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An arrest has been made following a stabbing in Pulaski County that happened Monday afternoon on Caney Branch Road.
Deputies say they found 40-year-old Brian Herrin suffering from stab wounds to his neck, head, and arm in a home on Caney Branch Road.
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Police have arrested 30-year-old Ryan Wade. Wade has been charged with attempted murder of a police officer, assaulting, and resisting arrest.
He’s being held in the Pulaski County Detention Center.
There are 31 dogs in need of a home in Larue County after their owner was found dead over the weekend.
The sheriff’s department is still trying to determine what led to 68-year-old Mary King’s death. She was found dead in the home on Friday morning.
Inside of the home, authorities say they found 31 dogs, mostly Chihuahua and Terrier mixes, living among dog food bags scattered among mounds of trash.
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“The feces was inches thick in the floor,” said Mike McNutt, the Director of Hardin County Animal Control. “Nobody deserves to have to live in a situation like that.”
The department is still waiting for medical records to see if the conditions inside of the home lead to King’s death. They say that the dogs are in generally good health.
The Associated Press reports that King’s nephew, Loid Sadler, and his wife, Lora, were living with King at the time of her death. They were the ones who called authorities. The Associated Press reports that they have been charged with animal cruelty and violating county ordinances.
In Larue County, a special license is required to take care of more than five dogs.
King was renting from family members at the time of her death.
For more than three years, a Pennsylvania group claiming to be sovereign citizens—and therefore not subject to U.S. law—schemed to “steal” dozens of foreclosed homes worth millions of dollars and sell them to unsuspecting victims.
The scheme came to light after local officials in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, received documents declaring sovereign citizen status for three residents. Alarmed, the officials contacted the FBI shortly after receiving the documents in May 2010.
Officials had good reason to be concerned: That same month, two so-called sovereign citizens opened fire on police during a traffic stop in Arkansas, killing two officers. The ambush is just one example of how members of the movement often turn to violence.
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Sovereign citizens are anti-government extremists who claim the federal government is operating outside its jurisdiction and they are therefore not bound by government authority—including the courts, taxing entities, motor vehicle departments, and even law enforcement.
They also are prone to engage in numerous types of financial frauds and schemes, based on their skewed interpretation of law.
“Most of these sovereign citizens are extremists,” said Special Agent Walter Szpak, who investigated the case out of the FBI’s Philadelphia Field Office. “When they get arrested, they don’t believe they have committed a crime, and they believe they have the right to retaliate.”
Knowing the potential for criminal and even violent activity by sovereign citizens, FBI agents decided to interview the three people in Pennsylvania who signed the declarations of sovereignty: Steven Hameed, Darnell Young, and Damond Palmer. Hameed and Young were married.
“It’s not illegal to file this kind of paperwork,” explained Szpak. “This is America; they can say whatever they want. But it’s essentially a warning to law enforcement, saying, ‘We’re about to start committing criminal acts.’”
Which is exactly what Hameed, Young, and Palmer were doing. The trio scoured public records to find foreclosed houses in Delaware County, west of Philadelphia. Then they crafted jargon-laden paperwork claiming ownership on 70 properties worth more than $9 million. Most of the homes belonged to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) or Wells Fargo bank.
After staking fraudulent claims to the properties, they listed the houses as rent-to-own opportunities on Craigslist at low prices, Szpak said.
FBI agents could not find the three suspects at first to conduct an initial interview about their claims of sovereign status; they did not live at the addresses listed on their declarations. Agents kept looking, using property records to track them down.
“Every time we went to one of these addresses, someone else was living there,” Szpak said. “The tenants told us they had bought or rented the property from the people we were looking for. That’s when we realized what they were doing.”
As the scope of the fraud became more apparent, the FBI was joined in the investigation by other agencies, including HUD, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and several county and local police departments.
In the midst of the federal investigation into the fraud, Hameed, Young, and Palmer were charged by local police for offenses such as trespassing. In response, the three played another trick popular within the sovereign movement: “paper terrorism.” They filed more than 250 fraudulent IRS forms against numerous state and local law enforcement officials and judges. The fake 1099-DIV and 1099-INT forms falsely claimed that the victims had been paid hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in dividends or interest.
Because the forms were fake, the victims did not know they had been filed and obviously did not pay any taxes on the income. In some cases, the IRS placed liens against the victims or seized tax refunds they would have otherwise been owed.
“These fraudulent tax forms can have a real impact on victims,” Szpak said. “And, even though they are fake, some of them can remain on victims’ credit reports for years.”
They also added to a growing list of federal charges the trio faced. The three were charged in December 2015 with conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, bank fraud, and corrupt interference with Internal Revenue laws, among other crimes. All three pleaded guilty in June 2016. Hameed was sentenced to eight years in prison in February; Young and Palmer received shorter sentences in 2016.
