Richland County deputies are searching for a new person who’s been missing since the flooding began.

Dustin Johnson, 22, was last seen early Sunday morning on October 4. Sheriff Leon Lott says Johnson was on leaving for work at the Food Lion on Hard Scrabble Road, and he never reported back to work the next day.

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He has not been seen or heard from since.

Dustin is a 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs 200 pounds, and has brown eyes and hair. He was wearing the clothes he wore to go to work at Food Lion.

Anyone who has any information on where he may be should call Crimetoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC.

A release from the Kentucky State Police post in Pikeville said that they are investigating a fatal accident that happened Monday.

The initial investigation indicated that Eli Bullock, 4, of Lickcreek, was a passenger in a vehicle that went over a steep embankment. When the vehicle went over, Bullock was ejected from it and sustained fatal injuries.

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Bullock was transported to Pikeville Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased.

The investigation continues.

A bank robber didn’t get much money when he robbed the Chase Bank on Nichols Park.

“Immediately goes and yells to everyone, intimidation, everybody get on the ground I’ve got a gun.  He doesn’t pull one out, but he implies one in his pocket,” said Detective Mark Thomas with the Lexington Police Department.

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He ordered the two tellers to empty their drawers, but thanks to the bank’s security system, that wasn’t much.

“If they try to come in here and get more cash, they’re gonna have to stand around and wait on police.  Any bank robber knows when you walk into a bank and start to make a disturbance, police are already on their way,” said Thomas.

The robber looked right at the bank’s cameras.

He was wearing a red, flowery, fisherman’s cap.

If you recognize him, you can call in an anonymous tip at (859) 253- 2020.

You can also leave information on the Crime Stoppers Facebook page.

Kentucky State Police Post 15 is asking for the public’s help in finding a missing 24-year-old woman from Dunville.

Whitney Danielle Copley was last seen September 30. She is described as a white female, 5’7, 110 pounds. She had hazel eyes and brown hair, a scar on the left side of her abdomen and tattoos of 3 stars and an infinity sign on her wrists, bows tattooed on her legs and a dragon fly tattooed on her lower back.

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It is not known what she was last wearing. Her last known address was on Decatur Road but she was known to stay in the Hustonville area.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Kentucky State Police at 1-800-222-5555.

A press release from the Kentucky State Police announced that the KSP Drug Enforcement Special Investigations West holds arrest warrants for Michael Isaiah Lancaster. He uses the alias of Michael Kendrick, last known to be in Lebanon.

Lancaster may have contacts in the Louisville area.

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The warrant is for the charge of Engaging in Organized Crime.

If anyone has information regarding the whereabouts of Michael Lancaster, please contact Kentucky State Police West Drug Enforcement at 270-746-7834 or your local law enforcement.

The Times Tribune reported Monday that a complaint about a horse sparked an investigation into the endangerment of three children.

The say that, according to a press release from the Whitley County Sheriff’s Office, around 3:30 p.m. Monday, Whitley County Animal Control Officer Wayne Perkins was responding to an Old Mill residence regarding a horse complaint when he contacted the sheriff’s department after fearing for the safety of the children at the residence.

There was allegedly broken glass outside of the residence and what deputies describe as a pungent odor.

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Times Tribune said that the release stated there were three children under the age of four at the residence, there was also three pigs, three dogs and one rabbit inside.

It was determined during the investigation that the children were in the care of 57-year-old James C. Lockaby, of Lily.

Lockaby had a warrant for his arrest in Knox County for endangering the welfare of a minor.

Joshua D. Jenkins, 24, and Aurora S. Jenkins, 22, both of Corbin, eventually arrived at the scene where they were charged with three counts of endangering the welfare of a minor and jailed in the Whitley County Detention Center.

They were accompanied by 31-year-old Johnathan Dawson, of London. The Times Tribune said that through a records search, it was determined Dawson was wanted for arrest out of Laurel County.

He was also arrested at the scene.

A former Birmingham police officer who faces child sex abuse and rape charges in Alabaster now faces an additional charge in south Alabama.

Joshua Herbinger, 30, is charged with sex abuse of a child less than 12 in Baldwin County, court records show. The former Birmingham Police Department evidence technician was indicted on the new charge in August and jailed last week.

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Court records filed by an Orange Beach police investigator say the abuse happened more than a year ago while Herbinger was on vacation there. The records indicate the victim was the same victim in the Alabaster case.

Herbinger was released from the Baldwin County Jail Friday after posting $50,000 bond. He was allowed to return to his grandmother’s home in Pleasant Grove with conditions to stay away from his victim and to stay off the computers.

He was first arrested Oct. 9,, 2014 and charged with four counts of sexual abuse of a child less than 12 years old after a young female reported the abuse to the School Resource Officer at her school. Alabaster police said Herbinger is not related to the victim.

He was arrested again by Alabaster police andcharged in the rape of an adult woman. He was charged with first-degree rape, and police said he wasn’t in any kind of relationship with the victim.

In late October 2014, he was fired from the Birmingham Police Department after serving nine years on the force.

A Winchester man has admitted to stealing over $3 million from his former employer, Apollo Oil.

On Monday, Bradley E. Taylor, 38, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, before U.S. District Court Judge Danny C. Reeves. Taylor, who worked as Apollo’s operations manager, admitted that he created a fictitious supplier, called BCW, LLC, and falsified purchase orders, invoices, and other shipping documents, causing Apollo to issue checks to BCW for nonexistent products. Taylor then stole the checks issued by Apollo, deposited them into a bank account he opened in the name of BCW, and converted the proceeds to his personal use.

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According to the plea agreement, from 2004 to 2014, Taylor caused Apollo to issue 232 checks to BCW, totaling $3,055,422.33. Taylor personally received all of
this money.

Taylor waived his right to be indicted by a grand jury, was formally charged in court, and admitted to the charges.

Taylor is scheduled to be sentenced on January 27, 2016. He faces up to 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000. However, any sentence will be
imposed by the Court after consideration of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and the federal statutes.

Lexington Police are investigating after a motel was robbed Monday night.

Police tell LEX 18 that the Red Roof Inn on Wilhite Drive in Lexington was robbed around 10 p.m. The clerk told police that a man entered the lobby with something silver in his pants, which the clerk believed was a firearm.

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The suspect made the clerk put cash in a grocery bag. He forced the clerk on the ground and exited the building with an unspecified amount of cash.

Investigators said the suspect is a 5-feet-9-inches black male who was last seen wearing a red hoodie.

If you have any information call police.

Police arrested a West Yarmouth woman for trafficking in prescription narcotics Friday, Oct. 2, after using a K9 unit to search a package en route from Florida.

Alerted to a suspicious package addressed to Rosa Herrera, 32, officers with the YPD and the State Police Drug Unit used a trained dog to inspect it. The dog Koda indicated the presence of drugs, and police waited for Herrera to arrive at the post office to retrieve the package.

When she picked up the package and left the post office, police stopped Herrera, and searched the package. They say it contained an innocuous-looking vitamin container, in which they found 775 pills identified as 30-milligram oxycodone, an addictive opioid painkiller.

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Police say the approximate street value of the pills was $30,000. They arrested Herrera for trafficking a class A substance.