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Prestonsburg man indicted on child porn charge
LONDON, Ky. — A Prestonsburg man who was arrested on a child porn charge after police raided his apartment last month has now been indicted by a federal grand jury.
Jimmy Ray Brown, 31, was arrested on a single count of possessing child porn after the FBI, Kentucky State Police and Prestonsburg Police executed a search warrant at his home Sept. 9.
Brown’s arrest came following a long and winding investigation by the FBI’s Huntington office. Agents began investigating in order to identify a person downloading and sharing child porn videos using the BitTorrent file sharing service. Investigators say the computer’s internet connection was associated with approximately 1,833 instances of suspected child pornography being possessed or exchanged over a little more than three months.
The search first took investigators to Logan County, W.Va., where Brown’s internet service provider is based, before they were able to determine that the account accessing the files was based in an apartment at Cliffside Apartments in Prestonsburg.
On Thursday, a federal grand jury in London indicted Brown on a charge of possessing child porn. If convicted, he will face up to 20 years in prison.
Brown is being held without bond in the Laurel County jail.
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Four arrested for meth and fentanyl trafficking in Magoffin
Bottom row: Sheana K. Crum and Ashley Renae Salmons.
SALYERSVILLE, Ky. — What began with a Magoffin County deputy sheriff pulling over a vehicle for a traffic violation ended with four people being taken to jail for meth and fentanyl trafficking.
The deputy was observing traffic on Route 2020 when he saw the vehicle pass by and veer onto the far left side of the road when taking a curve. After pulling over the vehicle, he realized that the driver, Howard Timothy Lemaster, 53, of Salyersville, was wanted on warrants, so he detained him.
The deputy also saw a rear seat passenger, Steven Darrell Vanhoose, 37, of Lowmansville, moving around and hiding his hands, so he asked to speak with him. Vanhoose said he had been trying to put a pack of syringes away. But when the deputy asked Vanhoose to step out, an uncapped syringe, several plastic bags and a black zipper pouch fell to the ground, so he detained him as well.
The officer then began searching the vehicle and found multiple bags of meth and fentanyl. After that discovery, Sheana K. Crum, 32, and Ashley Renae Salmons, 35, both of Tomahawk, were also arrested.
All four have now been charged with meth and fentanyl trafficking, possession of drug paraphernalia and endangering the welfare of a minor, due to there being an 18-month-old child in the car with them. They are currently being held in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville.
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