Trial Continued For Former Whitley County Sheriff

{London, Kentucky}...Former Whitley County Sheriff Lawrence Hodge has already been sentenced to 15-and-a-half years in prison on federal charges for taking 150-thousand dollars from the Whitley County Sheriff's Department. Monday, Hodge's trial on state charges of abuse of the public trust was continued. James Meradith, 35, a man connected in a federal affidavit to Hodge pleaded guilty to drug charges in London’s U.S. District Court Thursday after being indicted in September on three counts of selling Oxycodone and one count of having a 12-gauge shotgun. Meradith faces up to 20 years in prison when sentenced April 12th.