By Emily Adams-Bentley
Staff Writer Apr 9, 2021
Helton
CORBIN â A Corbin man who has been accused of attempting to kidnap and then offering $1,000 for a toddler is set to appear in Whitley District Court on Monday.
Ronnie Lou Helton, 73, of Corbin, was arrested and charged with attempted kidnapping of a minor and promoting human trafficking of a victim under 18 years of age after the Corbin Police Department were called to a residence on Gordon Hill Pike on Wednesday evening.
Kristy Baker, the childâs grandmother, reported to police that a male subject, later identified as Helton, walked over to where he 3-year-old grandchild was playing on a trailer and began attempting to assist him to the other side of the fence by holding his hand and leading him to where the trailer sloped higher up on the fence.
Corbin man arrested for attempted kidnapping, promoting human trafficking
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Two Williamsburg residents were arrested on drug charges Monday after a traffic stop.
Sarah Powers, 34, was charged with trafficking in a controlled substance (meth), possession of a controlled substance (heroin), second- and third-degree possession of a controlled substance, no/expired registration plates, and failure to produce insurance.
Matthew Thomas, 30, was charged with trafficking in a controlled substance (meth), second- and third-degree possession of a controlled substance, and violation of a Kentucky EPO/DVO.
Williamsburg Police Department Officer Bryson Lawson and K-9 Officer Johnny Fulton arrested Powers and Thomas following a traffic stop on a gray 2005 Saturn, on Lindenburg Drive in the Highland Park community, according to a press release to a WPD press release.
By Jarrod Mills
Staff Writer Mar 12, 2021
Paul Brock
WHITLEY COUNTY - After technical issues prevented the court from continuing with a hearing Monday morning via Zoom, a Corbin man currently facing four counts of murder and tampering with physical evidence appeared in-person before Judge Dan Ballou alongside his attorneys for an evidentiary hearing Tuesday morning.
Paul Brock, 40, had a motion filed on his behalf by his attorney, Andrea Kendall, to have the indictment against him dismissed. Kendall says the Corbin Police Department had failed to collect evidence pertinent to Brock s case.
On Tuesday, Kendall began questioning CPD Detective Coy Wilson on the happenings of Feb. 17, 2018, the day on which Mary Jackson, 74, and her pregnant granddaughter, Tiffany Byers, 33, were found shot to death at an Ellison Street residence in Corbin.