Prestonsburg, Ky – M.K. McKinney faces new bond terms that could allow his release from jail. On Friday, Special Judge Eddy Coleman approved a second bond reduction for M.K. McKinney, after his attorney, said earlier terms were out of reach. McKinney had been held on a five-million-dollar bond. The judge now says he can be released if he posts just over one million dollars in property and four hundred fifty thousand dollars in cash and follows strict home incarceration with GPS monitoring.

 

Prestonsburg, Ky – A Floyd County grand jury has indicted a Prestonsburg man for failing to comply with Kentucky’s sex offender registry requirements. According to court documents, 40-year-old Dustin Powers, whose last listed address was on Landing Lane in Prestonsburg, is accused of failing to provide current or accurate address information after March 2021, as required. Powers is a lifetime registrant after a 2016 conviction in Clark County for third-degree rape and third-degree sodomy involving a 14-year-old victim.

 

Pikeville, Ky – A Pike County woman is facing DUI and endangerment charges after a crash with her four-year-old child in the vehicle. On December 12, Pikeville Police were called to a single-vehicle wreck on Chloe Road, where officers found 28-year-old Sydney V. Tackett’s vehicle on its side in a creek. Police say Tackett’s child had a cut on his head and was taken to Pikeville Medical Center. Officers reported Tackett smelled of alcohol, showed signs of intoxication, and blew point one-two-five on a breath test, above Kentucky’s legal limit of point zero-eight. They also reported finding numerous open wine bottles, THC vapes, marijuana, and drug paraphernalia in the vehicle. Tackett was taken to the Pike County Detention Center.

 

Pikeville, Ky – A Pike County man originally charged with second-degree manslaughter has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. Twenty-eight-year-old Jimmy Gage Adkins of Robinson Creek admitted in Pike Circuit Court to first-degree possession of a controlled substance.  Adkins had faced second-degree manslaughter and persistent felony offender charges after prosecutors said he distributed fentanyl to a man who later died. As part of a plea deal reached with the involvement of the victim’s family, those more serious charges will be dismissed, Adkins remains free on bond, and formal sentencing is set for January twenty-second.