A Lexington man who spent over 24 years in prison for murdering a 14-year-old Scott County girl in 1996 has been charged with confinement by Crothersville Police
Jeremy Nathan Jones, 46, of Polk Road in Lexington was arrested on a preliminary charge of criminal confinement by Crothersville Police Officer Mark Reynolds early Saturday morning, July 8 and was booked into the Jackson County Jail at 7:01 a.m. where he is being held without bond.
According to Crothersville Police Department Assistant Chief Jonathon Tabor, Jones’ arrest occurred during an investigation into a report from two juvenile females that a man had attempted to kidnap them early Saturday morning.
The females initially approached Crothersville Officer Mark Reynolds at about 2 a.m. Saturday and told him a man in an olive green Dodge Challenger had stopped them in the area of Armstrong Street and Marshall Drive.
The girls said the man had asked both of them to get into his car, Tabor said.
While talking with the man, the females decided if one of them did not get into the vehicle, the man would cause them physical harm, Tabor said.
One of the two females ultimately got into the vehicle with the male and then decided she wanted out and told the man, Tabor said.
The man, however, would not stop the vehicle, but the female was able to jump out of the vehicle while it was still moving and get away, Tabor said.
During the investigation, Reynolds was able to obtain a license plate number for the vehicle and requested assistance from the Scott County Sheriff’s Department to locate it, Tabor said.
The vehicle was then located at a residence on Polk Road in eastern Scott County, and Jones was identified as a suspect.
After being questioned, Jones was arrested by Reynolds, who was assisted by officers with the Jackson County and Scott County sheriff’s departments. The incident remains under investigation, police reported.
On April 15, 1997, Jones was sentenced in Scott Circuit Court to 60 years in prison after being convicted of the murder of Lena Tennille Righthouse of Lexington.