Oklahoma City police have identified a murder victim found under a bridge.

Officers say the body of Jose Miguel Lopez, 29, of Oklahoma City was found near Reno Ave. and Council Rd. Tuesday.

The medical examiner has not released the official cause and manner of Lopez’s death. However, police indicated Lopez had multiple injuries on his body and met a tragic and brutal death.

“Mr. Lopez had trauma to his body consistent with being a victim of a homicide,” Msgt. Gary Knight, with the Oklahoma City Police Department.

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Police issued a missing person’s report for Lopez on Saturday.

According to the police report, Lopez’s fiancé contacted officers after he did not return home from the OK Corral nightclub at 2300 N MacArthur Blvd. Friday night.

“They didn’t know where he was,” said Knight. “They had not seen him since he was last seen at the bar, certainly that was unusual of him to just disappear like that and that was when police were notified.”

The police report states Lopez drove his truck, a 2014 white Chevy Silverado to the nightclub Friday, but police have not released whether or not the vehicle has been found.

Investigators have requested surveillance video from the OK Corral. They are hoping Lopez was captured on surveillance video. Officers want to see who he might have spoken to or encountered at the nightclub.

No arrests have been made and authorities say they have not identified any suspects.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact the police department’s homicide tip line at (405) 297-1200.

Police are investigating three separate shootings all within a few hours of each other.

Police responded to an attempted robbery that ended in a shootout in a neighborhood, and two other calls of shots fired around the city Wednesday night. They are currently working to see if all three of the incidents are connected.

Police say it all started with bullet casings lining the street on Hawthorne Lane after a drive-by shooting around 6 p.m. The street was shut down for hours as they investigated. They say no one was injured, but a car and a house were hit.

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Then about 30 minutes later, police were called to a home on Howard Street for another report of shots fired. We’re told a house was damaged by gunfire, but no one was hurt

The latest incident was around 11 p.m. when a woman on a street flagged an elderly man down and asked him for a ride. Police say she directed him to Hawkins Avenue, where two men walked up to him and pointed guns at him. The woman jumped out of the car and the man tried to drive off, but police say the men fired at his car. That’s when he took out a gun and returned fire until the three ran off. The man’s car and a house were both hit, but again, thankfully no one was hurt.

Police are still trying to determine if all three of these reports of shots fired are related.

Lexington police said Thursday that 75 shootings happened in Lexington last year. As of right now, 44 shootings have happened this year, putting the city about nine ahead compared to the same time last year.

They say that the shootings are not random so neighbors don’t have to worry about being targeted.

So far, no suspects have been named in any of the three shootings.

Following an eight-day trial, a federal jury sitting in Lexington has convicted
James Minton, 70, Joyce Minton, 65, and Aaron Brooke Warren, 43, all of Nicholasville, Ky., of
numerous counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering.

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According to the evidence presented, James Minton, Joyce Minton, and Aaron Brooke Warren conspired
to defraud their employer, Clark Machine Tool and Die, of Nicholasville. The criminal conspiracy
took place from February 2000 through May 2016 and resulted in a loss in excess of $1,500,000. The
conspirators defrauded the business by using company checks and credit cards to purchase personal
items, by cashing and keeping company petty cash checks, by issuing themselves extra paychecks, and
by inflating their paychecks. They also kept money that customers had paid the company for work,
converting those funds to their personal use. Joyce Minton was the office manager and bookkeeper
for the company; Aaron Brooke Warren was the company’s shop supervisor; and James Minton was a
contractor.

On Monday, the jury convicted Joyce Minton of 46 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, bank fraud, and
money laundering; Aaron Brooke Warren was convicted of 34 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, and
money laundering; and James Minton was convicted of 7 counts of conspiracy and mail fraud.

Carlton S. Shier, IV, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Amy Hess,
Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Richard W. Sanders, Commissioner of
the Kentucky State Police, jointly announced the verdict.

The case was investigated by the FBI and the Kentucky State Police. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Neeraj
Gupta and Ken Taylor prosecuted the case on behalf of the federal government.

The Defendants are currently scheduled to be sentenced on September 25, 2017, in Lexington. They
face a maximum sentence of 30 years for the convictions, as well as potential restitution and
forfeiture. Any sentence, however, will be imposed by the Court, after it has considered the U.S.
Sentencing Guidelines and the federal statutes governing the imposition of sentences.

A Logan man convicted of sexually abusing a child was sentenced Tuesday to the Utah State Prison.

Manuel Lynn Johnson, 58, was charged in February with aggravated sexual abuse of a child. Prosecutors said Johnson groomed the child in an effort to gain her trust and make the abuse seem innocent.

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Johnson was facing 15 years to life in prison, but in March accepted a plea deal. He pleaded guilty to attempted aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a lesser charge that dropped the mandatory minimum from 15 years to three.

On Tuesday in First District Court, Johnson was ordered to serve three years to life in the prison.

A Lexington business is asking for the public’s help in identifying the people they say tried to steal a motorcycle.

Brad Stinnett shared the surveillance video with LEX 18 of a man trying to take the bike but crashing into a wall at Central Kentucky Motorsports.

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He said that it happened around 2:20 p.m. Wednesday in the 1000 block of East New Circle.

The man and his accomplice got into an older model Chevy truck.

If you know who these people are, call police.

An associate pastor at Betania Baptist Church in east Austin wanted by authorities for the past two months has been arrested and charged with sexual assault of a child.

Fifty-nine-year-old Ruben Garcia, of Buda, was arrested by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force at around 2 p.m. Monday on Torrington Street in Buda.

In April of this year, Nueces County issued a warrant for his arrest in connection with a 2015 sexual assault or a child investigation in Corpus Christi.

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The task force also learned that Garcia had a warrant out for his arrest from Hays County. A grand jury indicted him on two counts of sexual assault of a child and one count of indecency with a child by sexual contact. The grand jury indictment is based on an investigation that began in early 2016.

Task force officers set up surveillance of Garcia’s church, Betania Baptist Church at 1117 Tillery St., where he served as an associate pastor.

“We would urge anyone having reason to believe their child or children may have been encountered inappropriately to contact their local law enforcement agency,” the task force said in a statement.

Garcia is in Hays County custody where bond has been set at $300,000.

A woman is accused of trying to abduct two children from their backyard.

Police say it happened back in May in Elizabethtown.

Chantelle Coates, 28, is accused of grabbing a five-year-old girl.

The girl’s grandmother saw it, and got into a fight with Coates.

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Then, police say, Coates tried to take a 10-year-old autistic child from the same yard, but the child fought back by biting her.

Deputies say Coates told them she was trying to protect the kids from ‘viscious dogs,’ but they didn’t see any.

Coates is also accused of trying to punch a deputy and kicking him in the leg.