The scam left scores of victims in its wake, Szpak said, including people who learned they were not actually home owners. Although HUD and Wells Fargo worked with the unsuspecting victims who bought homes, none were allowed to stay in the homes they thought they owned.
The Tybee Island Police Department is investigating a missing person, Tracey Hunnicutt. Hunnicutt is 43 years old and has a tattoo of a sword on her left chest.
She was last seen the evening of May 4 at the Sandcastle Inn where she was picked up by a taxi and dropped off at the Grey Hound Station in Savannah.
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If you have any information of the whereabouts of Tracey Hunnicutt, contact Capt. Hayes at 912-472-5083.
A Nashville man decked out in silver paint was arrested on charges of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
Officers responded to a local McDonald’s after receiving a report of an intoxicated individual. When they arrived on scene, they found John Casey III unconscious behind the wheel of a running car.
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Casey III of Nashville, TN, was arrested on charges of Operating a Motor Vehicle Under the Influence of Alcohol/Drugs/Etc. 1st Offense and Possession of Open Alcoholic Beverage Container in Motor Vehicle Prohibited.
So far, police have not released an explanation as to why Casey was covered in silver paint.
An investigation is underway after a Lexington gas station was robbed overnight.
The robbery happened just after 2 a.m. at the Speedway on Paris Pike. Police say two men went into the store and demanded money from the clerk. They say the two men didn’t appear to have any weapons but still got away with money.
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As of now, police don’t have a good description of the robbers.
A second person is dead after a crash in Franklin County.
The crash happened Friday night on US 127 and Owenton Road and involved a tractor trailer, a car and a pickup truck.
Officials say the truck driven by Jason Powell, started spinning out and collided with the semi and car.
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Powell died at the scene and now the State Journal reports S.J. Smith, 81, died Sunday night at UK Hospital.
The State-Journal reports that S.J. Smith, 81, died Sunday night at UK Hospital.
Fifteen men accused of working illegally under false identities at a Louisiana construction site have been arrested, Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston said Monday.
All fifteen defendants are living in the United States illegally, according to the press release from the Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Last week, a federal grand jury in Beaumont indicted them, “charging the individuals with identity theft, using social security numbers of actual citizens, and making false claims of United States citizenship in order to obtain jobs at the facility over the past three years.”
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They were working at a liquefied natural gas facility that is under construction in Cameron, Louisiana.
According to the release, they illegally obtained legitimate social security numbers and false birth certificates, which were “primarily issued in Puerto Rico.” That enabled them to get ID cards from states including Arkansas, Missouri and Texas, and allowed them “to pass the E-verify systems used by their employers to ascertain U.S. citizenship or alien lawful work permits.”
They were hired by subcontractors who used Port Arthur hiring offices to review applications, interview candidates and verify their immigration status, the release said.
Two of the fifteen are from Guatemala, one is from Honduras, and twelve are from Mexico, according to Featherston’s announcement.
If convicted, they each face up to five years in federal prison. “Some had previous encounters with immigration authorities and had returned to the United States, which can lead to further charges being added or increased sentences upon conviction of the current charges,” the release said.
“Protecting critical infrastructure is a national security priority for law enforcement,” Featherston said. “To do so we must make sure that workers in our community, and especially those working in proximity to vital national interests like our oil and chemical industries, are legal and properly vetted as required by law. Further, we must remain vigilant to these concerns to protect the economy and the law abiding worker.”
The Boston Police Department is seeking the public’s help in efforts to locate 15-year-old Amaya Carter-Tawa. Ms. Carter-Tawa was last seen at about 4:00 PM on Friday, May 5, 2017 at her home in Roslindale. Ms. Carter-Tawa is described as a black female, about 6’0” tall and approximately 125-130 lbs, thin build, light brown complexion, and long black braided hair. Ms. Carter-Tawa has a nose ring and earrings and was last seen wearing black jeans.
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Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Amaya Carter-Tawa is asked to contact District E-5 detectives at (617) 343-4595.
Community members wishing to assist this investigation anonymously can do so by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1 (800) 494-TIPS or by texting the word ‘TIP’ to CRIME (27463). The Boston Police Department will stringently guard and protect the identities of all those who wish to assist this investigation in an anonymous manner.
The search is on for a missing 66-year-old female who is believed to have medical issues. The Palm Valley Police Department said Alice Johnson Myers was last seen on Friday morning.
Her neighbors reported her missing after they noticed her car was gone on Saturday. Myers is is 5 feet 2 inches tall with brown hair and green eyes. Investigators suspect Myers may be driving a white 2015 Chevrolet Cruze with temporary license plates 29R6343.
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Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call the Palm Valley Police Department at (956) 873-1500 or the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office at (956) 554-6700.
