A woman’s hospital visit and a search warrant became central to an attempted fetal homicide charge.
GLASGOW, Ky. — A pregnancy-related medication report at a south-central Kentucky hospital led police to charge a 26-year-old Bowling Green man with attempted fetal homicide, according to state police and court accounts.
The case now sits in the court system after investigators said a Glasgow woman reported that pills prescribed to her had been replaced with a different medication. Abdulah Mohmand is accused of making the switch while the woman was pregnant. Police say matching medication was later found during a search of his home. The allegation has raised a narrow factual question for investigators and prosecutors: whether the wrong pills were secretly placed in the woman’s medication to affect the pregnancy.
The first known stop in the public timeline was T.J. Samson Community Hospital in Glasgow. Reports from a preliminary hearing said the woman checked in there after discovering that her progesterone, a prescribed hormone, appeared to have been switched with misoprostol. The hospital visit brought the matter to law enforcement. Glasgow police contacted Kentucky State Police, and Post 3 was notified at about 7:30 a.m. May 25. The woman told authorities that her boyfriend had replaced her prescription medication with something unknown and that she feared for the safety of her unborn child. From there, state police began an investigation that quickly moved from the hospital report to a residential search.
Police identified the boyfriend as Mohmand, a Bowling Green resident. A search warrant was obtained for his residence after the woman’s report, state police said. During that search, investigators found medication that matched the unknown medication located at the woman’s residence. Later reports identified the medication as misoprostol. The drug has several medical uses, but reports in the case focused on its use in medical abortion and labor induction. Police did not release a full lab report publicly, and they did not say in their first statement how the match was confirmed. The central allegation remained that the woman expected to take one medication but instead found another.
Court documents cited in news reports described a possible motive. The woman told investigators that Mohmand had said his family lived in Afghanistan and would not approve of him having a child with her. The documents quoted her account that Mohmand said they “could not have a baby because his family would kill him.” Investigators also said Mohmand denied knowing about the suspicious pills. Reports say he told authorities he had agreed to have the baby. When police showed him a bottle of misoprostol that they said was found at his residence, he requested a lawyer and stopped answering questions. That point became part of the public record through reports citing court documents.
The court process began with an arrest and booking in Barren County. Mohmand was charged with first-degree attempted fetal homicide and lodged in the Barren County Detention Center. State police announced the charge in a short release on May 25, saying the investigation was ongoing and would be led by Detective Jason Warinner. Local reports later described a preliminary hearing at which Kentucky State Police Detective Aaron Hampton testified about how the case reached the agency. The hearing did not decide whether Mohmand committed the crime. It allowed a judge to hear enough of the state’s evidence to decide whether the felony charge should continue toward grand jury review.
The legal record has not yet answered several key questions. Police have not publicly said how many pills were involved, how long the medication may have been switched, whether the woman took any of the misoprostol or what medical findings were made after she went to the hospital. The public accounts also do not state whether the unborn child survived or whether the pregnancy was medically affected. State police used careful language in the original release, saying only that the woman was pregnant, had concerns for her unborn child and reported that her prescription medication had been replaced. Later reports filled in the drug name and the alleged motive through court documents and testimony.
The charge itself points to the seriousness of the allegation. First-degree attempted fetal homicide is a felony in Kentucky, and local coverage reported that the offense can carry a prison range of five to 10 years if a defendant is convicted. A charge is not proof. Mohmand is presumed innocent unless a court finds otherwise. Early reports said it was not clear whether he had entered a plea or retained counsel. The next stage depends on prosecutors and a grand jury. If jurors return an indictment, the case can move to further arraignment, discovery, motions and possibly trial. If they do not, prosecutors may have to reconsider the charge.
The case also shows how a medication allegation can become a criminal investigation through several steps. A patient first reports a possible substitution. Medical staff and local police become involved. State police then seek a search warrant. Investigators compare pills found in one location with medication found in another. Detectives interview the suspect and the reporting witness. Court records and testimony then become the first fuller public view of the case. In Mohmand’s case, the allegation did not come from an overdose call or a public disturbance. It came from a woman saying that what she believed was her prescribed medicine had been changed while she was pregnant.
Glasgow and Bowling Green are close enough that people often move between the two cities for work, medical care and family matters. The geography matters because the woman lived in Glasgow, the hospital was in Glasgow and the court case is in Barren County, while Mohmand was described as a Bowling Green man from Warren County. State police Post 3 serves the region and handled the investigation after the report was referred. The Barren County Detention Center held Mohmand after the arrest. That local path shaped where evidence was gathered, where he was booked and where court hearings were scheduled.
Reports have listed different early custody details as the case developed. Some accounts said Mohmand was held without bond. A local report later said jail information showed a $100,000 cash bond and listed a June 11 court appearance. Other coverage later pointed to a June 25 arraignment date. Those differences reflect how jail and court records can change as a felony case moves from arrest to preliminary hearing and grand jury review. The next firm milestone reported in the case is grand jury consideration following the preliminary hearing.
For now, the public record is built on the woman’s report, the police search, the medication match and limited statements attributed to Mohmand and the woman in court documents. State police have not announced a closing of the case. They have said the investigation remains ongoing under Detective Warinner. Prosecutors are expected to use the hearing record and investigative file as they decide how to proceed before a grand jury.
Author note: Last updated Monday, June 22, 2026.