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West Liberty (AP) A candidate for Morgan County coroner has been charged with stealing pain medication from an elderly woman while campaigning door-to-door.

It's the second time in the last year that 23-year-old Jody Lynn McClurg has been arrested on drug charges.

McClurg was arrested Wednesday. He is on probation stemming from an arrest year in Menifee County, when he was charged with posing as a sheriff's deputy and stealing the pain medication of a man who had recently died.

In the most recent case, McClurg was charged with theft by deception under $300. Kentucky State Trooper Ralph Lockard says McClurg substituted Tylenol tablets for painkilling hydrocodone pills after the woman allowed him inside her bathroom.

In the older case, McClurg pleaded guilty to lesser charges of posing as a law enforcement officer and illegal possession of a controlled substance and received a suspended 30-day jail sentence two years probation.