Mother charged with abandoning child in Colerain Township arrested in Kentucky Saturday
The Indiana mother accused of abandoning her child in Colerain Township Thursday was arrested in Georgetown, Kentucky, Saturday evening, according to Scott County Detention Center arrest records.
According to Georgetown Police, officers responded to reports of an unwanted person knocking on car windows at a gas station Saturday evening.
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When officers arrived, police said the woman in question began acting strangely, and when asked questions, provided a fake name to the police.
Georgetown Police said that after checking the woman's social security number, they were able to identify the woman as Heather Nicole Adkins, 32, from Shelbyville, Indiana.
According to arrest records, Adkins was booked into the Scott County Detention Center at 8:09 p.m.
Police said that after running Adkins' social security, they found an outstanding warrant for her arrest in Kentucky from 2011 for failure to pay a fine.
Georgetown Police said they were not aware of charges filed by Colerain Police at the time of Adkins' arrest. An officer told The Enquirer that police were made aware of the other charges after media personnel contacted the Georgetown department.
Colerain Police said that the two departments confirmed Sunday that the arrest made was the same Heather Nicole Adkins that was charged for abandoning her five-year-old earlier this week.
On Thursday, Colerain Police said a driver called 911 and reported a boy walking alone at the corner of Sheed Road and Gaines Road.
It was later determined by police that Adkins had driven her child 75 miles from Shelbyville, Indiana, to Colerain Township and left him there. The child was located by the driver an hour later.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Mother charged with abandoning child arrested in Kentucky Saturday
