August 3, 2018
LAWRENCE COUNTY WOMAN & JOHNSON COUNTY MAN ARRESTED IN MARTIN COUNTY ON DRUG POSSESSION CHARGES AND OTHER OFFENSES AFTER LOW SPEED CHASE
WITTENSVILLE MAN A ‘CAREER CRIMINAL’, WITH RAP SHEET AS LONG AS ARM & LEG TOGETHER
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Magoffin woman’s body found on strip mine land
A Lawrence County woman, along with a Johnson County man is facing well over a dozen charges following a traffic stop in Martin County that concluded after an almost comical Andy Griffith Mayberry-style attempt to pull the pair over by police.
The brief pursuit happened Tuesday night July 31, just before 10:30 P.M..
Martin County sheriff deputies say they watched a vehicle cross the center line several times on Milo Road in Tomahawk and tried to pull them over. The driver did not stop and led officers on a low-speed chase for about 2 miles. The deputies finally pulled in front of the car to make the driver stop.
Once they approached the car, they say the driver, identified as Justin D. Combs, 32, of Wittensville, Ky. looked intoxicated and did not have a driver’s license. When deputies had Combs get out of the car, they say he failed the field sobriety test.
During questioning, Combs admitted to deputies that he had smoked meth earlier in the day. Deputies called in a K9 unit to search the vehicle. Inside, they found digital scales and several small baggies, one of which containing what deputies believed to be meth.
They also found a set of brass knuckles and a little more than $250 dollars on him.
Deputies also searched the passenger in the car, Amy Lynn Mollett, 36, of Louisa. Inside her purse, police found a container with a substance believed to be meth inside and a pill bottle with several different painkillers, including Oxycodone, inside. They also found a glass pipe believed to be used to smoke meth.
That when the sheriff department arrested both Combs and Mollett, for a together total of 18 criminal charges and citation violations.
Justin Combs was slapped with 12 charges, which were the following: • IMPROPER REGISTRATION PLATE, • PRESCRIPTION CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE NOT PROPER CONTAIN 1ST OFFENSE, • CARRYING A CONCEALED WEAPON, • OPERATING MOTOR VEHICLE UNDER/INFLUENCE ALCOHOL/DRUGS/ETC. .08 (AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES), 2ND OFFENSE, • DRIVING ON DUI SUSPENDED LICENSE -1ST OFFENSE, • FLEEING OR EVADING POLICE, 2ND DEGREE (MOTOR VEHICLE), • TRAFFICKING IN CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, 1ST DEGREE, 1ST OFFENSE – (> 2 GRAMS METHAMPHETAMINE), • DRUG PARAPHERNALIA – BUY/POSSESS, • NO REGISTRATION RECEIPT, • NO REGISTRATION PLATES, • FAILURE TO PRODUCE INSURANCE CARD, • FAILURE OF NON-OWNER OPERATOR TO MAINTAIN REQUIRED INSURANCE/SECURITY, 1ST OFFENSE.
Amy Mollett was charged with 6 offenses: • POSSESSION CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE 1ST DEGREE, 1ST OFFENSE (METHAMPHETAMINE), • DRUG PARAPHERNALIA – BUY/POSSESS, • POSSESSION CONT SUBSTANCE, 3RD DEGREE – DRUG UNSPECIFIED, • PRESCRIPTION CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE NOT PROPER CONTAINER 1ST OFFENSE, • POSSESSION CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, 2ND DEGREE – DRUG UNSPECIFIED, • POSSESSION CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE 1ST DEGREE 1ST OFFENSE (DRUG UNSPECIFIED).
Both Combs and Mollett were taken to and booked at just after 1 A.M. Wednesday, August 1 in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville. They have since both been released after paying their bail bonds.
This latest arrest involving Justin Combs is the latest in a long running crime history that he has had with law enforcement on eastern and central Kentucky, as the newest bust last week marks 36 times he has been arrested, on over 100 charges of a wide spectrum, in Kentucky since February 2004.
And Justin Combs being facing with a large number of a dozen charges, is nothing new for him, as his last arrest in mid-December 2017, he was arrested by the Kentucky State Police on 20 different charges.
And as was reported earlier in this article, Justin Combs is out on bail.
Sheriff John Kirk said the use of methanphetimine continues to grow in Martin County and the area because addicts who were hooked on pain pills and cannot get them these days have turned to meth, which is cheaper and easy to find.
Deputies arrested Justin D. Combs and Amy Lynn Mollett, and charged Combs with1st degree possession of a controlled substance and other drug related charges. Mollett was charged with possession.
But it wasn’t easy.
Combs, who was driving, refused to pull over and the deputies were forced to use a “rolling stop” procedure to get him pulled to the side of the road, Kirk told area news outlets.
Both were lodged in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center in Paintsville.
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MAGOFFIN WOMAN’S BODY FOUND AT STRIP MINE
By Heather Oney
The Salyersville Independent
BEE TREE – A Magoffin County woman was found deceased on Tuesday night at a strip mine in the Oakley area.
Janel Salyer, 40, was reported missing on July 30, but her daughter told Mortimer Media Group she hadn’t been seen since Saturday. The family had not heard from her since last Thursday.
Reportedly, family members searching for Salyer found her body at a strip mine on Bee Tree on Tuesday night, July 31.
Local law enforcement advised Kentucky State Police that a body had been found at 9:45 p.m.
Salyer was pronounced deceased at the scene by the Magoffin County Coroner’s office. An autopsy was scheduled to be performed on Wednesday to determine the cause of death, according to the release from KSP.
KSP has opened a death investigation in the case, but no charges have been filed.
The case is under investigation by Detective Sykes.
