Grand jury returns indictments for sex crimes

A Christian County Grand Jury returned numerous indictments Friday, along with two no true bills.

Indicted for first-degree rape against a person incapable of giving consent/physically helpless is 65-year-old Michael Neal of Hopkinsville, who allegedly engaged in forcible sexual intercourse with a female victim who was considered physically helpless and unable to give consent due to her being on medication. Neal reportedly admitted to officers that he forced sexual contact with the victim one time on December 28.

 

 

Thirty-seven-year-old Derrick Antonio Gill of Hopkinsville is indicted on four counts of first-degree sodomy against a victim under 12 years of age.  He is allegedly to have engaged in deviant sexual intercourse with a female victim and causing serious physical injuries.  The offenses occurred between January of 2017 and December of 2022.

 

 

 

The grand jury indicted 40-year-old Leon Davie of Hopkinsville with first-degree rape, kidnapping, first-degree sodomy, first-degree strangulation, second-degree assault, tampering with physical evidence and intimidating a participant in the legal process. He allegedly attacked a female victim in January of this year, hitting her in the head with a lamp and a liquor bottle multiple times and taking her phone and keys from her. He’s also accused of choking her twice to the point she could not breathe, and marks were visible around her neck hours later.

He reportedly would not let her leave the residence and said the only way she could leave was if she had sex with him—she complied under fear of more physical violence.

 

Indicted for felony theft by unlawful taking of livestock is 26-year-old Speed Miller of Michigan after he allegedly took a horse without permission in January of 2022.

The no true bills, meaning the grand jury found the evidence presented was insufficient to prove the defendant committed the offenses, were returned on behalf of Brandon Nixon—who had been charged with theft by unlawful taking and theft by deception—and Lynda Sue Craft, who had been facing charges of trafficking in methamphetamine, trafficking in marijuana, illegal possession of a legend drug and possession of drug paraphernalia.  The no true bills dismiss the charges without prejudice.