 Still no sign of former disability lawyer Eric C. Kahn. A TIP leads law enforcement to dig in Mingo County for a body and an event focuses on drug recovery. And it all happened this week. Welcome everyone to This Week. For the next half hour, we'll catch you up on the news you may have missed and give you updates on the week that was in your hometown. We began with the story that was captivated the region since EKB News first broke the story last Saturday, the apparent escape of embattled former disability attorney Eric C. Kahn. And Wednesday, those investigating the case broke their silence. EKB News reporter Chris Anderson went to FBI headquarters in Louisville to learn more about the case. He follows this report. For the first time since his alleged escape, the FBI spoke openly about Eric C. Kahn apparently fleeing from his home incarceration. Amy Hess, the special agent in charge of the Louisville FBI headquarters, said Kahn's prisoner monitoring device was found along I-75 in Lexington when the device was tampered with. He sent an alert to law enforcement who responded immediately. When they recovered the device, Eric C. Kahn was nowhere to be found. On Friday evening, he removed his GPS monitoring device or his ankle bracelet, which was found along I-75 in Lexington. The U.S. probation office, we are working very closely with because they are responsible clearly for his monitoring. And so once that happened, we were notified and together we began, again, ardently looking for him. Hess told a group of reporters that only a few agents are currently assigned to the Eric C. Kahn escape case. She said, however, that more resources and more personnel are being diverted to the case. Right now, I am redirecting resources from other squads and resident agencies in order to assist. We have only two folks who are assigned to the two agents who are assigned to the Pikeville resident agency, including the case agent. And of course, he's a little busy with trial this week against Mr. Atkins. And so as a result, we need additional assistance and I have redirected resources to assist in this matter. I will tell you that for me personally, this is one of the most important things we're doing in this office today, is we need Eric Kahn to face justice. And today, I'm announcing a $20,000 reward for his location that leads to his arrest so that he can return to Kentucky and face justice. Now, Kahn is still believed to be in the U.S. and the FBI is following up on tips that it's already received about Kahn's potential whereabouts. A $20,000 reward has also been posted for information leading to Kahn's arrest. Reporting in Louisville, Chris Anderson, EKB News. Agent Hess was unable to say whether Kahn had helped in his getaway, but she did say anyone who provides him with assistance would face criminal charges. If you would like to watch Wednesday's full press conference, you can find it online at EKBTV.com. Wednesday, police in Mingo County were following up on a tip concerning a body buried in Chatteroy nine years ago. EKB News reporter Shelby Steele was at the scene of the excavation. The Mingo County Sheriff's Office is currently investigating an anonymous tip called in yesterday afternoon. According to police, someone reported a drunk man claimed to have killed an elderly man, buried him in his grandmother's backyard, and then constructed an outbuilding over top of the evidence. After questioning several people, police found it credible enough to investigate. We brought a cadaver dog down, and the cadaver dog indicated under the building. And so right now we're actually digging in search of it. The Mingo County Sheriff's Office was on scene for over eight hours yesterday and is back again today. According to police, the apparent suspect lived with his grandmother in Chatteroy at the time of the alleged murder. The person in question is actually on the run now from felony warrants we have on in here. But far as any other information, that's all we have at this time. According to the tip, police say the murder happened in 2008 or 2009. If there is a victim, police have no information on who it could be or if the person was even reported missing after it happened. We will continue to follow this story and bring you more information as it becomes available. Reporting in Chatteroy, I'm Shelby Still for EKB News. Police did make one arrest at the scene, but it was not related to this case and was for outstanding warrants. In an update to that story, Mingo County Sheriff's Office has wrapped up its investigation after days of searching, no remains were found. The Mingo County Sheriff's Office suspended their investigation after two days. If any additional credible information is discovered, police will continue their investigation. Until then, the case is suspended. Police in Letcher County allegedly found more than a half dozen active meth labs while responding to an assault complaint last week. Letcher County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Barry Engle told EKB News, 35-year-old Eric Frazier of Harvard Drive in the UZ community near Weizberg was arrested when officers served an arrest warrant against him on June 1st. Engle said deputies had received a tip that Frazier was manufacturing meth near his property and during a search, they, along with probation and parole officers, allegedly found a cooler containing eight active one-step meth labs that were cooking meth at the time. Engle said KSP officers were called to dispose of those labs and said that that was the largest quantity of active meth labs they had found at one site. It seems like every time we go to a complaint there's a meth lab somewhere but I've never seen this many at one time and like I said, the detectives that are charged with cleaning these things up say that that's the biggest one they've ever seen and that's something very unusual. This is not the crystal meth like you would see in Breaking Bad. This is just a homegrown one-step nasty stuff that I can't even believe people would put into their body. But this is the biggest one I've ever seen. Eric Frazier was charged with manufacturing meth in possession of meth precursors as well as possession of a firearm by convicted felon. He remains lodged in the Letcher County Jail. Chief Deputy Engle said he anticipates presenting the case to a grand jury. He added anyone with information about possible meth manufacturing should contact their local law enforcement agency. Drug activity in local city parks has been making headlines as of late and the City of Pikeville is making good on their promise to combat the issue as a Pike County man was arrested on drug charges at the Pikeville City Park Tuesday afternoon. An officer with the Pikeville City Police Department approached a group of suspects at the park after recognizing one as having active warrants for his arrest. As the officer approached one of the subjects threw a set of scales and a syringe onto the ground and fled on foot towards the big sandy community and technical college. The officer caught up with the subject and had to deploy his taser. Upon his arrest the subject was found to be in possession of several baggies which contained a substance believed to be meth and used syringes. 