LOUISVILLE, KY
A federal judge on Tuesdday sentenced the former Hillview, Kentucky Police Chief Glenn A. Caple to two years probation and ordered him to pay a $5,000 fine for lying to the FBI about a mobile methamphetamine lab found inside the Hillview mayor’s property, officials said.
The evidence indicated that Caple ordered the evidence moved to protect the mayor from bad publicity, according to the evidence presented in court.
U.S. District Court, by Senior District Judge Charles R. Simpson III sentenced Caple for making a false statement to federal agents when questioned about his knowledge and involvement in moving evidence found at the mayor’s residence on Jan. 4, 2012, according to federal officials
Hillview, Kentucky is a city of approximately 9,400 residents located in Bullitt County, Kentucky near Jefferson County.
On Feb. 13, Caple was unanimously convicted by a jury that deliberated just over one hour before reaching a guilty verdict, officials said.
During the four-day trial, this is what the evidence also showed:
Caple lied to federal agents on April 26, 2012, when he was questioned by the FBI about his involvement telling subordinate Hillview Police officers to move evidence.
The evidence indicated that a mobile meth lab was inside a backpack.
Caple ordered the backpack moved from its original location at the residence of the Hillview mayor. But in an interview with FBI agents, he denied that the suspected backpack had been found by Hillview police on the mayor’s property and that he had asked a Hillview officer to move it off of the property.
Hillview police officers testified under oath that a mobile meth lab in a black backpack was found in a tire next to a garage on the mayor’s property.
They further testified that Chief Caple asked a Hillview police officer to move the backpack to a location believed to be off of the mayor’s property and failed to report the incident, in order to protect the mayor from bad publicity.