Two Louisa residents arrested following incident at housing project

By Lilly Adkins

BSN Associate Editor

LOUISA — Two people were arrested Monday after Louisa police officer Michael Housinger and Lawrence County Sheriff’s Deputy Mason Keefer responded to a complaint involving an altercation.

Tiara A. Curry, 26, of Louisa, is charged with third-degree escape, resisting arrest, first-degree disorderly conduct and third-degree terroristic threatening.

Carlos Hammond, 38, also of Louisa, is charged with second-degree fleeing or evading police on foot; tampering with physical evidence; and first-degree possession of a controlled substance, methamphetamine. He was also served with two bench warrants for court.

According to the arrest reports, Housinger said that they were dispatched to Bird Hayes Manor in Louisa for a female who was starting a fight. Upon the officer’s arrival, she was screaming “she was going to beat her,” and that was when she was arrested.

Curry managed to get the back window down and the door open on the cruiser, and she fled on foot, the report said, but she was apprehended a few houses away.

Curry does not live in the apartment, the report said, and the fight was over her boyfriend.

Keefer said in his report that he stopped Hammond on Madison Street, and he attempted to flee on a bike approximately half of a block before running through a yard on foot. As Keefer tracked him, Hammond was throwing items from his pockets, the report said. After he was cuffed, Keefer found a knife, cash and a baggie of methamphetamine on the ground, the report said.

Both Curry and Hammond were taken into custody and transported to the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Johnson County.