Tag: Ashland

Craig Hardy, Failing to Register as Sex Offender, New York 2025
⏱ 2 min read Craig Hardy, a 66-year-old Schuylkill County man, is accused of failing to register as a sex offender after relocating to New York. The alleged failure to register occurred from November 3, 2025, and continued until the present. Hardy, of Ashland, Pennsylvania, was required to register under the Sex Offender Registration and…

Michael Merrick, Child Pornography, Kentucky 2024
⏱ 2 min read A 26-year-old man from South Point, Ohio, has been locked away for 30 years for producing child pornography in Eastern Kentucky. Michael Merrick was sentenced to 360 months, the maximum possible, for his crimes. The investigation began in September 2024 when a minor victim reported she’d been raped and photographed by…
