 An arrest was made yesterday due to a tip from a school resource officer in Pike County. 74-year-old Richard Bartley is a known sex offender who was arrested as he was going through the parent pickup line at a local Pike County school without permission. Yesterday, October 21st, our SRO, a school resource officer for Shelby Valley High School and the Shelby Valley Grade School, received information, received a tip that a known sex offender, registered sex offender, was coming through the pickup line without permission. He is charged with registered sex offender school restriction, he had an active bench warrant and also a criminal summons out of Morgan County, Kentucky. And anyone can go on the Kentucky State Police sex offender register and see who their neighbors are if they're on a sex offender register, which I encourage that. They need to know. Melissa Blackburn took it upon herself, took the initiative to investigate and look into this matter. It's kudos to her because and the school system and the school board, you know, they help us provide SROs which makes the kids safer, the children safer in Pike County. Chief Deputy Cross states that their anonymous tip line has proven to be very successful in acquiring information of criminal activity in our community. The Pike County Sheriff's Office encourages everyone to call our anonymous tip hotline, that number is 606-766-5555. If they have a knowledge of this or any other crime, please, we encourage them to contact us by that, it's anonymous, there'll be no call back, we won't ask no names, they just leave a message and that's all they have to do. It's a fact that without the cooperation of the citizens of our county, we could not do our job. The whole police agency can survive without the cooperation and the knowledge that the community has and we are thankful and grateful for that because we have a great, great working relationship with the citizens of Pike County.