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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.
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