Police: Group home resident charged with attempted murder
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Police say a group home resident in Kentucky was plotting to escape by drugging and stabbing a caregiver, but confessed before she could carry out the plan.
Elizabethtown police told news media outlets that 27-year-old Melissa Emerick was arrested Wednesday and charged with attempted murder.
Police spokesman Officer John Thomas said a second caregiver at the Community Alternatives of Kentucky home discovered just after midnight Tuesday that someone had broken into a locked medicine cabinet and questioned Emerick. Police said Emerick responded that she had stolen anti-psychotic medication and put it in a soft drink bottle to "incapacitate" the first caregiver so Emerick could stab her.
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Police said Emerick also planned to steal the first caregiver's cellphone, tablet and car.
Bond was set at $25,000. Online jail records did not list an attorney for Emerick.