Henderson man charged with choking woman, breaking her nose
HENDERSON, Ky. A Henderson County man accused of choking a woman and breaking her nose was jailed over the weekend.
The Henderson County Sheriff s Office charged John Layman, 28, 1700 block of South Green Street, with second-degree assault (domestic violence) and first-degree strangulation. It was also discovered that he was wanted on a parole violation warrant for allegedly escaping from a Kentucky correctional facility in Lexington. He was additionally charged with another warrant for failure to appear.
Sheriff s deputies responded to the emergency room at Deaconess Hospital around 4 a.m. Saturday after staff there began treating a woman who d suffered multiple injuries.
HENDERSON, Ky. A Henderson man is accused of abducting a woman just two weeks after being jailed and released in a different case.
Roddrick Armstead, 24, 1700 block of North Green Street, was arrested Thursday night on charges of kidnapping an adult and second-degree criminal mischief.
Henderson Police Detective Jake Isonhood said the investigation began Thursday after a woman called and said she d been held hostage by Armstead and beaten over a 24-hour time period before she was able to get away.
The woman told police she was at her residence in Evansville when he allegedly forced her to get into his car and drove her to his apartment in Henderson, Isonhood said.
HENDERSON, Ky. Authorities are searching for a person who allegedly fled from police in a stolen vehicle.
Henderson officials said the incident started on Tuesday, March 2 when officers attempted to stop a black 2014 Mitsubishi Lancer with an Indiana temporary tag at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and South Adams Street.
Authorities said the traffic stop was due to violations including no license plate light and the plate not being legible.
HPD said the car turned onto Adams Street and initially pulled over.
For unknown reasons, the driver disregarded the police cruiser with its activated emergency lights and continued traveling at a low-speed, stopping at all the stop signs along the way, HPD officials said.
Valerie Owenby, known until now in court records at V.O., wants everyone to know her name.
Owenby grew up in the house her grandfather built, on a mountaintop in Henderson County. She lived there with her father, brother and grandparents at the end of a country road, surrounded by woods and very few neighbors.
The closest neighbor was James Franklin Sapp, who Owenby, now 22, said sexually assaulted, raped and terrorized her from age 5-12, most of her childhood.
“When I was 12 I started my period, and he decided not to do it anymore and told me to keep my mouth shut or my family would die,” Owenby said.
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Valerie Owenby, known until now in court records at V.O., wants everyone to know her name.
Owenby grew up in the house her grandfather built, on a mountaintop in Henderson County. She lived there with her father, brother and grandparents at the end of a country road, surrounded by woods and very few neighbors.
The closest neighbor was James Franklin Sapp, who Owenby, now 22, said sexually assaulted, raped and terrorized her from age 5-12, most of her childhood.
“When I was 12 I started my period, and he decided not to do it anymore and told me to keep my mouth shut or my family would die,” Owenby said.