(NEW YORK) — One worker is dead and rescue efforts are underway to locate another after an 11-story building collapsed Tuesday night at a shuttered coal plant in eastern Kentucky, officials said.
The coal sorting structure at Martin Mine Prep Plant in Martin County collapsed at approximately 6:30 p.m. ET, according to Kentucky Emergency Management.
Two workers became trapped “underneath multiple floors of concrete and steel,” the agency said in a statement.
Rescue efforts have been underway since Tuesday night. Emergency workers located one of the workers and spoke with him, though he has since died, according to Marion County Sheriff John Kirk. First responders have been unable to locate the other worker, Kirk said.
“We still are attempting to locate him, we are still considering [this] a rescue operation,” Kirk told Charleston, West Virginia, ABC affiliate WCHS on Wednesday.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has declared a state of emergency in Martin County to mobilize state resources.
“Kentucky, keep praying — but the scene is bad and we should be prepared for tough news out of Martin County,” Beshear said in a statement.
Multiple agencies have responded to the scene and are assisting in rescue efforts, including the National Guard’s Special Tactics Squadron K-9 search dog unit.
The two workers were helping demolish the building at the abandoned mine site on Wolf Creek, according to Martin County Judge/Executive Lon Lafferty.
Lafferty said in a social media post early Wednesday that he declared a local state of emergency in Martin County to help access additional rescue resources.
State Sen. Phillip Wheeler, whose district includes Martin County, said he is “deeply saddened” by news of the deadly collapse.
“This incident is a stark reminder of the inherent risks in any job and the unexpected nature of tragedy,” he said in a statement. “We are prepared to assist those affected by loss or injury and their families and the local government in any way we can.”
(NEW YORK) — The early winter weather that has already brought freezing temperatures and snowfall to portions of the U.S. is now on the move.
In the next 24 hours, dozens of record low temperatures are expected from Texas and all the way up to Maine, forecast show.
On Wednesday morning, 18 states from Texas to Connecticut were on alert for a freeze, including major cities such as Dallas, Atlanta, Raleigh, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia.
A lake effect snow warning was issued for northern Ohio and Pennsylvania on Wednesday morning, where some areas got up to 10 inches of snow.
By Thursday morning, the core of the coldest air will move into the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, with temperatures in the teens possible in northern New England, and temperatures in the 20s and 30s expected along the I-95 corridor.
Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia could see its first freeze of the season, while New York City will be in the middle 30s. Temperatures in regions outside the Big Apple will see temperatures in the 20s.
The first measurable snow of the season fell on Halloween for millions of people in the Midwest.
Minneapolis saw nearly 3 inches of snow, marking the first white Halloween for the city since 1991, according to the NWS.
Chicago got almost an inch of snow on Tuesday, just the third time in history that the Windy City saw measurable snowfall on Halloween. The snow was so heavy and wet that thousands were left without power in western Michigan, as wet leaves that had not yet fallen were weighed down from the snow and onto power lines.
Regions just now of Grand Rapids, Michigan, saw up to 11 inches of snowfall, while Muskegon, Michigan, about 40 miles northeast near the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, saw 8.8 inches of snow — the most on record.
Overnight, snow also fell near Cleveland and Erie, Pennsylvania, where some areas got more than 6 inches of snow.
Areas in western New York near Buffalo also saw snowfall, which caused slick roads and some accidents on Wednesday morning.
However, the winter-like weather is not expected to persist. Warmer weather is forecast for the weekend, with temperatures in the 60s expected along the I-95 corridor, and even reaching the 70s near Raleigh.
(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $250 million lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House.
Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr., and Trump Organization executives are accused by New York Attorney General Letitia James of engaging in a decade-long scheme in which they used “numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation” to inflate Trump’s net worth in order get more favorable loan terms. The trial comes after the judge in the case ruled in a partial summary judgment that Trump had submitted “fraudulent valuations” for his assets, leaving the trial to determine additional actions and what penalty, if any, the defendants should receive.
The former president has denied all wrongdoing and his attorneys have argued that Trump’s alleged inflated valuations were a product of his business skill.