28-year-old Jefferson Spears was charged with possession of a controlled substance fleeing or invading police, wanton endangerment and drug paraphernalia. He remains lodged in the Pike County Detention Center. The drug epidemic affects every community in our region and communities are beginning to fight back in the form of recovery rallies. Many gathered together Monday night in Oxford for the planning of the fifth annual Take Back Our Park event. Although the focus of the rally is recovery, it's not just recovery for those who are addicted. There is many different ways that people choose to recover and we want to respect that. We want to have different outlets of recovery to come in and be available. So somebody has a question. We don't want anybody to come to this event and have a question about recovery that somebody can't answer. We feel like that the family always gets left out. Everybody, recovery programs, a lot of them are based on the addict themselves but the families also need to get themselves informed and get themselves educated. The event is set for Saturday, July 29th at 5 p.m. at the Oxford Community Park. If you would like to get involved with Take Back Our Park, contact Tim Hall by the means listed on your screen. Alpha Natural Resources says it plans to open a new underground coal mine in West Virginia this summer and create more than 50 jobs. The Kingsport, Tennessee coal producer says the Panther Eagle Mine at subsidiary Marfort Coal is expected to begin extracting metallurgical coal as early as July. Alpha Vice President of Operations Charlie Burse says improving market conditions have created more of a demand for the type of coal used for steel manufacturing. Alpha emerged from bankruptcy reorganization last year. Last year, Ramaco developed announcement plans for two new mines in West Virginia and Virginia. Coming up after being sentenced to life in prison over two decades ago, two Easter Kentuckians are looking to have those sentences overturned. That story and more is coming up next on This Week. Pikeville Medical Center's vision services now include an optometry clinic. 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A Pike County man who led police on a foot pursuit that seriously injured two Pikeville police officers could face up to 10 years in prison. 23-year-old Michael Don Holbrooks of Hellyer was indicted this week on felony fleeing and abating and assault charges for allegedly fighting with and running from police on May 26, while allegedly high on methamphetamine. Pikeville police officers Sonny Buckley and Josh Tackett suffered broken bones during the foot pursuit of Holbrooks who had warrants for absconding from parole for a meth-related conviction. Pike's commonwealth's attorney Rick Bartley said another Pikeville officer likely saved Holbrooks life when he went into the river to try to escape capture. One of the things about this case is very interesting is Michael Holbrooks probably would have died had he not been pursued into the river by Officer Chad Branham, another officer with the Pikeville Police Department. It's my understanding he jumped into the river that was very swollen because of recent rain and whenever he got in Officer Branham jumped in and actually pulled him out of the water. Probably saved his life. The second takeaway from this case is that Michael Don Holbrooks allegedly was under the influence of methamphetamine at the time and also the reason he was running is because he had absconded from parole from an earlier meth charge. So this case just shows these people that are on meth do not act rationally and very rarely do they submit to any type of restrictions such as bond, probation or parole. Holbrook is facing three counts of fleeing or evading two counts of third degree assault and one count each of criminal mischief and being a persistent felony offender. He remains lodged in the Pike County Detention Center. A Logan County man who assaulted a now West Virginia State Senator is sentenced. 42-year-old Jonathan Porter of Holden was sentenced Wednesday to one to five years behind bars. He pleaded guilty in April to unlawful assault following the attack on Richard Ojeda before last year's primary election. Twenty years after six young men and women from Eastern Kentucky pleaded guilty to killing three members of a Knox County, Tennessee family, two of them are still filing appeals. Within the last 45 days, the two youngest defendants in the Lillilith murder case, Karen Howell and Jason Bryant, have both asked a federal judge to throw out their sentences. Each of the six are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole but Bryant and Howell are claiming their sentences should be reviewed because they were juveniles at the time of the murders. Two recent Supreme Court rulings say juveniles should no longer be sentenced to life without the chance of parole and can be applied retroactively to past sentences. Coming up next, Michaela Colley will be in the sports hall for the first Chief Meteorologist, late from Hopkins to begin with a look back into the weekend weather. It's all coming up next on This Week. Pikeville Medical Center's vision services now include an optometry clinic in partnership with the University of Pikeville, Kentucky College of Optometry. PMC provides diagnosis and treatment of eye conditions for the whole family. The optometry clinic is conveniently located on the ninth floor of the PNC clinic. Schedule an appointment today. Call 606-218-2209. Pikeville Medical Center providing quality eye care to the region. Attention small business owners. Penn Funding announces the easiest and fastest business funding program, the Platinum Business Account. We needed cash fast. 