A second Greensburg resident has been arrested for her role in a reported February 11 attack in Cecilia.
Michelle Thacker, 56, was arrested Thursday morning by the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office. According to an arrest citation, she conspired and drove 45 year-old Jonathan Paul Riggs to Cecilia that resulted in an attack that left an adult male relative of Riggs’s hospitalized.
Riggs is accused of physically assaulting the man with an iron fireplace poker around 4 a.m. February 11.
The man had to be flown to a Louisville hospital for his injuries.
Thacker is charged along with Riggs of robbing the man of $4,960 in cash, as well as a guitar, hat and yo-yo.
She returned the items after the reported incident, then contacted the man and attempted to get him to drop the charges in exchange for the money, according to the citation.
Thacker is charged with complicity to commit first-degree assault and first-degree robbery — Class B felonies punishable by 10 to 20 years in prison, if convicted, and tampering with physical evidence and tampering with a witness, Class D felonies punishable by one to five years in prison, if convicted.
Thacker is being held in the Hardin County Detention Center under a %25,000 cash bond. Her next court date is scheduled for February 25.
Riggs remains lodged in the Hardin County Detention Center in lieu of a $25,000 cash bond.
He is charged with first-degree assault, first-degree robbery and misdemeanor assault. He is scheduled to appear February 25 in Hardin District Court.
Source: NE
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