A Clark County Constable charged with drug trafficking was in court Wednesday.

Police say they set up a sting back on July 13 and caught Constable Glenn Witt on camera selling prescription pain pills to a cooperative witness. They say he sold the witness Oxycodone pills for $320.

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Witt was later pulled over and troopers found the money, his constable badge and a handgun. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment last week.

On Wednesday, Witt waived his preliminary hearing, which means his case now goes before a grand jury. His bond was set at $15,000.

Witt is being lodged in Powell County due to a conflict of interest.

David C. Hardy, 35, of Branchburg has been sentenced to five years’ probation following his conviction on a charge of criminal sexual contact with a child, according to a release issued by the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office.

In addition to probation, Hardy must register as a Megan’s Law sex offender, attend sex offender group therapy and he is restricted from using social media and the internet for five years.

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Hardy was arrested in August 2014 for allegedly engaging in sexual acts with a child less than 16 years old, but older than 13, and endangering the welfare of a child.

The crimes took place in September of 2000, when Hardy lived in Lebanon Township, the prosecutor’s release stated.

In an indictment in February 2015, Hardy was charged with second-degree sexual assault, first-degree aggravated sexual assault, and two counts of third-degree endangering the welfare of a child.

More than a decade later, between May 1 and Sept. 30, 2011 in Readington Township, Hardy allegedly engaged in sexual conduct with a child younger than 13 years old, according to the indictment.

“The sexual exploitation of a child is a heinous crime,” said county Prosecutor Anthony P. Kearns III. “Continual communication with children under your care is imperative to keeping them safe and children should be taught about appropriate boundaries.”

Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-321-0010, by going online to crimestoppershunterdon.com, or text messaging “HCTIPS” plus a tip message to 274637 (CRIMES).

An Oregon man has been accused of killing a missing woman after he was arrested Tuesday following a high-speed chase in Northern California.

Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel said that Edwin Lara, 31, had been charged with murder in the death of 23-year-old Kaylee Sawyer. Sawyer, of Bend, Ore., was last seen Sunday morning.

Bend Police Chief Jim Porter told a news conference that investigators had found a body that is believed to be Sawyer’s. He said a coroner would try to confirm the identity.

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Lara was arrested along with 19-year-old Aundrea Elizabeth Maes after Lara allegedly shot and critically wounded an elderly man at a motel in Yreka, Calif. and the two carjacked and kidnapped a mother and her two sons from a nearby gas station. The relationship between the pair is unclear, but both face charges including attempted murder, kidnapping, carjacking and burglary.

Five minutes after police got the call about the shooting, another man phoned in from a gas station, saying his car had been taken with his wife and two sons still inside.

“The man had come out of the gas station to see his dog running around and his car gone,” Yreka Police Chief Brian Bowles told The Associated Press.

Bowles said Lara forced one of the man’s sons to drive at gunpoint. The mother and sons were later dropped off at a rest stop.

A California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer later saw a car speeding on the interstate about 100 miles away and tried to pull it over, the highway patrol said in a statement. Lara sped away at more than 100 mph. Police from the nearby town of Corning joined in before Lara pulled over and was arrested along with Maes.

“We have got crime scenes at a motel, a gas station and in Red Bluff more than 100 miles away,” Bowles said. “We’re a small department and stretched beyond our resources right now.”

Bend Police later announced that Lara’s wife had alerted authorities Monday of his possible involvement in Sawyer’s disappearance. Sawyer was last seen around 1 a.m. Sunday around her apartment, which is close to where Lara works as a security guard at Central Oregon Community College.

Isabel Ponce-Lara, Lara’s wife, was recently hired by the Bend Police Department and has been receiving field training, the department said on Tuesday.

“Officer Ponce-Lara is not suspected to be involved in the disappearance of Kaylee Sawyer,” the department said, adding that she “has been cooperative throughout the investigation.”

Lt. Clint Burleigh of the Bend Police Department said Sawyer’s body has not been found, and declined to say what caused detectives to change the case from a missing person to a homicide.

“There is a lot of information coming out, quickly,” he told AP. “It is very fluid.”

Lara had worked as a part-time public safety officer at Central Oregon Community College since December 2014, said Ron Paradis, executive director of college relations.

“We’re cooperating with the police as best we can,” Paradis said, declining to comment further.

Newspaper reports from 2009 and 2010 list Isabel Ponce-Lara as a student at the community college, and being on the dean’s list.

