The Christian County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the theft of over a thousand dollars cash from a Crofton man Monday night.

Troy Clark of Crofton told deputies that he was washing a car at 109 Anderson St. when he noticed his wallet had fallen out of his back pocket. Someone with him emptied out a trash can nearby and found the wallet—minus $1,100 that had been inside.

The report says the victim searched the other person described as a friend and did not find the cash.

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The Co-Chair of the National Republican Party will be in Hopkinsville Saturday morning for the Christian County party’s Mass County Convention.

The convention will be at 10am Saturday in the upstairs area of the old Christian County Courthouse, according to U.S. Senator Rand Paul Field Representative Jason Hastert.

Hastert says National Co-Chair Sharon Day could have chosen any of Kentucky’s 120 counties to come to, which makes it an honor for Christian County to welcome her to Hpkinsville.

The influence of veteran Congressman and Hopkinsville native Ed Whitfield probably had something to do with getting Ms. Day to Christian County, with Whitfield also on the list of speakers for the Saturday morning event.

Hastert says any Republican who was a Republican as of the last election in November is welcome to attend the event, where the local party will discuss and vote on ideas they feel should be passed to the state and national conventions to become part of the party platform.

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A named suspect is being sought by city police in connection with a ''shots fired'' incident on east 13th Street last night.

The shots were fired about 6:30, with Demario Braxton telling police that the man fired several shots in Braxton's direction and then fled, with the report noting that Braxton dropped some unspecified property worth 600 dollars which the shooter picked up and fled with.

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The 3rd and final suspect being sought in connection with the February robbery of A.C. Autotmotive in which shots were fired at an Oak Grove police officer is in custody after a robbery was reported yesterday afternoon in Clarksville.

Taken into custody at an apartment on Ladd Street about 7pm last night was 31-year old Justin Ladarious Horstead who already had warrants on file in Clarksville for robbery and violation of community corrections, with an additional first degree robbery charge added in connection with a holdup on Hickory Trace about 20 minutes to one yesterday afternoon.

The news release from Clarksville Officer Jim Knoll says Horstead entered the apartment at 119 Hickory Trace and pointed the gun at the head of a 54-year old man and then fled with an unspecified amount of money.

Officers received information early last evening that Horstead was at the Ladd Street address where he was apprehended without incident.

He was booked into the Montgomery County Jail, where he is being held in connection with the February 1st incident in Hopkinsville.

Horstead and three others were allegedly involved in an armed robbery in Hopkinsville February 1st in Hopkinsville which resulted in shots being fired at an Oak Grove police officer.

The other two--24-year old Henry Jerome brown and 26-year old Christopher Jerome walker--were already in custody.                                               

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