Court/Criminal

A preliminary hearing for a woman charged with receiving stolen property from a residence where a woman was found dead has been rescheduled for Feb. 6.

Belinda Rae Martin, 26, of Elizabethtown, was scheduled to appear in Hardin District Court Monday.

She was charged with receiving stolen property taken from the Buffalo residence where Kristie Lynne Allen, 28, was found dead of what police call an apparent homicide last month.

Sentenced to five years
Michael Baker (1973) was sentenced to five years and fined $385 Jan. 9 in LaRue Circuit Court. He was found guilty of receiving stolen property (firearm); receiving stolen property under $10,000; complicity of possession of drug paraphernalia; and complicity of possession of marijuana. He was credited for 137 days served. Probation denied. A restitution hearing is set for Feb. 6.

Conditional discharge

Kentucky State Police Post 4 arrested Timothy Gibson Jr., 25, over the weekend.

Gibson had escaped from a half-way house in South Dakota, according to Trooper Norman Chaffins. He then stole a vehicle and fled to Illinois. 

Gibson stole a Pontiac Grand Am in Illinois and drove it to his mother's residence on Shepherdsville Road in Hardin County. 

After KSP located the vehicle, Gibson turned himself in a short time later.

 An Elizabethtown woman was charged with driving under the influence after being involved in a single-vehicle crash Sunday, Jan. 22.

Jacquelyn Burckley, 43, was driving a 2000 Toyota Camry on Ky. 84 about 11 a.m. when she ran off the road and struck a mailbox, according to Deputy Matt Darst.

The vehicle came to rest in a yard at 976 Tanner Road.

Burckley was charged with DUI, first, aggravator, possession of open alcoholic beverage container; and no insurance.