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One Perry County community is back to normal after a man barricaded himself from police Saturday evening. For several hours, the man barricaded himself in an apartment. Witnesses said the suspect threatened a woman and her kids, adding he felt sorry for her. After several hours, the man turned himself in and was taken to the Kentucky River Regional Jail and is facing several charges. This was on Combs Road in Airport Gardens.
Over 75 years ago a Prestonsburg High School Cheerleader was murdered and to this day this case remains unsolved. It was June 1949 when 17-year-old Muriel Baldridge was viciously murdered in Prestonsburg under the bridge that the city has become famous for. She was with a group of friends that hot summer night of June 27 1949 when she was making her way home across that bridge, friends had offered to walk with her, but Muriel, or Merle as friends and family had called her, had crossed that bridge a thousand times and never had any trouble, so she declined their offer to walk with her, that was the last time anyone saw her alive. She was discovered the next day and what followed could have easily been a work of fiction with all the twists and turns that the case would take, confessions were made and recanted, and Law Enforcement at the time did everything that they could to bring justice for Merle and her family, at one point Gorman Collins senior, who was Floyd County Sherriff traveled to Indiana in hopes that they had caught the murderer, but it reached an unsuccessful conclusion. You can hear more about this story in it entirety by listening to The Mountain Mysteries Podcast, there’s a link under the local news section of our website at q95FM dot net, that will take you right to that episode.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5xmtgYgrdE6hwl6gnp0Frj?si=A79RFpCEQ1a6ofeO6umH2w
(Muriel Baldridge)
Two Prestonsburg men are facing eight counts of second-degree cruelty to animals after, Kentucky State Police said, complaints led them to their residence. According to a citation written by KSP Trooper Dalton Kidd, on June 22, KSP Post 9 received multiple calls reporting that several dogs and a chicken were locked up in crates at the residence of James Endicott, 58, and Jimmy Endicott, 26, on Ky. 3385, with no food or water and were very malnourished. Kidd wrote that, upon arrival at the residence, he found seven dogs and a chicken very malnourished with no food nor water and with very little shelter. The dogs, the citation said, were in small wire crates with no shade, food or water. Kidd wrote that he cited James Endicott and Jimmy Endicott on eight charges of second-degree cruelty to animals.
Several events are available to celebrate the fourth of July in Prestonsburg. The next installment of the Star City Summer Series will be held at the municipal parking lot on Thursday, July 4 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. People are invited to enjoy local music, food and art.
Fireworks will begin at dark (around 10 p.m.). All federal and state government offices will be closed Thursday, July 4. The United States Postal Service will close its local post offices and suspend deliveries. Services will resume on Friday.
Three people, including a Paintsville man, were arrested on charges including trafficking in methamphetamine following a traffic stop in Floyd County. Prestonsburg Police Officer J.T. Layne got behind a 2006 Saturn Vue which rapidly changed speed and was being driven in a careless manner. Layne, documents said, conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle on West Richmond Street, made contact with the driver, Codey Nelson, 21, of FM Stafford Avenue, Paintsville, and began asking for documentation. Layne wrote that he learned that Nelson was driving on a suspended license. Officer Keegan Williams and Sgt. J. Arms arrived on scene to assist, the documents said. The documents said there were two other occupants in the vehicle — front seat passenger Selenia Kelley, 28, of Open Fork, David, and rear passenger Gregory Johnson, 45, of Corn Fork, Prestonsburg. Johnson, documents said, told officers he had a firearm on his person, and they recovered a 9 mm pistol. Layne wrote that Arms deployed K9 Secret, who alerted to the presence of drugs in the vehicle. Johnson, Kelley and Nelson were all lodged in the Floyd County Detention Center.
