The conviction of a former Southern Kentucky constable has been upheld by federal appeals judges.

For more than a decade, Michael “Wally” Wallace served as Constable in Pulaski County.

Somerset police contacted the FBI in 2018 after of believed that, during a traffic stop, Wallace had planted drugs on someone.

The car was searched by two officers who didn’t find any drugs. However, the same officers said that Wallace had claimed to finding drugs in a small pill container after only just a few seconds of searching the vehicle.

Witnesses testified against Wallace, stated he had set up a woman on a DUI charge, took part in falsely arresting an undercover FBI agent and planted drug paraphernalia such as baggies and scales, on a man to increase a drug charge.

Wallace had denied planting evidence on people. But, in 2020, a jury convicted him and Gary Baldock, another a Pulaski County constable, who later died in jail before his sentencing. Wallace was sentenced to 140 months behind bars.

Wallace argued during his appeal, that the 5.9 grams of meth police found at his home, was properly stored and labeled in evidence bags, stating this proves he was not holding on to it to distribute it.

Wallace lost his appeal, however. After appeals judges determined that Wallace keep the meth at his home so he could easily plant It on people, due to the fact that he could’ve stored the meth at the Somerset Police Department.