A 15-year-old Eliz­a­beth­town High School stu­dent has been taken into cus­tody after allegedly dis­trib­ut­ing pre­scrip­tion pills to other stu­dents. The News Enter­prise says the teenager was found with oxy­codone, mor­phine and other med­ica­tions. Other stu­dents found out about the drugs and went to staffers at the school. Those staffers called police. The student’s been charged with traf­fick­ing a con­trolled sub­stance, and that’s a felony

A Bloom­field man’s been busted for pos­ses­sion of a pound of pot. The Greater Hardin County Nar­cotics Task Force arrested 23 Patrick Cul­ver, charg­ing him with traf­fick­ing and pos­ses­sion of para­pher­na­lia. They exe­cuted a search war­rant on his home and also found guns, over a thou­sand dol­lars in cash and some scales.

Eliz­a­beth­town police need your help in find­ing a sex­ual abuse sus­pect. A man is wanted in con­nec­tion to a few inci­dents reported along East Dixie Avenue near the Inter­state 65 over­pass. The most recent one was Wednes­day night, when a woman said she was walk­ing, when a man came up to her and started talk­ing. He then tried to grab her and pull her towards him. She got away and man­aged to call 9–1-1. When police got the scene, the man was gone. He’s described as 5 feet 10 to 6 feet tall, between 175 and 200 pounds, with scar on his face. The cir­cum­stances and that phys­i­cal descrip­tion are sim­i­lar to two other cases reported recently. Police are ask­ing that you give a call if you know any­thing about the inci­dents. That num­ber is 270–765-4125.

Two teenage Eliz­a­beth­town girls who had gone miss­ing this week­end have been found and they were not in dan­ger. Police in Shiv­ely picked up 16 year old Bri­anna T. Ray and Danielle M Bou­vier and got them home. Shiv­ely is just a lit­tle bit south of Louisville.The two had dis­ap­peared from their homes on Sun­day Morning.

We were telling you ear­lier this month about a guy who had been video­taped stuff­ing gloves down his pants at a cou­ple of Five Star Stores and walk­ing out with­out pay­ing for them. Now the News Enter­prise reports police have arrested a sus­pect in con­nec­tion with those thefts. 47 year old Jef­frey H. Atwell of Louisville is fac­ing shoplift­ing charges and could go to jail for up to a year. An off duty Rad­cliff police offi­cer rec­og­nized the S-U-V Atwell was dri­ving as the vehi­cle described being used in the thefts.

A mas­sive drug sus­pect round up in Hardin County. Ken­tucky State Police teamed up with the Greater Hardin County Nar­cotics Task Force, Eliz­a­beth­town Police Depart­ment, Rad­cliff Police Depart­ment, Hardin County Sheriff’s Office and the Hardin County Jail. They took in 18 sus­pects on war­rants, and in doing so, they broke up a meth lab, con­fis­cated pot, cocaine and other con­trolled sub­stances. There were also two peo­ple arrested dur­ing the round-up for unre­lated Fail­ure to Appear bench war­rants. The arrests took place in Eliz­a­beth­town, Rad­cliff, Upton, Sonora and Cecilia. Sev­eral peo­ple are still at large. Here are the lists of those arrested, and those still wanted:

1. Anthonie Fletcher — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
2. Ryan Lin­coln — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
3. Car­olyn Whitaker — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
4. Mor­ris Boggs — Rad­cliff, KY
5. Amanda Keen — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
6. Anthony Keen — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
7. Steven Keen — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
8. Justin Muth — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
9. Christo­pher Ahl — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
10. Ron­nie Stotts — Upton, KY
11. Tim­o­thy Sweat II — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
12. William McGuire — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
13. Matthew Lucas — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
14. Christo­pher Smith — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
15. Lewis Day — Sonora, KY
16. Deaun­dre Brand — Rad­cliff, KY
17. Fred Evans — Rad­cliff, KY
18. Trin­ity Pear­son — Cecilia, KY
19. Joshua Comp­ton — Rineyville, KY **
20. Thomas Vow­els — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY **
21. Ryan Jones — Rad­cliff, KY **
** = Already in cus­tody @ time of round-up

The fol­low­ing indi­vid­u­als are still at large and wanted by KSP & the Greater Hardin County Nar­cotics Task Force.
1. Danielle Markle — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
2. Faith Priddy — Pos­si­bly in Bon­nieville, KY
3. Johnny Kol­ley — Sum­mitt, KY
4. Tri­cia Rig­don — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
5. Jamee Petty — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
6. Ray­mond Maciag — Rineyville, KY
7. Adolfo Car­dona — Eliz­a­beth­town, KY
8. Regi­nald Wat­son Jr. — Pos­si­bly in Maryland

Know a Vet in need of work? A job fair just for Vet­er­ans goes on tomor­row at the Amer­i­can Legion Post on Ring Road in Eliz­a­beth­town. It’s being hosted by the Office of Employ­ment and Train­ing in con­junc­tion with the Amer­i­can Legion, the Dis­abled Amer­i­can Vet­er­ans, Vet­er­ans of For­eign Wars and the U.S. Cham­ber of Com­merce. Nearly 45 employ­ers are expected to attend. If you plan on going, pre­pare to be inter­viewed. That means bring a few copies of your resume and your V.A. or mil­i­tary i.d card.

Eliz­a­beth­town is tak­ing the wraps off the new Col­lec­tion and Safe Dis­posal of Unwanted Med­ica­tion pro­gram. It’s free, thanks to dona­tions from the Eliz­a­beth­town Lions Club and the AM Rotary. From here on out, res­i­dents can take any unwanted or unused med­ica­tions and drop them off at the col­lec­tion site at the Eliz­a­beth­town Police Depart­ment at 300 South Mul­berry Street.

Farm­ers in the area have been col­lect­ing money and goods to help out other farms in the West Lib­erty area hit by tor­na­does ear­lier this month. The News Enter­prise says the Hardin County Farm Bureau, Hardin County Young Farm­ers Asso­ci­a­tion, Hardin County Cattlemen’s Asso­ci­a­tion, Hardin County Grain Com­mit­tee and indi­vid­ual farm­ers col­lected between $4,000 and $5,000 worth of live­stock fenc­ing sup­plies. Cecilia Farm Ser­vice sold the sup­plies at the price they cost the business.

A 12 year old girl in Lebanon is lucky to be alive today. State police say Mada­lynn Thomp­son was rid­ing her bicy­cle with­out a hel­met when she made a turn on to Bar­boursmill Road and hit a van. She was hos­pi­tal­ized for non life threat­en­ing injuries. The woman dri­ving the van-51 year old Linda Cole­man of Spring­field was not hurt.