LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A former central Kentucky police office has been sentenced after pleading guilty to drug charges.

U.S. Attorney David L. Huber says U.S. District Judge Joseph H. McKinley sentenced former Lebanon Junction police officer 33-year-old Daniel Carr to one year and one day in prison.

Carr pleaded guilty in September to a charges that he planned to distribute Oxycontin.

Carr's girlfriend at the time of the arrest, 32-year-old Brenda Mudd, was sentence to four months imprisonment and four months of home incarceration.

Carr was a sergeant with the Lebanon Junction police department when he and Mudd were arrested June 25. Carr was fired shortly after his arrest.

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