OLDHAM COUNTY POLICE

Press Release


Oldham County Police have arrested four people in connection with a slew of church burglaries in four counties.
 
Trent Carr, 19, of Crestwood, Cameron Kinser, 18, of Pewee Valley; ; and Jefferson County residents Jennifer Downey, 20, and Derek Music, 19, have been charged with seven counts of burglary.

Five churches and one home in Oldham County and one church in Jefferson County were broken into in November and December.  More than $100,000 in goods, including computers, a clarinet and a diamond ring have been recovered during the investigation.

Oldham County Police Detective Richard Harned said the four were identified while police reviewed traffic stops during the night of one of the burglaries in La Grange, when a police officer had stopped the car they were riding in.

Louisville Metro Police also received a tip that one suspect had bragged about getting pulled over after a burglary but not getting caught.

The four have been charged of stealing from AME Zion Church in Louisville, Pewee Valley Baptist, Crestwood Baptist, Mount Tabor United Methodist in Centerfield, Pewee Valley Salem Assembly of God and South Oldham Church of the Nazarene in Oldham County.

Carr, Downey, Kinser and Music have each been indicted in Oldham County for five counts of burglary third and one count of burglary second.

Music and Downey have been charged in Jefferson County on charges of receiving stolen property and receiving a stolen firearm.  Music and Carr will be charged with two additional counts of burglary related to break-ins at Sligo Baptist Church in Henry County and Bedford Baptist Church in Trimble County.

 


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