A man wanted for a 2015 Columbus murder and who skipped bond last year has been found in Iowa.
Deputies with the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office out of Clinton, Iowa — along with members of a U.S. Marshal’s task force — arrested 32-year-old Billy Kennedy in Clinton Friday on a murder warrant out of Columbus, according to authorities at the Clinton County Sheriff’s Office.
Kennedy was charged with murder in the February 2015 shooting of 41-year-old Carl Miller Jr. After being arrested in March 2015, Kennedy was released from the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center after posting $25,000 bond. He skipped a court hearing in Lowndes County Circuit Court in December 2016, according to Lowndes County Circuit Court records.
Kennedy’s bond was initially set at $1 million, but then-Municipal Judge Marc Amos reduced it to $25,000 in September 2015, according to Lowndes County jail records. He was released from jail after posting that bond.
Circuit court documents show a grand jury indicted Kennedy for murder in January 2016. His bond was then raised to $100,000, and he posted the additional amount.
A jail administrative assistant at the Clinton County Jail confirmed Kennedy is being held without bond on an out-of-state hold.
Lowndes County Adult Detention Center Administrator Rick Jones said no one from Clinton County has reached out to the jail, but that the transportation of Kennedy will likely be handled by the U.S. Marshal’s Services. Supervisors with the U.S. Marshal’s Task Force in Lowndes County could not be reached for comment.
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