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One lucky winner will be chosen at random for a five-day Bahamas cruise from Charleston, South Carolina. Watch the news and win a cruise. Some restrictions apply. Must be at least 21 years of age to reserve this vacation. Each passenger must have a valid passport. Transportation to and from the departure is not included. See website for further details. Welcome back into this week on EKBTV. I'm Chief Meteorologist Slatham Hopkins with a look back at your weekend weather and it was a cool week across the region. Temperatures each and every day below average. We should be near 80 degrees this time of the year. 73 with a lot of rain on Monday. Actually that was a record as a matter of fact. 75, a little bit of rain on Tuesday. We dry things out on Wednesday, but look at that high temperature. Some of us didn't even break out of the upper 60s. For highs on Wednesday. A few showers on Thursday, 74, and then back closer to normal as we wrapped up the week on Friday at 78 degrees. The setup this weekend. High pressure will be moving off the East Coast. As it does so, we get on the backside. Hazy, hot and humid weather will make a return. Starting this weekend, but you'll really notice it as we head into next week. As a matter of fact, by Monday, we're talking high temperatures that may flirt with 90 degrees. The weather was perfect in Owensboro and Lexington for some softball and baseball. Makayla Colley has more. Last week, region championships this week. State championships on the high school level as two mountain teams venture to their respective state tournaments in high school baseball and softball. I'm Makayla Colley. The Pikeville Lady Panthers represented the 15th region in Owensboro, Kentucky this week. And this year's KHSAA State softball tournament after defeating three-time defending champion Johnson Central in the 15th region championship match. The Lady Panthers fell short in the double elimination tournament, falling to Madisonville, North Hopkins in Game 1, 10-1 on Thursday, and then on Friday morning. The Lady Panthers still couldn't find their groove as Woodford County got the upper hand on the Panthers in five innings, winning 12-2. The Lady Panthers finished their season at 30 and 7. We caught up with head coach Dave Thomas following the game. We had a great year. You know, we won 30 games. We scored our school record number of runs. We've had the highest team batting average in school history. You know, we've won everything we wanted to win except, you know, a state tournament including the All-A where we run her up and, of course, this show here. But this is a great atmosphere, just a wonderful opportunity for our girls. And I couldn't be any more proud of the team that I've ever coached, and I've been coaching a long time. A couple miscues there that hurt us, but, you know, you can't make mistakes against good teams. And, you know, when you're down here, you're playing against some of the best teams in the state of Kentucky. Again, I couldn't be any more proud of a team or a group of girls than I am of our team this year and our seniors. And, you know, proud of our school. Our school has done a ton of good things and won a lot of things. We're representing, you know, the 15th region, but we're also representing Pikeville High School, Pikeville, Pike County. And, you know, we're proud to be from Easter. And on the baseball diamond, the Johnson Central Golden Eagles are in Lexington, representing the 15th region for the second year in a row for the first time since 1995 and 1996. Interesting fact, head coach Sean Hall was there as an athlete and now as a coach. Last season, the Golden Eagles finished their season lead eight. This season, they're hoping for just a bit more, but the Eagles came up short. A couple runs as Highlands got the best of Johnson Central on Friday and a final score of three to one. Johnson Central ends their season at 31 and seven. Collegingly, the Kentucky baseball program is making their first ever appearance in the NCAA Super Regionals after waiting 121 years. The Wildcats hit the road to Louisville where the Cards hosted the best of three series from Jim Patterson Stadium. The tournament continues all weekend long, but on Friday, the Cards got the best of the Cards five to two, but it's a best of three series, so the Cards still have a chance to come back. That's This Week in Sports. Be sure to check out what's going on next week in the World of Sports. I'm Makayla Colley. Sean Allen, we'll be back with you more after the break. Whether you are insured, uninsured, or underinsured, Home Place Clinic is available to you for all your medical needs. 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When he was a young man it was absolutely the place to be. Everything that these major cities have now they had it in these little backwoods in the middle of nowhere in Eastern Kentucky. When they would move out they left a void that was never filled. Now there's nothing there. And there's, but there's still people there. And it doesn't matter if the hills catch on fire and everything burns to the ground they'll build up from the ashes and they'll stay there because that's where they were born and that's where they're gonna die. And that's kind of the whole there's nothing left to do here but sit back and die. Coming up next we'll fill you in on a few happenings in your areas and we're gonna take a look at the week ahead. Stay with us, we'll be right back on this week. 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The 15th annual Johnny Ray Turner Fight for MS Golf Tournament will take place Friday, June 16th, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Stonecrest Golf Course in Prestonsburg. For more information, log on to the address listed on your screen. And a community fund day will be held Saturday, June 17th from noon until four at the Father's House of Prayer in Sitka in Johnson County. I hope you enjoyed our look back at some of the stories that made headlines this week. Be sure to tune in next weekend at 6 p.m. right here on EKB TV. For this week, I'm Shawn Allen. Have a great weekend.