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Man pleads guilty to kidnapping woman in case that sparked Ky. officer's shooting, manhunt
by SHANNON STOWERS
{p}A Boyd County, Kentucky, man pleaded guilty Wednesday in a kidnapping that led to a responding officer being shot in the neck and a large manhunt in May, federal prosecutors said. (Boyd County Detention Center){/p}
BOYD COUNTY, Ky. (WCHS) —

A Boyd County, Kentucky, man pleaded guilty Wednesday in a kidnapping that led to a responding officer being shot in the neck and a large manhunt in May, federal prosecutors said.

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Jonathan Lee Smithers, 41, of Catlettsburg is accused of kidnapping a woman he was in a romantic relationship with at gunpoint on May 1 and driving her to Flatwoods, Ky., where she eventually escaped, a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky said.

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