John Allen Kinnis, 48, of Marion was indicted this month by the Crittenden County Grand Jury on felony charges of first-degree fleeing or evading police and first-degree possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine). Additionally, he was indicted on a variety of misdemeanor charges.
Court records indicate that Kinnis eluded police in a high-speed automobile chase several weeks ago and was eventually arrested a few days later in Crittenden County.
Twenty-four years ago, Kinnis was ordered to leave Kentucky by then Crittenden Circuit Judge Tommy Chandler, when those types of options were available to judges. A jury had convicted Kinnis in 1995 of burglarizing the home of an elderly Dycusburg woman. His 10-year prison sentence was ... for the rest of this article, see the Dec. 19, 2019 full edition of The Crittenden Press, available in print form or digitally here with a subscription to the newspaper's eEdition.
