{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The News Journal","provider_url":"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net","title":"Inmate accused in kidnapping, ransom conspiracy &ndash; The News Journal","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ezUkfI09j8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/inmate-accused-kidnapping-ransom-conspiracy\/\">Inmate accused in kidnapping, ransom conspiracy<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/inmate-accused-kidnapping-ransom-conspiracy\/embed\/#?secret=ezUkfI09j8\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Inmate accused in kidnapping, ransom conspiracy&#8221; &#8212; The News Journal\" data-secret=\"ezUkfI09j8\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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In addition to conspiracy to commit kidnapping, Doyle Fox, 49, is also charged with theft by extortion $10,000 or more. After determining that there was enough evidence to send the case to the grand jury, Whitley District Judge Fred White raised Fox&#8217;s bond from $25,000 to $100,000 cash. If Fox posts bond, he will also be required to wear an ankle-monitoring device, White ordered. Fox had been in the Whitley County Detention Center on a probation violation charge since Feb. 20 when he was arrested April 26 on his new charges. Williamsburg Police Detective Bobby Freeman is the investigating officer in the case and he was the sole witness to testify during Monday&#8217;s nine-minute hearing. Freeman said the investigation started on April 21 after Whitley County Jailer Brian Lawson contacted Williamsburg police about a report from one of Fox&#8217;s cellmates, who had information about an extortion and kidnapping plot. The other inmate was identified during Monday&#8217;s hearing as Samuel Hatfield. After police interviewed Hatfield, Freeman said he was placed back in Fox&#8217;s cell with a hidden recorder on him. &#8220;According to the inmate, they discussed what would happen,&#8221; Freeman said. After Hatfield was released from custody, the plan was for him to contact a Corbin accountant, whose named wasn&#8217;t revealed in court, in an effort to get money. Freeman said that Fox allegedly had a telephone that contained text messages between the accountant and another woman, who was not his wife. Hatfield was supposed to keep some of the money from the accountant, and give Fox part of it, Freeman testified. Williamsburg Police Chief Wayne Bird declined to identify the name of the accountant during an interview Friday morning. The other part of the plan was to kidnap the less than 20-month-old daughter of Fox&#8217;s sister. The sister, who police didn&#8217;t identify, works at a Lexington bank and the plan was to exchange the infant for $50,000, Freeman testified. Freeman said that you can hear part of the recording. There is a lot of background noise in it and Freeman said he plans to send the recording to the Kentucky State Police Crime Lab to see if they can clean it up. After Hatfield was released, he also went to visit Fox twice at the jail. Both visits in the jail&#8217;s visiting booth were recorded, but Freeman said one of the recordings couldn&#8217;t be accessed due to a technical problem at the jail. Hatfield has several charges pending. Freeman said there is no agreement in place regarding Hatfield&#8217;s criminal charges in exchange for his cooperation in the Fox case. When Freeman interviewed Fox, he denied the allegations completely and said they were not true. &#8220;He said he was just kidding,&#8221; Freeman said. The plots had apparently been in the works for about two weeks prior to police learning about them. After Freeman concluded his testimony, public advocate Brian Reeves argued that the entirety of the case is based upon an interview with Hatfield. &#8220;He may be looking for favor regarding his cases,&#8221; Reeves contended. White ruled there was sufficient evidence to bind the case over to the grand jury. Freeman said he plans to present the case to the grand jury next month for possible indictment. Reeves noted that Fox expects to meet with the parole board soon and he asked White to reduce Fox&#8217;s bond in this latest case in the event his client is paroled. White didn&#8217;t even wait for a response from Assistant Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Ben Davis before raising Fox&#8217;s bond to $100,000 cash. Fox has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Reeves declined to make any comments on Fox&#8217;s behalf following Monday&#8217;s hearing. Bird said that he doesn&#8217;t think Fox could have carried out the kidnapping plan, but he noted it was a &#8220;very well thought out plan.&#8221; Bird, who has been in law enforcement for 21 years, said this case was &#8220;the oddest thing I have encountered. I have never had anything like it.&#8221; Bird said during an interview Friday that he is also investigating Fox for program assistance fraud. Since Fox was incarcerated in February, his food stamp card has been in continued use the entire time he has been in custody. Bird said that he plans to present evidence against Fox and others in the food stamp fraud case to a Whitley County Grand Jury. &#8220;Just because people are in jail doesn&#8217;t mean they stop committing crime,&#8221; he added. No stranger to the law On July 18, 2003, Fox engaged in an 11-hour standoff with Corbin police. He barricaded himself into his Fairview Avenue home after missing a circuit court appearance, and allegedly fired a single shot when police showed up to arrest him. Fox had been scheduled to be tried that day on a robbery charge. Fox faced separate charges in connection with an incident days earlier involving the robbery of a local woman. On Nov. 20, 2003, Fox and two other prisoners were being escorted back to their cell following a church service in the multi-purpose room at the jail, when they jumped a guard. The inmates used a belt and cord to restrain the guard&#8217;s hands and feet and put a sock in his mouth before locking him in the cell. They then took his keys, and fled from the back of the jail towards the front door. Two other deputy jailers spotted them before they left the facility. Fox pleaded guilty in July 2004 to being a convicted felon in possession of a handgun and first-degree bail jumping stemming in connection with the standoff, and to amended charges of second-degree robbery in the two robbery cases. Fox also pleaded guilty to third-degree assault and unlawful imprisonment in connection with the escape case. He received a 22-year prison sentence in connection with those cases, but was later paroled."}