A March incident outside Target in Elizabethtown that unnerved area shoppers has led to the arrest of a Cincinnati resident.
Jeffrey Scott Parker, 32, has been charged in a March 17 robbery of a woman who was walking to a vehicle in a side parking lot at Target around 9 a.m. when she was struck in the back of the head by an object and had her purse taken. According to an arrest warrant, the purse and its contents were valued at $50.
The woman suffered a cut to her head and was treated at Hardin Memorial Hospital.
Parker also is a suspect in a similar March robbery in St. Matthews.
Elizabethtown Police Department spokesman John Thomas said Parker is linked to both robberies after authorities found purses of the Elizabethtown and St. Matthews women inside a stolen vehicle he was seen taking. The vehicle was stolen March 15 and belonged to Parker’s sister, according to police. The woman said she saw Parker take the vehicle from in front of her home.
Elizabethtown Police Department was contacted March 27 by Detective Michael Winstead of the Cincinnati Police Department and told a stolen vehicle was recovered by their department with the purses still in it.
Parker, who was found and arrested May 31 in Cincinnati, was extradited Thursday to Elizabethtown.
Parker is charged with first-degree robbery, a Class B felony punishable by 10 to 20 years in prison, if convicted. He is being held in the Hardin County Detention Center in lieu of a $5,000 cash bond.
He was scheduled to be arraigned on the local charge at 8:30 a.m. Friday in Hardin District Court.
Source: NE
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