On Saturday, May 15, the city of Prestonsburg held its annual Elk Draw event at the Mountain Arts Center, which revealed the names of individuals who have won elk permits.
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This past weekend, the City of Prestonsburg the Mountain Arts Center and Prestonsburg Tourism partnered together with local country music icons Sundy Best to present the Kinfolk Reunion. The Reunion featured a fun filled weekend of events and concerts for residents and tourists alike to take part in as the Eastern Kentucky boys played their first live show together in years.
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By Austin Blankenship
Staff writer May 5, 2021
A Louisville man and woman were arrested this past weekend on a number of charges after, police said, they led authorities on a chase that spanned through Floyd County and into Pike.
According to a statement from the Prestonsburg Police Department, the Prestonsburg 911 Center received a call from Magoffin County 911 stating that they had attempted a traffic stop on a Chevrolet Trailblazer for speeding and possible DUI. The statement said that the Magoffin 911 Center further reported that vehicle fled from them and succeeded.
Patrolman Zach Neice and Detective Brad Caldwell responded to the area of Ky. 114 at the Mountain Arts Center, the statement said, where they located the vehicle coming into town. According to PPD officials, Neice attempted a traffic stop for reckless driving violations and the vehicle fled, turning on U.S. 23 toward Pikeville. The statement said that the vehicle reached speeds exceeding 100 miles-per-hour on the empty roadway at approximately 2:30 a.m. continu
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A Kentucky judge has ordered court officials to nix hundreds of small-claims cases filed by an imprisoned former lawyer who was captured outside a Pizza Hut in Honduras after fleeing the country.
Pike County Circuit Judge Eddy Coleman of the 35th Judicial Circuit in Kentucky ordered the court clerk to purge all Pike County lawsuits filed by former lawyer Eric Conn against his former clients, report the Lexington Herald-Leader and the Associated Press.
Coleman ordered a default judgment against Conn after he didn’t respond to the suits, which were filed by former clients.
Conn fled the country after he pleaded guilty in a plot to defraud the Social Security Administration out of more than $550 million. Prosecutors said he submitted false medical documents and bribed an administrative law judge to order disability payments to his clients.
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PIKEVILLE, Ky. A Kentucky judge has ordered court officials to purge hundreds of lawsuits filed against clients by a disgraced disability attorney who masterminded the largest Social Security fraud in history, the Lexington Herald Leader reported.
Eric Conn pleaded guilty in 2017 to bribing doctors to falsify medical records for his thousands of clients and then paying a judge to approve their lifetime disability benefits. His plea agreement would have put him in prison for 12 years, but a few weeks before his sentencing Conn fled the country, leading federal agents on a six-month chase that ended when he was caught outside a Pizza Hut in Honduras. He was sentenced to an additional 15 years for his escape.