Missing Person Jonathan “Ryan” Foley of Knox County, KY

A Knox county family hopes that instead of having a birthday party they’ll have a homecoming celebration after days of searching for their missing loved one.Jonathan “Ryan” Foley’s 27th birthday is tomorrow. His truck has been found but since Tuesday, there’s been no trace of him.

Authorities in Barbourville said they’re working around the clock to try to find 26 year-old Jonathan Ryan Foley, better known as Ryan to family and friends. Foley was last seen Tuesday. His parents, Beverly and Charles said Ryan left home to get gas and made sure to take his dads cell phone with him.

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“(He) said he’d be back in 15 minutes. Two hours later we hadn’t heard from him, so we called the phone and it went straight to voice mail,” explained Beverly Foley, Ryan’s Mother.

Worried, the Foley’s began calling Ryan’s friends and eventually police. On Wednesday, they said his pickup was discovered at a Barbourville factory parking lot covered in mud. Detective Steve Owens said it was an odd location.

“Just not a place where any one generally parks a vehicle to leave it for any amount of time. It’s also a controlled parking lot where you expect that if you don’t have a parking pass there it’s going to be towed,” stated Detective Owens.

The family said they are left wondering where Ryan is and if he’ll make it home safely to celebrate tomorrow, his 27th birthday.

At this time the investigation is ongoing, if you have any information you are asked to call Barbourville Police.

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Fraud Investigation Sturgeon, MO Woman Arrested

Boone County sheriff’s investigators say a Sturgeon woman with a history of fraud has been defrauding family members and charged at least $29,000 on credit accounts opened in the name of an 80-year-old woman.

On Tuesday, detectives arrested Michele G. Brown, 40, of 18021 N. Old Highway 63 on suspicion of financial exploitation, fraudulent use of credit device, forgery and a probation and parole violation. They suspect Brown opened up numerous credit cards in the name of an elderly woman she is living with and charged at least $29,000 since May 2010, according to a Boone County Sheriff’s Department news release. That amount is expected to grow as the investigation continues and detectives determine the full extent of the alleged crime.

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Investigators were contacted yesterday by Brown’s family members and family members of the 80-year-old woman she lives with on Kinloch Court to report “financial misdeeds,” the news release said.

Brown remained in the Boone County Jail this morning with a bond yet to be set. She pleaded guilty to two counts of felony fraudulent use of a credit device in 2005 and was placed on five years of supervised probation. She also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor stealing in 2000.

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Missing Person Morris Randle William of Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi Police are searching for a disabled man who was last seen Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 5:40pm at the Greyhound Bus Station. Morris Randle William was separated from his traveling companion shortly after they their arrival at the bus station. He came to Corpus Christi to be medically evaluated for a brain injury he suffered in a motorcycle accident. His left arm is paralyzed and he walks with a limp.

Morris is a 57-year-old White man who is 6’1″ feet tall, and weighs 180 pounds. He has bushy brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a beige sweater, faded blue jeans, and white tennis shoes.

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Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of Missing Person Randle William Morris should call Corpus Christi Police Department at 361-886-2600 or Homicide/Robbery Detective R.L. Garcia at 361-886-2841.

Additionally; the Corpus Christi Police Department would like the public to know there is no time period one must wait before reporting a person as missing. If a person is missing and possibly in some kind of danger, call police immediately.

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Missing Person Suzanne Hershberger of Enid, Ok

Oklahoma City police and family members are searching for an Enid woman who has been missing since Monday evening.

Suzanne Hershberger, 52, was last seen about 5 p.m. Monday at St. Anthony Hospital, 1000 N Lee Ave.

She was taken to the hospital after being off her blood thinner medication for two weeks and developing blood clots in her legs, said her sister, Phyllis Crosswhite.

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Hershberger refused medical treatment and was cleared from the hospital. She probably was wearing scrubs and flip flops when she left, Crosswhite said.

Hershberger is 5 feet 11 inches, weighs about 180 pounds and has shoulder-length light brown hair, green eyes and fair skin. She wears glasses, walks with a limp, and has crooked, caved-in front teeth.

