In an incident that left one person dead, a Kentucky sheriff was arrested after shooting a judge at the Letcher County Courthouse in Whitesburg, Kentucky.
According to The Mountain Eagle, Letcher County Sheriff Mickey Stines, a Democrat, is accused of shooting District Judge Kevin Mullins, District Judge of the 47th Judicial District, in his office.
Mullins served as the assistant commonwealth’s attorney in Letcher County before being appointed as a district judge by Democrat Governor Steve Beshear in 2009. According to the profile of Mullins for the Cocaine, Meth & Stimulant Summit in November 2022:
Judge Mullins has set forth to implement practices that promote substance use treatment for justice-involved individuals and has successfully helped 971 residents of Letcher County (population 22,000) enter inpatient residential treatment. Likewise, the program developed on August 14,…
