Post by huntone on Oct 14, 2010 23:14:34 GMT -5
Blood found in home of man who last saw missing Florence teen
COVINGTON – The last person to be seen with missing 17-year-old Paige Johnson was arrested on a parole violation 11 days after the girl disappeared.
When parole officers went to Jacob Bumpass’s Taylor Mill home on Oct. 4 to arrest him, they found what appeared to be dried blood and two latex gloves in the kitchen sink. Police dogs searched the area around that home on Friday.
Bumpass, 22, tried to run from officers there to arrest him, according to affidavits for a series of search warrants for Bumpass’s home, two cars and several mobile phones.
Bumpass is not being called a suspect in the disappearance, Kenton Commonwealth’s Attorney Rob Sanders said Thursday, because there is no evidence that a crime was committed.
“A missing juvenile under suspicious circumstances is all they have now,” Sanders said.
He said there are too many non-criminal explanations to speculate on the significance of the substance recovered in the sink. The substance has not yet been forensically tested.
Bumpass was last seen picking up Johnson, mother of a 2-year-old girl, Sept. 23 at the home she shared with her mother in Florence.
Johnson’s family has worked with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to put up about 1,000 missing persons posters across the region but there have been no confirmed sighting of the teen. She left home with no credit cards and no mobile phone.
Covington police Lt. Col. Spike Jones said Bumpass, who grew up in Crestview Hills and attended Dixie Heights High School, isn’t cooperating and has hired a lawyer.
“We would hope if he has information that would return Paige to her family that he would share that with us,” Jones said.
The probation violation Bumpass is being held on is for not informing authorities that he had quit his job and having alcohol at his home. Covington police Detective Bryan Frodge wrote in the affidavit that investigators confirmed that Bumpass had given the under-aged Johnson alcohol in the hours leading up to her disappearance.
Bumpass was paroled in August 2009 after serving two years, nine months and 19 days of an eight-year sentence on two counts of theft by unlawful taking out of Kenton and Boone counties, according to the corrections department.
Frodge wrote in an affidavit for a search warrant that Bumpass was “not being truthful about the times and locations he was with Johnson.” The detective’s opinion was based on cell phone towers Bumpass’s phone had accessed, or “pinged,” the night of Johnson’s disappearance.
Bumpass told investigators that he had dropped off Johnson at about 1 a.m. Sept. 23 in the area of 15th and Scott streets in Covington.
Investigators traced the pinging starting at 1 a.m. on a series of towers that stretched from near Johnson’s home in Florence to 4 a.m. at East Fork State Park in Clermont County. The “pings” then continue as the phone travels back south through Cincinnati and ultimately to Wilder at 10 a.m.
Bumpass changed his phone number after Johnson’s disappearance but retained the same phone, according to one affidavit.
Another affidavit states Bumpass’ friend told investigators that Bumpass’ brother extensively cleaned his own 1999 Black Mazda two or three days after Johnson’s disappearance. The brothers had shared the car in the days after the disappearance.
The friend said he found it odd because the brother didn’t generally keep his car clean, according to the affidavit.
Investigators have searched the Mazda along with a 2008 black Hyundai registered in Ohio to a Linda Bumpass. The paperwork didn’t indicate Linda Bumpass’ relationship to Jacob Bumpass.
An inventory of what police have recovered from the search warrants had not been filed in the district court clerk’s office as of Thursday afternoon.
Anyone with any information on Paige Johnson is asked to contact the Covington police at 859-292-2222 or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 800-843-5678.
Johnson is 5-foot-1, 110 pounds with brown eyes and light brown hair with high-lights. Her ears, tongue and navel are pierced.
COVINGTON – The last person to be seen with missing 17-year-old Paige Johnson was arrested on a parole violation 11 days after the girl disappeared.
When parole officers went to Jacob Bumpass’s Taylor Mill home on Oct. 4 to arrest him, they found what appeared to be dried blood and two latex gloves in the kitchen sink. Police dogs searched the area around that home on Friday.
Bumpass, 22, tried to run from officers there to arrest him, according to affidavits for a series of search warrants for Bumpass’s home, two cars and several mobile phones.
Bumpass is not being called a suspect in the disappearance, Kenton Commonwealth’s Attorney Rob Sanders said Thursday, because there is no evidence that a crime was committed.
“A missing juvenile under suspicious circumstances is all they have now,” Sanders said.
He said there are too many non-criminal explanations to speculate on the significance of the substance recovered in the sink. The substance has not yet been forensically tested.
Bumpass was last seen picking up Johnson, mother of a 2-year-old girl, Sept. 23 at the home she shared with her mother in Florence.
Johnson’s family has worked with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to put up about 1,000 missing persons posters across the region but there have been no confirmed sighting of the teen. She left home with no credit cards and no mobile phone.
Covington police Lt. Col. Spike Jones said Bumpass, who grew up in Crestview Hills and attended Dixie Heights High School, isn’t cooperating and has hired a lawyer.
“We would hope if he has information that would return Paige to her family that he would share that with us,” Jones said.
The probation violation Bumpass is being held on is for not informing authorities that he had quit his job and having alcohol at his home. Covington police Detective Bryan Frodge wrote in the affidavit that investigators confirmed that Bumpass had given the under-aged Johnson alcohol in the hours leading up to her disappearance.
Bumpass was paroled in August 2009 after serving two years, nine months and 19 days of an eight-year sentence on two counts of theft by unlawful taking out of Kenton and Boone counties, according to the corrections department.
Frodge wrote in an affidavit for a search warrant that Bumpass was “not being truthful about the times and locations he was with Johnson.” The detective’s opinion was based on cell phone towers Bumpass’s phone had accessed, or “pinged,” the night of Johnson’s disappearance.
Bumpass told investigators that he had dropped off Johnson at about 1 a.m. Sept. 23 in the area of 15th and Scott streets in Covington.
Investigators traced the pinging starting at 1 a.m. on a series of towers that stretched from near Johnson’s home in Florence to 4 a.m. at East Fork State Park in Clermont County. The “pings” then continue as the phone travels back south through Cincinnati and ultimately to Wilder at 10 a.m.
Bumpass changed his phone number after Johnson’s disappearance but retained the same phone, according to one affidavit.
Another affidavit states Bumpass’ friend told investigators that Bumpass’ brother extensively cleaned his own 1999 Black Mazda two or three days after Johnson’s disappearance. The brothers had shared the car in the days after the disappearance.
The friend said he found it odd because the brother didn’t generally keep his car clean, according to the affidavit.
Investigators have searched the Mazda along with a 2008 black Hyundai registered in Ohio to a Linda Bumpass. The paperwork didn’t indicate Linda Bumpass’ relationship to Jacob Bumpass.
An inventory of what police have recovered from the search warrants had not been filed in the district court clerk’s office as of Thursday afternoon.
Anyone with any information on Paige Johnson is asked to contact the Covington police at 859-292-2222 or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 800-843-5678.
Johnson is 5-foot-1, 110 pounds with brown eyes and light brown hair with high-lights. Her ears, tongue and navel are pierced.