“She is from Enid. She knows absolutely nothing about this area of town,” Crosswhite said.

She said Hershberger needs medication as soon as possible.

“We know she can’t survive without her medication,” she said.

Anyone who sees Hershberger is asked to call 911.

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Missing Person George Sliter of Redwood City, CA Found Dead

The remains of Redwood City resident George Sliter, a retiree who went missing Sunday morning in the Aptos hills were found Tuesday around 10 a.m., the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office has reported.

Sliter, 74, was last seen around 8:30 a.m. Sunday at the Monte Toyon Retreat Center, where he was staying with friends.

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The search for Sliter entered its third day Tuesday morning. At its peak, more than 100 Search and Rescue volunteers were looking for him on foot, on horseback, on ATVs and dirt bikes, and with police tracking dogs.

The area where Sliter went missing is adjacent to The Forest of Nisene Marks State Park, a rugged 10,000-acre wilderness.

Details on where Sliter was found and what caused his death were not immediately available.

According to friends and Sheriff’s deputies, Sliter had breakfast with friends at the retreat center early Sunday morning, then said he planned to take a walk in the woods before rejoining them for church services at 9:15 a.m.

His friends worried and reported him missing when he never showed up for the services.

Two women reported that they had been walking in the woods when a man matching Sliter’s description asked them how to get to the retreat center around 10:45 a.m., later that morning.

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Fraud Investigation Tampa Man Pleads Guilty to Tax Fraud

A tax-refund fraud suspect has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Investigators traced tax returns claiming nearly $9 million in refunds to Internet addresses assigned to the home and business of Russell B. Simmons Jr., according to a plea agreement signed by Simmons and filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court.

As part of the agreement, Simmons, 42, owner of Simmons Auto Sales, 4615 N. 34th St., agreed to forfeit items he purchased with the proceeds of tax fraud, including a $60,000 Bentley coupe and diamond jewelry that included a $30,000, 18-karat gold Rolex watch with a diamond dial; a 14-karat gold men’s bracelet with 2,420 diamonds; a 14-karat chain and “RS” pendant with 703 diamonds; and a 14-karat ring with 110 diamonds.

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Simmons also agreed to forfeit $118,275 stored on preloaded debit cards and $47,580 in cash seized by investigators.

Identity theft tax-refund fraud has exploded in the last couple of years, with thieves using stolen identities to file tax returns to obtain fraudulent refunds. Authorities say Tampa-area criminals have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars this way from federal taxpayers, while thieves nationwide have stolen billions.

In his plea agreement, Simmons admitted filing millions of dollars worth of fraudulent tax returns and laundering fraudulent refunds for other criminals through his car dealership. Many of the people whose identities Simmons used were older, according to the plea agreement, and all of the victims contacted by investigators said they neither knew Simmons nor gave him permission to use their information.

The charges Simmons agreed to admit carry a maximum possible prison sentence of 22 years, although he likely will receive less under the terms of the agreement. Simmons also agreed to cooperate with investigators.

Simmons was among a number of business owners arrested in the joint investigation last year, initially on state identity theft and credit card-fraud charges, after Secret Service agents searched his business Aug. 31, 2011.

However, the charges were dismissed because of the pending federal investigation, and Simmons was allowed to go free.

As the case wore on, Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor went public with her irritation at the slow pace of the investigation into a piece of the tax fraud scourge spreading among street criminals. Authorities say hundreds of millions of dollars in bogus income tax returns have been processed from the Tampa area alone.

“We have an individual that we know did in the ballpark of $9 million in tax fraud,” Castor said in February. “He was arrested and charged in September. And there’s no reason for us to believe that he’s slowed down at all.”

In March, Tampa Police Detective Sal Augeri testified before a U.S. Senate subcommittee in Washington about tax refund fraud and described the Simmons case without naming him.

“We have no reason to believe he has stopped committing this crime,” Augeri said then.

