UPDATE: A Corbin man has been charged in federal court after he allegedly tried to kidnap a 3-year-old boy as he played in the yard. The Lexington Her.
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CORBIN â A Corbin man who has been accused of attempting to kidnap and then offering $1,000 for a toddler is now facing federal charges.
Ronnie Lou Helton, 73, of Corbin, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court in London Friday. The indictment says Helton attempted to kidnap, abduct, seize, confine, and carry away another person for the purpose of assault using a means of interstate commerce, a red Pontiac sedan.
Helton must appear in person in federal court at 2 p.m. Monday, May 24, for arraignment.
Helton 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 the evening of April 7.
A federal grand jury returned an indictment against Ronnie L. Helton, 73, on Thursday.
According to the indictment, Helton is accused of using a means, facility, and instrumentality of interstate commerce, specifically at red Pontiac sedan, in the furtherance of the commission of the crime of attempted kidnapping.
Helton faces up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 if found guilty.
Helton is currently being held in the Whitley County Detention Center on state charges of attempted kidnapping, and human trafficking – victim under 18 years of age.
Under Kentucky law, each charge is a class “C” felony carrying a potential prison sentence of five to ten years.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 1:38 pm
BY JIMMY LAWTON
North Country This Week
MASSENA – Massena Central School’s $59.7 million spending plan increases spending by 3%, but keeps the tax levy flat at $14.83 million.
Superintendent Pat Brady said boosts in aid allowed the district to keep the tax levy stable and will likely lead to a reduction in the tax rate once the assessments are set. The current tax rate is $19.58 per $1,000 of assessed value. Because the Massena Central School District includes property in the towns of Massena, Louisville, Brasher and Norfolk, individual tax rates for each town can have some variation.
“The District received stronger than anticipated state and federal revenues. In 2020-21 our Foundation Aid was frozen and the state began to withhold 20% of our aid due to state deficits largely caused by the pandemic. Therefore, schools began to prepare for the worse in 2021-22 but then the state budget outlook began to improve due to
LOGAN â The square of the West Virginia State Building in downtown Logan was filled with local residents Friday evening for a drug addiction and awareness event centered on religion.
The event, which was called D.A.R.E. to Care, was similar in nature to the community worship events held in the same location each Monday. One of its organizers, Asia McCants, said she hopes to offer the events each Friday and Monday from now on.
McCants, along with others including Hanna Wooten and Marti Dolin, collaborated with the Logan County Prevention Coalition for Fridayâs gathering.
âWe do it on Mondays, and one of the preachers came to me and said, âI think you would be perfect to start doing it on Fridays,â and I went to the Dollar Tree to get stuff for the homeless for that Monday, and I ran into a woman who was passing out, and she started praying, and the Lord asked me to see what was going on with her, and I did, and she just wanted to get in rehab and she wanted