Man paroled for attempted murder indicted in Magoffin County

SALYERSVILLE, Ky. — A Magoffin County man released from prison in January after serving less than seven years of a 20-year sentence for attempted murder, then arrested again in March for threatening to kill a county attorney among other charges, has now been indicted.

Colonel Lewis Bolen

Colonel Lewis Bolen, 51, of Salyersville, was arrested last month after a Goat Mountain resident reported he refused to leave her home and kept asking to buy a gun, saying he was going to kill Morgan County Attorney Myles Holbrook.

Following his indictment by a grand jury yesterday, Bolen has now been charged with second-degree burglary, persistent felony offender, and two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. If convicted, the persistent felon charge raises his potential punishment to 10 to 20 years in prison, with no possibility of parole.

Bolen also faces misdemeanor charges of trespassing and terroristic threatening.

Bolen pleaded guilty to firing a gun at a crowd in 2011, injuring three people. He was initially represented by Holbrook in that case.