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11/16/2018
By Tom Marshall
Senior Advocate writer
Ronald Glynn Triplett, who is charged with rape and kidnapping, underwent a medical exam last month so he can apply for disability compensation or pension benefits.
Triplett’s attorney, Dan Carman of Lexington, filed a motion seeking the medical exam at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Lexington to seek the benefits.
“As Ron enjoys the presumption of innocence, even if he remains in jail in the pretrial phase of the case, he should retain his claim for VA benefits due should he be exonerated,” Carman wrote.
Montgomery County Circuit Judge William “Bill” Lane granted the request and ordered the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office to transport Triplett to the facility on Leestown Road in Lexington Oct. 17.
He was returned to the Montgomery County Regional Jail upon completion of the appointment.
Triplett, 69, is scheduled to go on trial Jan. 28 on charges of rape and kidnapping allegedly involving a woman he abducted while she was walking downtown in 2016.
He allegedly took her to a building on East Main Street where she was repeatedly raped. The alleged crime was reportedly videotaped.
After that alleged crime, another woman reportedly came forward and a second rape charge was filed. Triplett was later apprehended in Michigan, where police reportedly seized a laptop, computers and cameras from a motel room where he was found.
Most recently, Triplett was charged with two counts of intimidating a participant in a legal process for reportedly writing harassing messages to an alleged victim on the walls at the jail recreation yard.
The victim was reportedly a jail trusty at the time.
Triplett was once included on the FBI’s Most Wanted List after he allegedly escaped from prison in Michigan in the 1980s where he was being held on robbery and attempted murder charges.
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