Background Check Missed
Previous Carroll Arrests In KY
First posted: 9/6/2006 5:55:19 PM
It appears the Carrolls' background wasn't as clean as the foster
agency, Lifeway For Youth, first thought.
David Carroll had been arrested in
1997 in northern Kentucky.
In 2004, Liz Carroll had been
arrested on a theft charge.
The state of Ohio did conduct a
background check through its criminal identification bureau, and
it's true, the Carrolls' records were clean.
But the only problem is that it
doesn't appear Lifeway checked the court records across the river in
Kentucky.
The glowing reports from the Ohio
Attorney General's Bureau of Criminal Identification and
Investigation states neither of the Carrolls were ever arrested for
a crime.
But a check of court records in Boone
County reveals David Carroll did have a prior criminal record.
In 1997 he was arrested at the old
Lazarus store in Florence.
A court clerk says the shoplifting
conviction was never expunged, so it remains a part of the public
record.
In Ohio, Milford police did confirm
that Liz Carroll was arrested in 2004 and charged with stealing from
her employer, a Target store.
When logging on to the internet to
see if a national criminal background company would be able to find
the conviction, the check came back clean for David Carroll.
Some local attorneys say they're not
surprised.
Attorney Yvette Simpson with
Keating, Muething
and Klekamp logged onto the internet to see if she could dig up
anything on the couple accused of murdering 3-year-old Marcus Fiesel.
"I was able to check Kentucky courts
and no records came up in Boone County," Simpson said.
The state of Ohio explains David
Carroll's arrest went unnoticed by the state because by law when
asked to conduct a background check the search is only state-wide.
9News checked to see why Liz
Carroll's conviction didn't show up.
A court clerk in Clermont County said
she couldn't find it.
It's possible since the arrest
occurred in Milford, it was never sent over to the county to be
recorded.
http://www.wcpo.com/news/2006/local/09/06/carroll_arrests.html
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