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Identity Theft Woman Hides Id Theft in Private Area

St. Louis County Police said when she was arrested, a woman was hiding names, birth dates and social security numbers of seven people from an adult day center in a very womanly area.

A North County woman was discovered concealing stolen information that would have been used to steal identities of seven people, St. Louis County Police said.

Apryl Rene Washington, 30, of the 1400 block of Monopoly Drive in unincorporated North County, was charged Oct. 30 with trafficking in stolen identities.

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St. Louis County Police said Washington was arrested at 6:30 p.m. May 22 in the 1100 block of Benham Road on an outstanding warrant from the city of St. Louis.

A female officer discovered she concealed a wallet in her vaginal area. A piece of paper inside the wallet contained seven names, with dates of birth and social security numbers of the people. All were connected to an adult day care center in Spanish Lake.

Washington said she had never seen the paper before and that the wallet belonged to another woman, who is named on the paper and works at the center. Washington said she believes the other woman is involved in identity theft.

Washington is being held in St. Louis County jail. Bail was set at $25,000.

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Accident Reconstruction DUI Crash in Casey County

A woman suffered injuries and was cited for DUI after a pickup truck crashed into a home in Casey County early Wednesday morning.

Police say Debra Gilpin, 29, was driving eastbound along KY-78 when she lost control, overcorrected and slammed into an unoccupied home. EMS took Gilpin to Ephraim McDowell Medical Center in Danville for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

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Police say troopers cited Gilpin for DUI.

A passenger in the truck, Jeremy Cook, 33, was not hurt. Officials say troopers cited him with public intoxication.

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Arson Investigation Man and House Fire in Mercer County

Authorities continue to investigate a bizarre series of events in Mercer County.

Officials with the Harrodsburg Fire Department say a man set himself on fire late Tuesday night. EMS found the man along Johnson Road, and the victim was airlifted to UK hospital. It remains unclear if the man set himself ablaze on purpose, or if it was an accident.

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Officials did not release any information on the man’s condition.

A short time later, firefighters responded to a home burning along Johnson Road. The blaze destroyed the house. Nobody was injured, but the fire displaced a family of five. The Red Cross was called in to provide assistance.

It remains unclear what, if any, connection exists between the two incidents.

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Insurance Fraud Chiropractor in FL Pleads Guilty

A Broward chiropractor on Monday pleaded guilty to a federal charge connected to an accident-staging ring at two clinics in Palm Beach County, according to court records.

Jennifer Adams, 39, of Boca Raton, admitted to one count of conspiring to commit mail fraud and agreed to pay more than $1.92 million in restitution to 10 insurance companies.

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Adams admitted that she allowed her name to be used to establish two chiropractic clinics, Ovy Rehabilitation Medical Center, Inc. in West Palm Beach, and Chiropractic Office of South Florida, LLC in Palm Springs.

Both clinics were used to submit fraudulent insurance claims on behalf of “patients” who were involved in staged accidents and pretended they needed treatment, federal prosecutors said.

Recruiters found drivers and their friends or family members to take part in the faked accidents and then claim personal injury protection payments of $10,000 per person. The recruiters sent the “patients” to clinics where staff filed fraudulent paperwork for them.

Adams admitted that she signed off on prescriptions and paperwork falsely claiming that full, lengthy examinations and treatments were provided when she knew that participants got little or no treatment.

Adams got hired after responding to an ad on Craigslist in November 2009, she said. She initially believed the clinics were legitimate but was later told about the fraud, according to court records.

Adams, who has been a chiropractor in Florida since 1999 and also practiced in Fort Lauderdale, agreed to give up her medical licenses.

She appeared to be the owner of the clinics, but prosecutors said that her co-conspirators, who took most of the profits, were actually running them and controlled the bank accounts. Adams was paid a salary of $1,200 a week to work for four hours, investigators said.

The maximum punishment is 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 though she will likely face a much lesser penalty when she is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel T. K. Hurley in federal court in West Palm Beach in the next several weeks.

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