Cops & Courts

Two teens have been arrested and charged with invading a home and attempting to rob four people at gunpoint.

Desmond C. Sebring, 18, of Shelbyville and Marcus D. Box, 19, of Eminence are each charged with four counts of first-degree robbery in an incident that occurred Jan. 17 at an apartment on Midland Trail in Shelbyville.

Box also is charged with six counts of third-degree burglary in connection with six businesses that he is accused of having broken into around that same date, along with three accomplices.

Thieves who seem to steal just about anything from copper and scrap metal got a bit more creative recently, stealing a fire hydrant right off the street.
Shelby County Sheriff’s Det. Jason Rice had few details about the case of the stolen fire hydrant, which came from the North Country subdivision near West Middle School.
In fact, deputies only learned of the theft after water pressure in the neighborhood began to plummet in the line owned by the North Shelby Water District.

A woman who was beaten severely in November and thought brain dead in December soon may be released from the hospital.

Denisse Escareno, 24, who was found barely breathing and badly beaten on the side of Mount Eden Road by passersby on Nov. 5, has been at the University of Louisville Hospital since that time.

Escareno was in a coma for nearly two months and showed signs of improvement on Christmas Day by moving her toes, just days after doctors had told her family they didn’t think she ever would wake up.

Shelby County’s consideration of whether to continue to have constables may get new direction from the state.

In recent years members of Shelby County Fiscal Court have discussed whether the county still needs to have paid constables, questioning their value in law enforcement.

Now a new “compromise” bill that would allow local governments to limit duties of constables by ordinance, though stopping short of its original goal of abolishing the role.