Police serve Nick Houck with search warrant related to Crystal Rogers case

Detective Jon Snow of the Nelson County Sheriff’s Office hands former Bardstown Police officer Nick Houck paperwork Thursday afternoon as part of the execution of a search warrant. Officers located Houck at a home owned by his grandmother. Click to enlarge.

By JIM BROOKS
Nelson County Gazette / WBRT Radio

Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, 2 p.m. — The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office served former Bardstown Police Officer Nick Houck with a search warrant early Thursday afternoon at a home owned by his grandmother at the corner of Pulliam and East Forrest Avenue near the city cemetery.

Several officers arrived to assist as sheriff’s office Detective Jon Snow pulled into the driveway and presented Houck with the warrant. Houck’s mother, Rose Mary Houck, was also at the home at the time the warrant was served.

In a phone conversation afterward with the Gazette, Snow confirmed the search warrant is related to the ongoing investigation into the disappearance and presumed death of Crystal Rogers.

He said more such warrants can be expected in the near future in the Rogers investigation.

Nick Houck is the brother of Brooks Houck, the Bardstown man who is a suspect in Rogers’ disappearance. Police believe Brooks Houck was the last person to see Rogers alive on July 3, 2015.

Brooks Houck has not been charged in the case, but in October was named a suspect in the case.

Nick Houck was fired in October from his job as a Bardstown Police officer after it was determined he violated several the city’s procedural and personnel policies, and interfered with the Rogers investigation when he called his brother, Brooks Houck, while he was being interviewed by a sheriff’s office detective.

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