CLARKSVILLE POLICE SAY THE MAN FOUND DEAD ON MARTIN STREET THIS MORNING WAS MURDERED.

            A NEWS RELEASE SAYS THE 39-YEAR OLD WAS KILLED IN THE 700 BLOCK OF MARTIN STREET AND THAT IT APPERARS THE INCIDENT WAS NOT AT RANDOM.

            THE INICDENT HAPPENED SOMETIME AFTER 1AM THIS MORNING, WITH NO OTHER DETAILS ON THE CAUSE LISTED. THE BODY HAS BEEN TAKEN TO NASHVILLE FOR AN AUTOPSY AND THE NAME OF THE VICTIM HAS STILL NOT BEEN RELEASED.

            ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE BEEN IN THE MARTIN ST.-CROSSLAND AVENUE AREA THIS MORNING WHO HEARD OR SAW ANYTHING IS ENCOURAGED TO CALL THE TIPSLINE AT 931-645-8477.

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            NEW DETAILS HAVE BEEN RELEASED REGARDING THE ARREST OF AN ALLEGED RAPIST FROM OVER THE WEEKEND.

            IN A STORY FIRST REPORTED ON WHOP SATURDAY MORNING, HOPKINSVILLE POLICE ARRESTED 53-YEAR OLD ARCHIE YATES OF CATLETTSBURG, KENTUCKY ON TWO COUNTS OF FIRST DEGREE RAPE, SODOMY AND SEXUAL ABUSE.          

            THE OFFICIAL ARREST CARD SAYS TWO EIGHT YEAR OLD GIRLS SAID YATES FORCED HIMSELF ON THEM SEXUALLY.

            CITY POLICE WERE CALLED TO THE RESIDENCE WHERE YATES WAS REPORTEDLY A GUESS FRIDAY NIGHT AROUND 9 O’CLOCK AND ARRESTED HIM A FEW MINUTES AFTER FOUR O’CLOCK SATURDAY MORNING.

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            THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE IS CURRENTLY INVESTIGATING TWO BURGLARIES IN THE AREAS OF LAYFAYETTE AND OLD PALESTINE ROADS.

            IN THE FIRST INCIDENT, 82-YEAR OLD LORINE DURHAM TOLD DEPUTIES SOMETIME LAST WEEK UNKNOWN PERSONS BROKE INTO HER HOUSE LOCATED AT 15-561 OLD PALESTINE ROAD AND STOLE AN AC UNIT ALONG WITH A WASHING MACHINE, STOVE AND COPPER WIRING WORTH OVER 35-HUNDRED DOLLARS.

            MEANWHILE, DEPUTIES ARE ALSO INVESTIGATING A BURGLARY REPORT THAT OCCURRED AT 48-01 LAFAYETTE ROAD SOMETIME LAST MONTH AND LAST WEEK, WHERE BURGLARS ALLEGEDLY STOLE A NEW WINDOW AIR CONDITIONER UNIT WORTH 500 DOLLARS.

            ACCORDING TO RAYMOND NELSON THE SUSPECTS TOOK THE UNIT FROM HIS RENTAL PROPERTY AND HE SAYS AFTER HE ASKED AROUND, HE WAS GIVEN THE NAME OF A POSSIBLE SUSPECT.

            CHRISTIAN COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES HAVE NOT MADE ANY ARRESTS IN EITHER REPORT.

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    CLARKSVILLE POLICE ARE INVESTIGATING HUMAN REMAINS FOUND ON A CITY STREET THIS MORNING AS A HOMICIDE.
    OFFICER JIM KNOLL SAYS THE MAN’S BODY WAS FOUND AT THE 700 BLOCK OF MARTIN STREET. POLICE SAY THE UNATTENDED DEATH IS BEING INVESTIGATED AS A HOMICIDE AND A CRIME SCENE WAS SET UP IN THE CROSSLAND AVENUE AND MARTIN STREET AREA.
    NO OTHER DETAILS ARE BEING RELEASED AND ANYONE WHO MAY HAVE INFORMATION ON THE INCIDENT IS ASKED TO CALL THE TIPS LINE AT 931-645-8477.
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             A TRIGG COUNTY MAN WHO HAS BEEN A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE FOR A YEAR AND IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW FOR THE BETTER PART OF TWO DECADES IS BACK IN JAIL.
             STATE POLICE ARRESTED 64-YEAR OLD MICHAEL “MICKEY” BRASHEARS SUNDAY MORNING ON CERULEAN-HOPKINSVILLE ROAD IN THE CERULEAN AREA OF TRIGG COUNTY. BRASHEARS HAD ALLEGEDLY BEEN HIDING IN FIELDS, WOODED AREAS AND LIVING IN A TENT FOR THE LAST 12 MONTHS AFTER TROOPERS ALLEGEDLY FOUND A MARIJUANA GROWING OPERATION ON HIS PROPERTY WHILE HE WAS OUT ON BOND FROM A PREVIOUS DRUG CHARGE IN 2007.
              POLICE SAY HE WAS ARMED WITH TWO FIREARMS, BUT WAS ARRESTED WITHOUT INCIDENT AROUND 9:15 AM.
              IN ADDITION TO THE RECENT DRUG CHARGES, BRASHEARS HAS ALSO FACED BURGLARY AND FIREARMS CHARGES GOING BACK TO 1986.
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