Mingo County, Wv – A Mingo County man is in jail on a first-degree murder charge after deputies say his wife was found shot to death Friday morning at a home on Triton Lane near Delbarton. Deputies were called around 11 a.m. for a welfare check and found 25‑year‑old Christina Hunt dead on the porch with an apparent gunshot wound. Investigators say her husband, 35‑year‑old Leroy Allen Hunt, was arrested after a brief hostage situation involving a child under two inside the home. Hunt was taken to Southwestern Regional Jail on charges of first-degree murder and child neglect creating risk of injury, and the victim’s body was sent to the state Medical Examiner’s Office for autopsy.

Magoffin County, Ky – A Lee County man is in jail after deputies in Magoffin County say he led them on a chase on a moped. Deputies arrested 35-year-old Timothy Chambers on Sunday after spotting a moped on Kentucky 30 near Salyersville with no working rear lights and a dim headlight. They say the moped, carrying Chambers and a passenger, abruptly turned into a driveway before the passenger bailed out and ran toward the Licking River. Deputies say Chambers resisted arrest, and they found a meth pipe he tried to throw away. Chambers faced multiple charges, including fleeing and evading police, DUI, resisting arrest, drug paraphernalia, menacing, criminal littering, and no moped operator’s license, and was taken to Big Sandy Regional Detention Center.

Pike County, Ky – A Pike County man has pleaded guilty in a federal child pornography case. Prosecutors say 58‑year‑old Michael Wayne Hilliary of McCarr admitted to possessing child pornography. Police arrested him on May 15 after a search of his home turned up images and videos on his computer. Investigators later found more than ten thousand pornographic files of children, some involving toddlers. Because the victim was under twelve, Hilliary faces up to twenty years in prison at sentencing July 31.

Pike County, Ky – A Pike County man has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for threatening Pike Judge-Executive Ray S. Jones. Forty‑eight‑year‑old Ronald Ferguson, of Marrowbone Creek Road, received a 50‑month sentence, followed by three years of supervised release, for interstate threat to injure. Prosecutors say Ferguson pleaded guilty in December; after admitting he posted multiple threats on Facebook back on February 27, including statements that he would hunt Jones down and that “you’re dead.” Ferguson is currently being held at the Boyd County Detention Center.