article from local paper

Just to follow up from the other day.......here is the article from the Daily News about that incident.





Woman abandoned at tracks
Police say man left his pregnant girlfriend in vehicle with train coming
the Daily News
Published: August 8, 2007

Bowling Green Police Department officers found a man Tuesday shortly after he had parked a sport utility vehicle on railroad tracks with his pregnant girlfriend inside and walked away.

A train was headed south on the track when the white Mitsubishi Montero Sport was left. The woman was able to get out of the vehicle and the train was able to stop in time. Esteban Dejesus Lowery, 25, 5350 Louisville Road Lot 52, was charged with first-degree wanton endangerment.Krystal Juarbe, 18, who was Lowery’s girlfriend, was left inside the vehicle at the railroad tracks at Main Avenue at 10:25 a.m. Lowery took the keys with him when he abandoned the vehicle, said Officer Barry Pruitt, city police spokesman.

Juarbe lived with Lowery and she is seven months pregnant with his child.Police immediately began a search for Lowery and found him on foot at 10:45 a.m., Pruitt said.The two had been involved in an argument at the Warren County Justice Center, according to a city police report. Lowery was afraid that Juarbe was going to leave him in town and return to their house.Lowery grabbed Juarbe by the arm and dragged her back to the vehicle, according to the report. The two continued to argue and it was at that point Lowery parked the vehicle on the tracks and left.Dispatch notified CSX about the vehicle abandoned on the tracks and the company was able to stop its train heading southbound about 150 yards before it would have struck the vehicle, according to the report.

Lowery was found walking at West 12th Avenue and Vine Street. He denied knowing where the keys to the vehicle could be found, according to the report.The vehicle was towed off the railroad tracks. Lowery is in the Warren County Regional Jail on $10,000 bond.