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‘Leave my children alone,’ Trump says ahead of sons’ testimony
Former President Trump attacked Judge Arthur Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James on social media ahead of today’s expected testimony from his son Donald Trump Jr.
“Leave my children alone, Engoron. You are a disgrace to the legal profession!” Trump wrote overnight on his Truth Social platform.
Donald Trump Jr. is expected to begin his testimony in the afternoon today.
If that testimony concludes today, his brother Eric Trump could also begin his testimony.
Both of them are executive vice presidents in the Trump Organization.
(MIAMI) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday conducted his first known review of classified evidence shared by special counsel Jack Smith as part of his case against Trump for allegedly mishandling the nation’s secrets and obstructing the government’s efforts to retrieve them, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.
Trump joined his attorneys Tuesday in Miami for a visit to a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility — or SCIF — in order to view the highly classified materials gathered by Smith’s team over the course of their investigation, including those seized by the FBI during their search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022, the sources said.
Trump’s visit comes as the judge overseeing the probe, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, is set to hold a hearing Wednesday in Fort Pierce, Florida, on Trump’s request to extend the deadlines in the case. Cannon has paused any litigation involving the classified materials in question as she considers the request.
Last month, Cannon issued a protective order over the classified information central to the case, clearing the way for the special counsel to begin providing classified discovery materials to Trump and his lawyers to review in the SCIF.
According to public court filings, the material in the classified discovery includes “classified documents that had been stored at Mar-a-Lago as well as other classified material generated or obtained in the Government’s investigation, including documents related to witness interviews such as reports and transcripts.”
It’s standard procedure for defendants charged with illegal retention of national defense information to be able to review the classified evidence gathered against them, while adhering to a strict set of standards and rules barring them from disclosing that information.
Trump pleaded not guilty in June to 37 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials, after prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information ranging from U.S. nuclear secrets to the nation’s defense capabilities, and took steps to thwart the government’s efforts to get the documents back. His longtime aide, Walt Nauta, also pleaded not guilty to related charges.
Trump’s lawyers have said they have yet to gain access to a handful of the documents charged in Smith’s indictment against the former president.
The special counsel previously said that some documents were so sensitive that even the SCIF wasn’t sufficiently secure to store them, requiring alternate arrangements be made for viewing.
“Although the defense SCIF is now approved for the review and discussion of all classified discovery, it is not yet approved for the storage of certain extremely sensitive materials, which the Government has referred to as ‘special measures documents,'” the special counsel wrote in a court filing, noting that there are about 127 total pages designated as such.
In a subsequent filing, the government said that the SCIF had been approved to store the special measures documents, and that they were prepared to arrange for delivery of those documents.
The special counsel says they have produced about 5,431 pages of classified discovery to Trump and his defense counsel, which includes “four discs of photographs, audio recordings, and material extracted from electronic devices.”
(NEW YORK) — The Trump Organization’s $250 million civil fraud trial will become a family affair Wednesday when Donald Trump Jr. becomes the first of former President Donald Trump’s children to take the witness stand.
The trial, which is in its fifth week, centers on allegations that Donald Trump and his business fraudulently inflated his net worth to get better loans, secure insurance deals and burnish his reputation as a highly successful businessman.
Trump, who has blasted the trial as being politically motivated, denies all wrongdoing and has appealed a pretrial ruling that he used fraudulent statements to do business.
New York Attorney General Letitia James initially named the three Trump children who served as Trump Organization executive vice presidents — Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump — as defendants in her lawsuit, alleging that they were “intimately involved” in operating the family’s business.
“The public desire to inflate his net worth was well known amongst his children,” James alleged in her complaint.
Ivanka Trump was subsequently dismissed from the AG’s lawsuit in June because she was no longer with the firm by 2016.
The three children are each scheduled to testify in the trial over the coming week, beginning with Donald Trump Jr. and possibly Eric Trump on Wednesday. Donald Trump is currently scheduled to testify on Monday, and Ivanka Trump will serve as the state’s final witness next Wednesday.
An ardent defender of his father on the campaign trail and on social media, Trump Jr. is expected to face questions about his role managing Trump’s revocable trust — the mechanism his father used to prevent potential business conflicts while he was president.
