Missing Kentucky child, 13, found with 37-year-old man wanted for escape
A missing 13-year-old girl from Louisville was found in Knox County on Thursday in the company of a 37-year-old man who was wanted on outstanding warrants, according to the Barbourville Police Department.
The girl had been reported missing Jan. 4.
The London office of the U.S. Marshals Service’s Central Kentucky Fugitive Task Force was notified on Thursday that she was thought to be with Michael Dunn, 37, the police department said in a social media post.
Dunn had been wanted in Jefferson County since June on felony warrants including second-degree escape and tampering with a prisoner monitoring device. He also was wanted for probation violations for receiving stolen property and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, police said, as well as first-degree possession of a controlled substance.
Dunn “was known to be armed, dangerous, and trafficking narcotics,” police said.
At about 10:50 p.m. Thursday, the U.S. Mashals, with help from the Knox County Sheriff’s Office and the Barbourville Police Department, learned that Dunn and the girl were walking south on the 3100 block of U.S. 25E in Barbourville.
Task force officers, deputies and officers confronted them and took Dunn into custody, police said.
The missing child was safely recovered and taken to a local hospital. She was medically cleared and reunited with her family at about 3:30 a.m. Friday.
Dunn was taken to the Knox County Detention Center and charged with first-degree trafficking in controlled substance (methamphetamine), trafficking marijuana, possession of controlled substances — first offense (methamphetamine), theft by failure to make required disposition of property and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon.
Police said they recovered two handguns, marijuana, methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.
