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Tuesday, July 28, 1998
Fugitive caught in Reno; missing children found
By Sandra Chereb
Associated Press
RENO -- An Ohio fugitive was arrested and three children missing for two weeks were found Monday after a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper made a routine license plate check.
Brian Scott Mayhorn, 32, wanted on a warrant from Ohio on a charge of raping a 13-year-old girl, was arrested without incident following the check of his license plate by Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Bob Woodruff.
Police in Minerva, Ohio, and the FBI have been looking for Mayhorn in connection with the disappearance of three siblings -- Tyler Brown, 14; Amanda Palmer, 11; and Wayne Palmer, 10.
The children, who were in Mayhorn's car when he was arrested, were last seen by their mother on July 13.
"It appears that they knew who this guy was," Highway Patrol spokesman Tony Almaraz said of the children. "They didn't appear to have any fear at the time of the arrest."
The children were placed in protective custody. It was not immediately known when they would be reunited with their family, Almaraz said. They did not appear to be harmed.
Mayhorn was booked into the Washoe County Jail on the fugitive warrant pending extradition proceedings. He could be arraigned later this week.
The mother, Michele Palmer, told investigators the children were watching television when she went to an all-night store outside Minerva, about 60 miles southeast of Cleveland.
Because they were supposed to go to bed after they were finished watching TV, Palmer said she assumed they were asleep when she returned about two hours later.
She discovered them missing the next morning, and called police after checking with nearby relatives.
The case was featured on a recent episode of the TV show "America's Most Wanted."
Police in Minerva have described Mayhorn as a drifter, and said he had lived for about a year at a motel near town that is owned by the children's grandmother.
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