{"id":31547,"date":"2020-10-23T03:40:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T07:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=31547"},"modified":"2020-11-02T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T20:40:03","slug":"meade-county-man-faces-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2020\/10\/23\/meade-county-man-faces-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Meade County Man Faces Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"31548\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2020\/10\/23\/meade-county-man-faces-charges\/ronald-a-leach\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ronald-A-Leach.jpg?fit=170%2C260&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"170,260\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Ronald A Leach\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ronald-A-Leach.jpg?fit=170%2C260&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ronald-A-Leach.jpg?resize=170%2C260\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"260\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31548\" \/><br \/>\nA Meade County resident, who formerly ran for Congress, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder of a police officer.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ronald A. Leach, 56, was arrested Monday evening at his residence on Buck Grove Road in Ekron.<\/p>\n<p>Attempted murder is a Class B felony punishable by 10 to 20 years, if convicted. Leach also faces a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree assault, domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>He was arraigned Wednesday in Meade District Court with bond set at $250,000 cash. A preliminary hearing is set for October 28.<\/p>\n<p>Meade County Sheriff Phillip Wimpee said officers were attempting to serve paperwork Monday related to a domestic violence accusation. Leach reportedly got into his pickup truck and tried to run down the deputies.<\/p>\n<p>Leach, who lived in Brandenburg at the time, was the Democratic nominee for the 2nd Congressional District seat in 2014 and two years later sought his party&#8217;s nomination for U.S. Senate. Both attempts were unsuccessful.<br \/>\nSource: NE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Meade County resident, who formerly ran for Congress, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder of a police officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":31548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-8cP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-11-13 00:13:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Ronald-A-Leach.jpg?fit=170%2C260&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31549,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31547\/revisions\/31549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}