Written by Molly Schramm, WCPO digital content producer TSA employees are undergoing remediation training after allowing a man to bring two box cutters aboard a CVG flight headed to Tampa, TSA spokesperson Patricia Mancha said. The pilots were forced to make an emergency landing after the man threatened to stab and kill people on the plane. […]
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Boone County man found safe, Golden-D alert canceled
Boone County Deputies shared that Joshua M. Lively, 31, of Florence, has been found safe after a Golden-D Alert was issued Friday evening. Joshua was reported missing after he was seen leaving his parent’s house Friday evening.
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Flight from CVG makes emergency landing in Atlanta after passenger sneaks box cutter on board
Written by Molly Schramm, WCPO digital content producer A man on a Frontier Airlines flight out of CVG on Friday was arrested after it emergency landed in Atlanta when it was discovered he snuck two box cutters onboard, said the airline and TSA. Before diverting to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport around 9:30 p.m. Friday, Flight […]
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Burlington man facing charges after alleged sexual contact with incapacitated woman
Boone County Sheriff’s Office deputies received a report of a sexual assault that occurred in Burlington by a known suspect on Nov. 1. The victim reported that Alexander J. Boyd, 28 of Burlington, was with her the night of Oct. 30. That night, the victim took nighttime medicine to get some rest due to not […]
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Union man charged with rape, sodomy and incest of 12-year-old
On Oct. 31, Boone County Sherriff’s Office detectives received a report from a victim stating that a known suspect raped and sodomized her. Nov. 9, detectives placed Alfredo Martinez, 44, of Union, under arrest. The victim who was less than 12 years old at the time of the assaults, reported Martinez sodomized and raped her […]
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Sophia Rosing permanently banned from UK campus, not eligible to re-enroll after racial tirade
Written by Jordan Mickle, LEX18 reporter University of Kentucky student Sophia Rosing has been permanently banned from campus and will not be eligible to re-enroll as a student, according to a statement from UK President Eli Capilouto. The news comes after video captured early Sunday morning showed her calling a Black UK student, Kylah Spring, racial slurs […]
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Bellevue man sentenced to prison for illegal possession of a firearm
A Bellevue man prohibited from possessing a firearm due to a domestic violence order was sentenced to more than 2 1/2 years in federal prison Tuesday after pleading guilty in July to possessing a fully loaded AK-47, according to Gabrielle Dudgeon of the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Perrin George March V, 27, admitted that had ammunition […]
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Fort Mitchell woman, UK student facing criminal charges after video shows drunken, racial tirade
Written by Jordan Mickle A Fort Mitchell woman was arrested and is facing criminal charges after an online video shows her calling a UK student racial slurs while verbally and physically assaulting her. The video posted online showed the student employee, Kylah Spring, repeatedly being called racial slurs before UK police showed up and arrested […]
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Brent Spence closed for manhunt of armed suspect
This story has been updated with information about the suspect’s encounter with police. All lanes of Interstates 71 and 75 were shut down on the Brent Spence Bridge around 5:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, as police searched for an armed suspect, according to authorities. A suspicious-looking man with a gun was approached by authorities and […]
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Covington man pleads guilty to spraying fire extinguisher at officers during Jan. 6 capitol breach
Covington resident Nicholas James Brockhoff, 21, recently pleaded guilty to “assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon” during the 2021 Jan. 6 Capitol Breach. According to the Washington, D.C., state attorney’s office, Brockhoff illegally entered the grounds of the U.S. Capitol as part of a mob protesting former President Donald Trump’s defeat in […]
