Tri-State Headline News on The Big One (thank you to our media partners) From WYMT Middlesboro Police say they found meth ingredients in a car next to a baby. Police say it started as a routine traffic stop in the Walmart parking lot on Saturday morning. An officer pulled the car over for a license plate violation and the officer found a couple in the car with meth ingredients next to a baby. Police say the couple had bags full of items needed to cook meth. Lt. Tom Busic, Middlesboro Police Department said Just about every ingredient needed to manufacture methamphetamine along with some of the equipment, The arrest citation says the couple had just bought the items. Police say there was also an eight month old baby in the car right next to the meth ingredients. Police arrested the driver, 31-year-old Sherry Conley and the passenger, 30-year-old Delbert Roark and charged them with manufacturing meth. Both Conley and Roark are being held in the Bell County Detention Center. Bond for both is $100,000 full cash bonds each. Middlesboro Police say another family member took custody of the baby following the arrests. ---------------- Also From WYMT A murder trial in Harlan County for one of three men charged in connection with the death of James Feltner is scheduled to begin this week. Harlan County Circuit Court officials say the trial is expected to start on Wednesday for 38-year-old Thomas Polson. Police found Feltners body in 2011 on an abandoned strip mine. Investigators believe he was shot with his own rifle. Polson was indicted last year on murder and robbery charges. -------------- From WKYT Sheriffs Deputies busted an alleged heroin dealer in Whitley County. They arrested Elzie Ross Junior along South Irvin Road. In Rosss car, deputies found more than three grams of heroin, suboxen film, and several needles. Potential buyers tipped them off. ---------------- From The Times Tribune A Corbin woman was arrested Friday after deputies found her passed out behind the wheel of a car that was stuck in a ditch, according to Laurel County Sheriff John Root. Nancy Uhlig, 41, and her passenger, Becky Grubb, 34, were both arrested about 11:30 p.m. after Deputy Mikey Ashurst responded to a complaint about a Pontiac Grand Prix in a ditch on Level Green Road near its intersection with Auger Springs Road. Uhlig said she had been drinking liquor at a friends house and was trying to get herself and Grubb home. Root said she was found to have a used syringe in her possession. It was determined that Uhlig was under the influence so she was arrested and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia, and numerous traffic violations. Grubb, who had left the car in an attempt to find someone to pull it out of the ditch, admitted she had injected a painkiller. She was charged with public intoxication – controlled substances. Both Uhlig and Grubb were jailed in the Laurel County Correctional Center. -------------- In Tennessee News From WBIR Kenneth Bartley is a free man. Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood ruled Monday that the Campbell County High School shooter wont return to prison because of time already served. The now 23-year-old, who admitted to shooting three administrators at Campbell County High School in 2005, was sentenced concurrently to three years for reckless homicide charges, three years for having a weapon at school, and two years for drug charges. He has already served more than eight years. #thebig1063
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 10:50:40 +0000
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