THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, September 3, 1994 TAG: 9409030441
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: BY PERRY PARKS, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: AVON LENGTH: Medium: 61 lines
A local family played a bigger role than it planned in helping Dare County Sheriff's officers catch a Pennsylvania fugitive on Friday.
First, Frank Folb's 22-year-old daughter, Missy, loaned officers her car to help in the arrest. And more than two hours after the man eluded authorities, he was found hiding in the attic of Folb's daughter Tammy, 26.
``It all happened within a radius of a quarter-mile of the shop,'' said Folb, who co-owns Frank and Fran's tackle shop with his wife. ``It was a lot of excitement, and not a whole lot to it.''
Kelly J. Kingston, 28, of Williamsport, Pa., was arrested about 12:30 p.m. and was being held at the Dare County Detention Center under $200,000 bond, the sheriff's office said.
Kingston, wanted in Pennsylvania for a parole violation and in the larceny of a motor vehicle, was charged Friday with being a fugitive from justice and with felonious assault on a law enforcement officer.
The sheriff's office said Investigator S.W. Pledger was hit with a piece of furniture while trying to arrest Kingston at 10 a.m. at the Big Wave Diner, where Kingston had worked since Wednesday.
Kingston then ran from the restaurant, officials and witnesses said.
Restaurant owner Lynn-Marie Krenzel said Kingston had given a different name when he was hired as a dishwasher. He had caused ``no problems,'' she said.
Also arrested Friday was Robert D. Arnold, 43, of Avon, a restaurant employee, the sheriff's office said. Arnold was charged with delaying and obstructing an officer after someone grabbed Pledger while he was trying to arrest Kingston.
Arnold was released Friday on an unsecured bond, officials said.
The search started after Dare County officials received word from Pennsylvania authorities Thursday night that Kingston was living and working in Avon.
Folb said officers came to his shop Friday morning and asked to borrow a car so Kingston would not be alerted to officials' arrival. After Kingston ran from the restaurant, Dare officials were assisted in their search by the National Park Service and the Division of Marine Fisheries.
The U.S. Coast Guard and North Carolina Highway Patrol manned road blocks at the Hatteras Inlet Ferry and the Oregon Inlet bridge during the search, officials said.
``There was police everywhere, it seemed like,'' Folb said. He said the family had never met Kingston.
Kingston did not resist when found in Folb's daughter's home, which he apparently broke into, officials said.
Two handguns were found in a another home, where Kingston had been living, officials said. The guns had been reported stolen in two separate burglaries in Pennsylvania.
Kingston is scheduled for a first appearance in Manteo District Court on Tuesday, the sheriff's office said.
KEYWORDS: ASSAULT ARREST by CNB