KENTUCKY — A Louisville man has been arrested following a robbery in Hardin County on Friday afternoon, according to the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies responded around 2:30 p.m. to the 700 block of Star Mills Road, south of Elizabethtown, after a report of a robbery and a stolen vehicle. The victim told officers that the suspect, who was known to him, was armed with a handgun and had also stolen his car.
Later that day, the stolen vehicle was detected by a Flock camera in Elizabethtown. Elizabethtown Police Department officers located the vehicle and pursued it southbound on I-65. The car crashed just north of the Sonora exit, and the suspect fled on foot. Officers apprehended him and identified him as Charles Austin of Louisville.
Austin was charged by EPD with receiving stolen property, multiple drug-related offenses, traffic violations, and an outstanding warrant. The Hardin County Sheriff’s Office additionally charged him with first-degree robbery and theft by unlawful taking.
The investigation is ongoing, and no further details have been released. The sheriff’s office thanked the Elizabethtown Police Department for their assistance.
