PIKEVILLE, Ky. — A man wanted in a number of cases in Pike and Floyd counties was arrested on Thursday. Jeremy James Petersen, 37, of Teaberry, is accused breaking into the Walters Mazda lot on Nov. 10th and taking a 2020 Toyota Camry. He is also accused of stealing a four-wheeler from the lot of Childers Auto and Truck Parts on Dec. 12. It was that last incident which resulted in his arrest, after police spotted someone riding the stolen four-wheeler on Scott Avenue on Thursday. Police later found Petersen with the four-wheeler at a condemned home on Julius Avenue, […]

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PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Two Alabama men who were arrested months apart on drug charges while driving the same car are now facing federal charges together. Frederick Daniel Holt Jr., 50, of Gadsden, Ala., and Floyd Jenkins, 45, of Munford, Ala., were indicted by a federal grand jury on Thursday. Holt was arrested back in October after police got a report that he was selling fentanyl out of his room at the Days Inn, in Paintsville. Jenkins was arrested Dec. 4, after he was found with a quarter-pound of meth and an ounce-and-a-half of fentanyl in his car. A week later, […]

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PRESTONSBURG, Ky. — A Pike County man is in jail, after police found him with a variety of drugs during a traffic stop. A Prestonsburg Police officer pulled over a car on U.S. 23 in Prestonsburg. While talking to the driver, the officer noticed his passenger was visibly shaking and avoiding eye contact. The officer soon learned the passenger, identified as Christopher Justice, 46, of Jonancy, was wanted on two bench warrants, and he was placed under arrest. The officer then got permission to search the car, resulting in the discovery of a large bag of meth in the glove […]

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TUTOR KEY, Ky. — A woman who was shot at in Pikeville over the weekend has now been arrested for her part in the matter. It all happened on Sunday at a home on Harold’s Branch. Police say Ariana Danielle Cook, 34, of Tutor Key, reportedly had a man drive her and her 3- and 6-year-old children to 24-year-old Kameron Hattaway’s home to allegedly buy marijuana. While she was there, Cook and Hattaway got into an argument. What happened next is under dispute, as Cook says she grabbed a container of marijuana and fled the home, while Hattaway claims she […]

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PAINTSVILLE, Ky. — A Johnson County man is in jail on felony charges, after authorities were alerted to a theft in progress. Dispatchers received a report of a motion detector going off at the phone lines on top of Starfire Hill in Paintsville last Thursday night and sent a sheriff’s deputy to check it out. When the deputy got there, he saw a section of line was missing, then saw a man standing underneath who ran away once of officer shined a light on him. The man, identified as Charles Andrew Hammond, 46, of Paintsville, was caught after a chase […]

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