Trial date set and bond reduced for M.K. McKinney.

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Amber Spradlin’s cousin wants to make a difference as judge-executive.

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PAINTSVILLE, Ky. — A Mingo County woman who was being arrested on a pair of drug trafficking indictments out of Pike County found herself in even more trouble when authorities allegedly caught her taking more drugs into the jail. Leona Johnson, 32, of Delbarton, was indicted on a fentanyl trafficking charge in February and again in June, but had not been arrested until Friday in Martin County. As she was being booked in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville, she was searched and guards found a bag of fentanyl and a bag of heroin. Now, in addition to […]

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PIKEVILLE, Ky. — The failure to wear a seat belt resulted in a Pike County woman being sent to jail facing multiple counts of drug trafficking. A Pikeville Police officer pulled a car over last Wednesday after noticing both the driver and passenger were not wearing seat belts. After noticing both occupants appeared nervous, the officer asked to search the car and was given permission. When the passenger, identified as Madison Lashae Balo, 31, of Virgie, stepped out of the vehicle, she was holding a black bag. The officer told her to leave it so he could search it as […]

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