DeMarcus Johnson-Wright was charged with murder after April Celio was found dead in Pineville.

The warrants are the charges. They are not a finding that Johnson-Wright killed April Celio, and they are not a finding about a pregnancy. WYMT reported he was booked into the Montgomery County Detention Center to await extradition to Kentucky. No Kentucky arraignment has been reported.

The Pineville Police Department said officers responded on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026, to a dead person in the 300 block of George Martin Drive in Pineville, Kentucky, WYMT reported. Officers and the Bell County Coroner's Office determined that 41-year-old April (Barlow) Celio was the victim of a homicide. On Thursday, Sept. 24, WYMT reported, investigators developed information that she was pregnant at the time of her death. The State Medical Examiner's Office found no fetus in the womb. While processing the scene, Pineville police, the Bell County Sheriff's Office, and Kentucky State Police recovered what investigators and medical examiners believed to be fetal remains. That is the examiners' finding and the investigators' description of what was recovered at the scene. It is not testimony a jury has heard.

WYMT reported the investigation identified DeMarcus Kenneth Johnson-Wright, and that police said he had an extensive violent criminal history and several outstanding violent felony warrants out of Tennessee. A police description of an earlier history is not a conviction in this case. On Friday, Sept. 25, Bell County District Court issued warrants for robbery, first degree, and kidnapping, adult, WYMT and WBKO reported. On Wednesday, Sept. 30, the same court issued warrants for murder, domestic violence, and tampering with physical evidence. WSMV, citing the U.S. Marshals Service, reported those same dates and counts, and said the Bell County Sheriff's Office identified Celio. The Middlesboro News reported Johnson-Wright is of Clarksville, Tennessee. The counts on the warrants are robbery, kidnapping, murder, and tampering with physical evidence. No age for him appears in those accounts.

WYMT reported investigators developed information that Johnson-Wright was living in the 200 block of Timber Court Drive in Clarksville, Tennessee. The U.S. Marshals Central Kentucky Fugitive Task Force asked for help from the Middle Tennessee Fugitive Task Force in Nashville, the Clarksville Police Department Special Operations Unit, and the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office K-9 unit. At or around 11 p.m. CST on Sept. 30, those agencies arrested him at that address, WYMT reported. WBKO reported the arrest at approximately 11 p.m. CST. He was taken to the Clarksville police Special Operations office for an interview with Bell County sheriff's investigators and the Marshals. A search warrant for the home was granted, and investigators recovered materials relating to the case. The accounts do not say what those materials were. WYMT, WBKO, WSMV, and the Middlesboro News reported he was booked into the Montgomery County Detention Center in Tennessee to await extradition to Kentucky. FOX 17's Oct. 7 report of the Clarksville arrest did not say he had been taken to Kentucky. An arrest on an out-of-state warrant is not an arraignment. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.