Friday, November 19, 1999
Bulk of warrants for minor offenses
BY JANE PRENDERGAST
The Cincinnati Enquirer
COVINGTON — Kenton County officials hope Saturday's amnesty day for people wanted on outstanding arrest warrants will bring out at least a few scofflaws willing to confront their legal trouble.
Most of the 7,972 warrants are for misdemeanors — things like public intoxication, disorderly conduct or speeding. A huge number are for bad checks.
One man, Neal Burton, 41, of Villa Hills, has had 16 theft warrants outstanding since March for bad checks.
Failure to pay child support is another common problem.
None of the warrants seeks a murderer. But some remain outstanding for serious offenses — rape, sodomy, burglary, sexual abuse, robbery. More than 50 are for people who violated their probation in a felony case, the same thing for which Donald Colston was wanted when he killed his wife in 1996.
Some of those sought on the most-serious charges:
• Ronald Patton Jr., 33, last known to be living in Covington: Originally sought in 1998 for the rape of a 12-year-old girl, he had been wanted for six months when he was arrested on that charge. He is now wanted again, though, for violating his probation in the same case and is back on Kenton County's weekly Top 10 Most Wanted list.
“We tracked him down in Indiana and brought him back here,” said Mark Richardson, one of two Kenton County Police officers assigned to the department's fugitive-finding unit. “And now we're looking for him again.”
• Effie Arnold, 47: Wanted now for escaping from the Kenton County Jail, she's also sought by authorities in Cleveland, Officer Richardson said, because she might have been a witness there to a killing years ago.
• Marcus Bell, 22, of Covington: The last of a group of men sought for engaging in organized crime in connection with drug dealing.
“These people are difficult to find,” said County Attorney Garry Edmondson.
Amnesty Day begins Saturday at 8:30 a.m. at the Kenton County Justice Center, Third Street and Madison Avenue.
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