In that capacity, Trump Jr. certified the accuracy of financial statements between 2016 and 2021, each of which is alleged by the attorney general to have been inflated.
James alleges that Trump Jr. was particularly involved in the commercial leasing of 40 Wall Street — one of the properties that Judge Arthur Engoron has already decided was overvalued in Trump’s financial statements by more than $300 million.
Trump Jr. could also face questions about why financial statements allegedly inflated the value of rent-stabilized units in the Trump Park Avenue building by 700%, ignoring the fixed rent of the units’ low-income residents. According to James, Trump Jr. remarked that the rent-stabilized tenants in Trump’s Park Avenue Building were “the bane of [his] existence for quite some time.”
When co-defendants and former Trump Organization executives Allen Weisselberg and Jeffrey McConney took the stand earlier in the trial, both said that Trump Jr. was not personally involved in the preparation of his father’s statement of financial condition — the allegedly fraudulent document that underpins the state’s case.
“There was never a material misrepresentation made by Eric Trump or Donald Trump Jr,” their lawyer Clifford Robert said during his opening statement.
However, Weisselberg also testified that Trump Jr. and his siblings became more involved in running the Trump Organization once their father became president in 2016, and that they received documents showing the internal finances of the company.
“They wanted to get up to speed on how the business was running,” Weisselberg testified.
Emails from Trump Jr. have been included in evidence presented during the trial, including a 2017 email chain from the Trump Organization’s general counsel about the value of Trump’s triplex apartment in Trump Tower.
The forwarded email included a list of issues raised by a Forbes magazine reporter about Trump’s financial claims, including Trump’s claim that his penthouse was three times larger than its actual size of 10,996 square feet.
“Insane amount of stuff there,” Trump Jr. replied to the email.
Despite the error being called out, Trump Jr. and Weissberg still signed off on Trump’s 2016 financial statement that falsely claimed Trump’s triplex was 30,000 square feet and worth $327 million.
Ahead of his testimony, Trump Jr. has criticized the trial as a “sham” being held in a “kangaroo court.”
“It doesn’t matter what general practices and business will be. It doesn’t matter,” Trump Jr. said in a Monday interview with Newsmax.
“They have a narrative, they have an end goal, and they’ll do whatever it takes to get there,” he said, referring to the New York attorney general’s office.
(NEW YORK) — Suspected Maine gunman Robert Card allegedly targeted a bowling alley and bar he believed were broadcasting messages that he was a pedophile, according to an arrest warrant released Tuesday.
Card’s sister contacted police about two hours after the first shots were fired in last week’s rampage in Lewiston to say the suspect in the photograph authorities distributed was her brother, according to the warrant.
The sister told police that Card had “been delusional since a February 2023 bad break-up” and had lost weight, been hospitalized for mental health treatment and had stopped taking prescribed medication.
The sister told police Card believed the businesses where the shootings unfolded — Just-In-Time Recreation, a bowling alley, and Schemengees Bar & Grille — were broadcasting messages that he was a pedophile, according to the warrant.
At least 18 people were killed in the Oct. 25. mass shooting. Card was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound two days after a massive manhunt, officials said.
Card’s concerns over being labeled a pedophile began months before the shooting, according to a Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office incident report obtained by ABC News via records requests.
His son told a Sagadahoc County deputy that around January “he noticed his father was starting to claim that people were saying things about him, while out in public,” the deputy wrote in the report.
Card’s son said his father was “likely hearing voices or starting to experience paranoia,” a “re-occurring theme” as Card claimed derogatory things were being said about him, “such as calling him a pedophile,” the deputy wrote.
In July, Card — an Army reservist — accused fellow soldiers of calling him a pedophile before getting into a physical confrontation with one of them, according to a letter from Card’s Army reserve unit sent to the sheriff’s office.
That incident led to Card being evaluated by an Army psychologist who determined he needed further treatment; Card was taken to Four Winds Psychiatric Hospital in Katonah, New York for treatment and evaluation in mid-July and was released after 14 days, according to an email from a member of Card’s army reserve unit to the sheriff’s office.
The Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office conducted a health and welfare check on Card at the request of his Army unit in September “after they became concerned for his well-being,” the Army said Tuesday. A reserve soldier expressed concern that Card was going to commit a mass shooting, documents from the sheriff’s office show.
In a police incident report on the welfare check, a responding officer wrote it had come to the Army Reserves’ attention that “Card is having psychotic episodes where he is hearing voices that are insulting him calling him a pedophile.”
Card refused to answer the door, according to the incident report.
(NEW YORK) — A police officer has been charged with third-degree assault for cruelty against a person after he fired his taser several times at a suspect in an Oct. 14 incident in Naugatuck, Connecticut.
The officer, Nicholas Kehoss, was arrested on Monday after the Naugatuck Police Department released body camera video showing the incident in which Kehoss deployed his taser after a brief pursuit of 33-year-old Jarell Day, who police say was being arrested for stealing $200 worth of beer.
The four-minute, forty-five-second video shows the moment Officer Kehoss and fellow Naugatuck officer John Williams first encounter Day in his car with several cases of beer in the back seat. As Williams attempted to open the passenger door, Day drove off.
Kehoss pursued Day’s vehicle, ultimately catching up to him when Day crashed into a pole. Kehoss got out of his vehicle and started running after Day, yelling “better [expletive] stop” as he drew his taser and fired at Day.
Kehoss told Day to get on his stomach and activated his taser again as Day rolled to his stomach and said “Officer, I’m sorry, I don’t know what the [expletive] happened.” Kehoss put his hand on Day’s face as he grabbed his hands and placed them behind Day’s back.
Day continued to plead with Kehoss before the officer said, “You’re getting another ride,” and fired his taser again as Day laid on his stomach on the ground.
Documents provided to ABC News by the Naugatuck Police Department show Kehoss has been disciplined by the department several times during his 13-year tenure as a police officer.
Most recently, Kehoss was suspended in Aug. 2022 for completing a version of what Police Chief C. Colin McAllister described as a “boxing-in maneuver” during a traffic stop, a move not authorized during that type of incident.
In a letter to the Naugatuck Police Commission notifying of the disciplinary action taken against Kehoss, Chief McAllister said the same tactic and boxing-in maneuver was cited as the underlying cause that led to Kehoss discharging his firearm at a suspect during a traffic stop incident in 2020.
In 2017, Kehoss responded to help during an attempted traffic stop by another officer, in which Kehoss claimed he’d been struck by the vehicle. An investigation into the incident stated that video evidence showed that Kehoss’ vehicle “clearly had not” been hit, adding that while “this review is unable to provide that officer Kehoss made a false report that his cruiser was struck by the suspect vehicle, it does find the situation troubling and raises reasonable doubt.”
The investigation also recommended Kehoss be “verbally counseled in regards to making radio transmissions that could be construed as trying to justify a pursuit, and that his actions in any future pursuit reviews be closely examined.”
Day is currently facing charges for robbery, larceny, interfering with an officer/resisting, reckless driving and disobeying the signal of an officer but was released on a $200,000 bond.
Kehoss was released on a $50,000 bond on Monday and is scheduled to appear at Waterbury Superior Court on Nov. 8.
Kehoss and Day did not immediately respond to ABC News’ requests for comment.
(NEW YORK) — A man has been arrested after allegedly pulling a gun on a 6-year-old and pointing it at his head over Halloween candy, police say.
The incident occurred at approximately 7:25 p.m. on Saturday in Manhasset on Long Island, New York, when a 42-year-old mother was driving her daughter, two sons and nephew to a nearby residence to drop off a goody bag.
“The daughter was dropping a goody bag off at her friend’s house,” Nassau County Police Department said in a statement. “The daughter, 10, and son, 6, exited the vehicle and approached the house. They rang the doorbell and left a goody bag full of candy for Halloween on the porch, before returning to the vehicle.”
It was moments later when the woman’s daughter noticed that the address they dropped the goody bag may have been the wrong home and told her mother, police said in their statement.
“They returned to the address and the male, 6, exited the vehicle to retrieve the goody bag from the porch,” authorities continued. “At this time, the front door opened, a male stepped out of the house and pointed a black handgun at the victim’s head.”
