Blooming Grove man struck neighbors with car, cops say


By Raja Abdulrahim
Times Herald-Record
February 01, 2008

 

BLOOMING GROVE — Two people were arrested Wednesday
after an investigation into a Jan.12 incident in which one man
is accused of trying to run his neighbors over with his car.

Police say Francis Kearsing, 53, struck the neighbor and the
neighbor's son as the father and son were standing on
Paradise Trail in the Mountain Lodge Park subdivision.

Kearsing was charged with attempted assault with a weapon, a felony.  He was taken to Orange County Jail,
where he was being held in lieu of $5,000 cash bail, Blooming Grove town police said.

He was also charged with menacing, attempted assault and reckless endangerment, all misdemeanors.
The father was hit in the leg and injured and the son was pushed back by the bumper.
The son was not hurt.

At the scene that day, Kearsing said he had not hit the pair with the car and that he in fact had been assaulted.
But the victim provided unedited video that showed what actually transpired,
police said." The statements were completely false," said Detective Brett Weeden.  

There has been a dispute between the neighbors for years and the video cameras were mounted in response
to the ongoing dispute, Weeden said. Another neighbor, Jayne S. Read, 46, who was not involved in the
attempted assault, was charged with giving a false statement,
a misdemeanor, when she denied Kearsing had tried to run the father and son over.

She was also taken to Orange County Jail, where she was being held in lieu of $500 cash bail.

 

rabdulrahim@th-record.com
 

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