO REST IN THE EMERGENCY LANE, WITH STEELE TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOR HIS INJURIES AND JONES NOT HURT.

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11/11/2011/AM

            A FIRE WHICH BEGAN IN A GARAGE SPREAD INTO A WOODLINE THIS AFTERNOON, REQUIRING FOUR FIRE DEPARTMENTS TO PUT IT OUT.

            CHRISTIAN COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR RANDY GRAHAM SAYS THE FIRST PAGE WENT OUT AROUND 2:30 TO A FIRE IN THE DEAD END OF HAPPY HOLLOW ROAD.

            A GARAGE BURNED DOWN, DESTROYING A VEHICLE INSIDE AND SPREADING INTO THE WOODS. UNITS FROM THE WEST SIDE, HIGHLAND, SQUARE DEAL AND HERNDON DEPARTMENTS RESPONDED AND HAD THE BLAZE UNDER CONTROL BY 4 O’CLOCK.

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