The Nassau County Police Department were immediately notified of the event and the 43-year-old suspect — Michael Yifan Wen — was arrested without incident and charged with menacing in the second degree and endangering the welfare of a child.
Police say that he was arraigned the next day on Sunday at the First District Court in Hempstead, New York, but have not released any further information on the case.
The investigation into the incident is currently ongoing.
(SHILOH, Ala.) — In a small Alabama community, residents claim state officials have dodged accountability for what they call environmental racism.
After Black homeowners in the rural neighborhood of Shiloh raised concerns that a highway project caused widespread, repeated flooding on their properties, state officials used an aggressive legal tool to prevent the residents – and future owners of their land – from the possibility of holding the state government accountable through the court system, an ABC News investigation has found.
Three residents of the Shiloh community in Coffee County now have restrictive covenants on their property deeds that “absolutely release, remise, acquit and forever discharge” the Alabama Department of Transportation from responsibility for flood damage. In exchange for signing away these rights, they each received settlements of $5,000 or less, documents show.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and Transportation Director John Cooper signed the settlements on behalf of the state in 2020. Ivey has not responded to ABC News’ request for comment.
Timothy Williams, a pastor and restaurant owner whose family has owned land in Shiloh since Reconstruction, was one of few residents willing to speak with ABC News.
“They’re afraid of the state,” Williams said of neighbors who didn’t want to talk publicly. Williams now worries about the future of the land he’d planned to pass down to his four children.
Shiloh is located alongside U.S. Highway 84, which ALDOT and its contractors widened from a rural two-lane road to a major four-lane thoroughfare as part of a large-scale infrastructure project across several southern states known as the El Camino East-West Corridor. The local construction took place between 2017 and 2019.
When ALDOT announced the project in the 1990s, it touted El Camino as a way to improve safety and efficiency while increasing “the area’s economic development potential and industries’ accessibility to raw materials and markets.”
But Williams has a different take on the project’s actual impact.
“It didn’t help the community, but it hurt the community,” he said. “They took the highway and they elevated it and then forced all the water onto us. I mean, that’s just plain Jane.”
Williams and his neighbors say that since the highway expansion, their properties have flooded just about every time it has rained, causing major property damage along with an increase in frogs and snakes. The longtime residents say their land had never flooded before the project.
The Federal Highway Administration confirmed it is over a year into a civil rights investigation of the situation in Shiloh but would not elaborate and declined an interview request by ABC News. The FHWA website shows dozens of similar investigations into road projects around the country in recent years, but almost all were dismissed.
ALDOT also declined requests for an interview but wrote in a statement to ABC News that the agency believes no unfair treatment occurred in this case and that the project did not discriminate against anyone.
“In the settlements involving ALDOT, there were restrictive covenants to prevent future owners from filing claims because ALDOT maintains that it has not increased the volume of stormwater runoff being placed on the Shiloh Community,” the agency’s statement read. Still, ALDOT told ABC News they’ve hired a consultant to explore possible improvements to the drainage system.
Blake Hudson, Dean of Alabama’s Cumberland School of Law, reviewed the settlements and told ABC News residents could try to make a legal argument that the documents ALDOT called “restrictive covenants” are actually easements – essentially permission for a certain amount of flooding on their land – and that the agency is acting outside the scope of the easements because the flooding has now exceeded the compensated amount.
“That’s a much harder case to make if you knew your home flooded and then you still took the $5,000,” Hudson said. “Legally, those documents can protect the government from suit.”
But even if they are legally sound, he added, these deals may still be “unconscionable” and “unethical.”
Williams said when he signed the settlement, he had no idea how bad the flooding would get.
“We were all misled,” he told ABC News.
Other records obtained by ABC News show ALDOT has been aware of concerns associated with the widening project in Shiloh for nearly five years.
During construction, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management issued a letter warning that the project could violate the Alabama Water Pollution Control Act.
Other ALDOT forms noted that best management practices “have not been properly maintained” and that at one point, “the contractor was ordered to cease all work except items as listed on the corrective actions plan.”
In 2018, an ALDOT diary entry noted that Williams had expressed concern about water draining onto his property, and that he was told ALDOT would use the necessary practices to prevent excess runoff.