Deputies in Boyle County have arrested two people after finding multiple children living in deplorable conditions.

Officers were responding to a report of neglect on Lebanon Road. When they arrived found Gregory Wilkerson and Brandi Harmon living in a shed behind the house with three children.

The shed had no running water or electricity and inside there was a bucket of human feces. All three children have been treated from extreme rashes and bed bug bites.

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They were taken into protective custody by social services. Wilkerson and Harmon have been charged with criminal abuse of a child under the age of 12.  Wilkerson is also charged with possession of marijuana and flagrant non support.

Police need the public’s help locating a missing 25-year-old New Springville woman.

Victoria Ljutic was last seen at her apartment Elmwood Park Drive, according to a written statement from the NYPD’s office of the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.

She is described as a white female, approximately 5 feet, 100 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair. She was last seen wearing a red t-shirt and blue shorts.

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Anyone with information in regard to this missing person is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hot line at 800-577-TIPS (8477); visit the Crime Stoppers website or text tips to CRIMES (274637) then enter TIP577.

Detectives are investigating an armed robbery that happened at the Corner Market Tuesday about 10 miles south of London.

They say that a white man entered the store and asked the clerk for change for $100. He reportedly stole a money bag from the clerk and then fled the scene in a vehicle.

The vehicle appeared to be occupied by a female subject, according to detectives.

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They say the vehicle is described as a blue colored Monte Carlo with a red fender. The vehicle fled on Ky 1223.

The man has been identified as Jason Well, 37, of Old State Rd. in Lily.

Anyone with any information on this subject’s whereabouts or his vehicle is asked to contact Laurel County Sheriff’s office at 606-864-6600 or 606-878-7000.

The family of missing mother Whitney Copley are disappointed because they have not found closure in the case.

On Saturday, some Hart County fishermen found a bag of human remains in the Green River. Copley’s sister Teresa Meyer was hopeful that after ten long months, they could lay her sister to rest

However, police told Meyer Tuesday that the body found in the river was not Copley’s.

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“We do feel disappointed,” said Meyer. “It’s heartbreaking thinking there is no closure, but then I feel positive and happy for that family, they have a loved one and can have closure.”

Meyer is still searching for her sister. Copley disappeared on September 30^th while walking home along Hwy 127 in Dunnville.

Meyer says two search groups from Bullitt and Pulaski Counties will soon bring in dogs to scour the woods and hillside along the Casey/Russell County line.

“I think she’s in this proximity around Dunville, we’ve just been looking in the wrong spots,” said Meyer.

Police are looking for a man who broke into a Lexington church and stole the offerings collected earlier that day.

Surveillance cameras were rolling and footage shows the man breaking into Now Faith Worship Center just off Russell Cave Road.

The thief came in through a back door behind some curtains and then made his way across the sanctuary into the church office.

Surveillance video shows the man prying into one of the locked drawers. Police say he stole all of that morning’s collections.

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“He was specifically doing this on a Sunday afternoon because he was looking for the church’s offerings,” said Detective Mark Thomas with the Lexington Police Department.

Reverend Arlester Washington says that the money the man stole was money the church could have used to help people like him.

“All he had to do, is what he probably already had done, ask us, and we would have tried to help them,” said Washington.

If you know the person involved in this crime, you are asked to call the Crime Stopper tipline at (859) 253-2020. You can also text “LEX P-D” and your tip to ‘CRIMES.’

If your information leads to an arrest, you could get a cash reward.

Bogus Beggar Gary Thompson pleaded guilty in a Bowling Green Court Room.

He was charged in connection with making false statements to the social security administration.

Thompson was sentenced to 42 months for the charges, that time will be served at the Lexington Federal medical Center.

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He was ordered to pay more that $106,000 in restitution.

Federal investigators say that Thompson falsely represented his mental conditions by slowing his speech, stuttering and doing things that made it seem like he had issued with comprehension.

A Pulaski County father and son convicted in a 2015 murder have learned how long they will be in jail.

Rexal Brown, along with his son Jesse, were originally indicted on murder and robbery charges in connection with the shooting death of 34-year-old Danny Poore. They both admitted their guilt during a June court hearing.

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Rexal pleaded guilty to manslaughter and has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. His son, Jesse, pleaded guilty to possession of a handgun by a convicted felon and received a 10 year sentence.

Rexal will serve his time in LaGrange and Jesse will remain in the Pulaski County jail.

Poore, who is from Louisville was found dead in a Pulaski County cabin in October of 2015.