Vehicle Theft Attempt Leads to Two Arrests

Two men were arrested after Paducah Police said they responded Friday night to a report of two people trying to steal a vehicle. 

Officers located 31-year-old Charles Mitchell on Bridge Court, and said he matched the description of one of the people. Mitchell was detained, but denied any knowledge of an attempted vehicle theft. He agreed to let officers search a bag he was carrying, and a silver butterfly knife was found inside. Mitchell was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed deadly weapon.

Meanwhile, officers noticed a second person walking toward the back of Bridge Court. They watched the person walk out from behind a building, and ordered him to stop. The man then fled across Irvin Cobb Drive, and behind a bank building. Officers found him behind the bank, sitting on a curb. He was identified as 20-year-old Clifton W. Towers.

Towers told officers that he had just swallowed a large amount of suboxone tablets, and had dropped the cigarette box in which he had been carrying them. Officers located the cigarette box, and Towers was arrested on charges of second-degree fleeing or evading police, second-degree possession of a controlled substance, and tampering with physical evidence.

Both Mitchell and Towers, reported as being homeless, were taken to the McCracken County Regional Jail.