Several miles west of Shiloh, a beloved community day care center called The Young World of Learning also flooded during every rainstorm after the construction, which owners Peggy Carpenter and her daughter Ronda Robinson attributed to ALDOT’s widening of the highway.
“They did not think of us, not one time,” Carpenter told ABC News.
Carpenter and Robinson, who are white and did not live at the site of their business, say they ended up closing the day care and agreeing to sell a portion of the property to ALDOT for $165,000 because they were concerned the state would condemn it if they refused.
“I didn’t really want to sell,” Carpenter said. “I felt I had to. I wanted something for it.”
In the sale, Carpenter and Robinson also gave up their rights to sue for future damages. When they found out that the Black residents down the road from them had signed away similar rights but were only paid around $5,000, they were stunned.
“I can’t imagine,” Robinson said. “I feel for them.”
After the day care was sold and demolished, while flooding continued down the road in Shiloh, Williams turned to Coffee County native and Texas Southern University professor Dr. Robert Bullard, who helped coin the term “environmental justice” and has written 18 books on the topic.
“The state is saying that they didn’t cause this problem and there’s no problem,” Bullard told ABC News. “I would say bring your grandmother here to live for a month in one of these houses and they’ll see that it floods.”
Bullard added that Shiloh residents’ generational wealth “is being stolen,” calling the settlements “highway robbery.”
“You can’t do very much with $5,000,” he said. “From my perspective, when you sign a piece of paper for settling in terms of this highway, you didn’t sign away your life. You didn’t sign away your children’s inheritance to be taken away because of flooding [and] because of devaluation.”
Attorney Calle Mendenhall, who represented Williams and the other residents in negotiating the settlements, declined requests by ABC News for an interview.
“It is our policy not to discuss matters related to settlements or other sensitive matters in order to honor our unwavering commitment to providing the strongest legal representation possible,” Mendenhall wrote in an emailed statement.
Several Shiloh residents also reached sealed settlements with ALDOT contractor S.A. Graham & Co. and designer HMB Professional Engineers, both of whom did not respond to requests for comment.
“A settlement should mean that you have resolved something,” Bullard said. “The flooding is not resolved.”
After enduring more than five years of flooding, Williams wants the state government to accept responsibility and stop the devastation.
“All we want them to do is to own up and say, ‘Hey, we messed up,'” he said. But even if that doesn’t happen, Williams added, “We’re not moving. We’re not leaving. We’re going to fight.”
(WILLIMANTIC, Conn.) — A visiting nurse was found dead in the basement of a patient’s home in Connecticut, according to police, in what they called a “deeply troubling case.”
The nurse was reported missing by family on Saturday, according to the Willimantic Police Department. She had missed several appointments that day and a family member tracked her phone to the address of her first patient, scheduled for 8 a.m. ET that day, according to an affidavit.
Officers later found her red Hyundai at a business near the residence and a K-9 unit tracked her scent back to the home, police said.
Authorities learned that the patient who lived at the home — identified as 38-year-old Michael Reese — had a probation-issued ankle bracelet that alerted signs of tampering, according to the affidavit. Police observed him appearing to leave the home from the back door and he was detained, police said.
After he was detained, officers searched the residence and found the body of the woman in the basement, police said. Her name and cause of death have not been released.
Reese was found carrying a small paring knife, a crack pipe, debit and credit cards belonging to an individual whose name was redacted and a Hyundai key fob, according to the affidavit. He was arrested on charges unrelated to the deceased woman.
Reese is a registered sex offender with “violent tendencies,” the affidavit stated.
“This is a deeply troubling case on many levels, and one of the worst cases I have seen in 27 years in law enforcement,” Willimantic Police Chief Paul M. Hussey said in a statement. “Our condolences go out to the family of the victim.”
Connecticut State Police have taken over the investigation. No further details have been released.
No one has been charged in connection to the woman’s death.
Reese faces charges of violating probation, larceny and use of drug paraphernalia and was not present at his arraignment on Monday, New Haven ABC affiliate WTNH reported. He is currently being held on $1 million bond, online jail records show.
He was convicted of sexual assault in the first degree in 2007 and released in 2020, according to the state’s sex offender registry.
