LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- An arraignment hearing was held Saturday for the man charged with abducting a family from an east Louisville neighborhood and robbing a bank Friday morning.
A not-guilty plea was entered for 32-year old Armond Langford on five counts of robbery, one count of kidnapping an adult, two counts of kidnapping a minor and one count of assault.
Langford was not in court for the hearing because the judge said he was not cooperative. A public defender entered a not-guilty plea to the charges on his behalf.
Police said Langford broke into a woman's home just before 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 8, and drove her and her two children to a PNC Bank on Shelbyville Road. He then demanded cash from tellers working the drive-thru.
"A man came through the drive-thru, had a weapon inside the vehicle believed to be a knife, and a woman was inside as well," said LMPD police spokesperson Dwight Mitchell. "He demanded the business cash and received an undetermined amount."
The woman was assaulted during the robbery, but Mitchell said her injuries weren't life-threatening. The children weren't physically harmed, but Mitchell said "it was very traumatic."
Police searched for Langford for about six hours before he was taken into custody around 4:20 p.m. Friday afternoon near a Best Buy on Shelbyville Road, not far from the scene of the bank robbery.
Langford remains jailed at Louisville Metro Corrections until his next scheduled court date on Aug. 11.
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