Guilty Plea Entered in Coal Executive’s Death

An Ohio man has pleaded guilty in the fatal shooting of a former coal executive. Anthony R. Arriaga told a Mingo County circuit judge that he had been using drugs and had little sleep over several days before he killed Bennett Hatfield in a cemetery last May. Hatfield had been visiting his wife’s gravesite at Mountain View Memory Gardens near the Kentucky-West Virginia border when he was killed. Arriaga faces life in prison on a first-degree murder charge at least 10 additional years for first-degree robbery. Sentencing has been set for May 17.