BOONE COUNTY SHERIFF
MICHAEL A. HELMIG
P.O. BOX 198
BURLINGTON, KY. 41005-0198
Phone: 859-334-2175
FAX: 859-334-2234
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Tom Scheben, Spokesman
Public Information Services
859.334.3543
tscheben@boonecountyky.org
September 22, 2008
On Monday, September 22, 2008 at approximately 3:10 a.m. the night auditor at the County Inn Suites located at 759 Petersburg Road in Hebron, Kentucky reported being robbed at gunpoint by two men, one African American and the other Caucasian, both concealing their identities by wearing red bandanas. Money and the storage device for the security camera were reportedly taken.
Detective Bruce McVay arrested the night auditor, Joshua Napier, 25 of Independence, Kentucky for Falsely reporting an incident and two counts of Theft by unlawful taking over $300. An additional charge of Tampering with evidence is forthcoming.
Napier admitted to taking a customer’s laptop the night prior and devised this scheme to destroy the video of him taking the computer. Napier is being held in the Boone County Detention Center in lieu of a $2,000 bond.
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