HARLAN, Ky.
A former deputy has been arrested for complicity in the 2002 slaying of a former Harlan County sheriff who was attempting a political comeback in the Kentucky mountains.
Kentucky State Police spokesman Walt Meachum says Roger Hall of Benham was taken into custody Monday for allegedly paying a man to kill former Harlan County Sheriff Paul Browning Jr.
A statement from state police says Hall was charged with complicity to murder and complicity to drug trafficking. Bail was set at $1 million.
The 41-year-old Hall was a deputy when Browning disappeared while campaigning for election. Browning was later found shot in the head and burned inside his pickup truck along a mountain road.
Harlan County Circuit Court Chief Deputy Clerk Barbara Arvin said paperwork hasn't yet been filed that shows who Hall's attorney is. Hall was represented previously by London attorney Warren Scoville. But Scoville said Monday afternoon that he no longer represents Hall.
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