Police officers responded to the call of a stabbing near a Lexington gentleman’s club.

The incident occurred near the Deja Vu strip club near New Circle Road. Lexington Fire received the call around 11 a.m. from the Deja Vu and responded. The male victim was walking on the trail by the nearby creek when he says a short, Hispanic male tried to rob him and then stabbed him with a knife in the abdomen.

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The man was taken to UK Hospital with a non-life threatening stab wound to the abdomen.

Police continue to search for 33-year-old Tiffanee Trecek, who might have been abducted.

Investigators said Wednesday Trecek may have changed her hair color to purple prior to the incident just after midnight Tuesday when a home invasion and robbery were reported at an apartment southwest of 84th and Q streets. A caller reported that a man was outside the building holding a gun and left in a black SUV. Three victims were located and reported a home invasion.

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Detectives determined that Trecek may have been abducted during the incident. Officers later interviewed someone at North 11th and Grace streets hoping for information. Police don’t believe Trecek is in immediate danger, but do want to locate her. Anyone with information about her possible whereabouts is asked to call police at 402-444-5692 or Crime Stoppers at 402-444-STOP.

A suspect identified as Terry Stafford was taken into police custody and booked for robbery, possession of a gun by a prohibited person and use of a gun to commit a felony.

The names of Terry Stafford and Tiffanee Trecek surfaced last month in an incident in Sarpy County. According to court records, on August 16th, Bellevue police came in contact with a Chevy Impala that matched the description of a vehicle that had been involved in a hit-and-run accident during which the suspect displayed a gun. The driver was ordered to pull over, but sped away.

The officer lost sight of the Impala that was later found in a driveway. The license plate number indicated the car was stolen from South Dakota.

The car had a large amount of cash on the center console alongside a baggie containing a white powder. There was also a Social Security card in the name of Terry Stafford and a motel receipt in the name of Tiffanee Trecek in the vehicle that was towed to the Bellevue police garage as investigators sought a search warrant for the property.

A Laurel County man is accused of holding his pregnant girlfriend against her will and threatening to kill her unborn child.

The woman told deputies that 20-year-old Erik Anderson hit her, then forced her to stay in their apartment for three days because he wanted the bruises to heal before anyone could see her. She said she was without food during this time.

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According to deputies, she claims that Anderson threatened to punch her belly and kill the baby if he went to jail. Anderson is charged with unlawful imprisonment, assault and wanton endangerment.

Her friends were concerned after not seeing her for days. They went to the apartment to see her Tuesday which is what led to her escape.

“Some of her friends came over and while her friends were at the apartment, distracting him, she was able to escape. Then her friends took her to the hospital to be treated,” said Deputy Gilbert Acciardo with the Laurel County Police Department.

“I talked to her a couple of weeks ago, and she told me was just fine. She pulled her arms out, said ‘does it look like he beats on me’?” Anderson’s cousin, Regina Garland, told LEX 18’s Steve Butera.

Garland said that there was past trouble with Anderson, but she never expected this kind of abuse.

“Even though he’s kin to me, he deserves what he gets,” said Garland.

Anderson was in court Wednesday morning.

There was a shooting on Pemberton and East Sixth Street Wednesday.

According to Lt. Jonathan Bastion, the victim got into some sort of altercation with the shooter and the shooter’s friends when one of the men started to fire at the victim several times while he was in his car.

The victim drove to Chestnut Street where he had his family call 911. While driving there, the victim hit a silver SUV and delivery truck.

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Police say that the vehicle that the shooter and his friends were in was reported stolen earlier that day. The shooter and his friends all ran away on foot and were last seen going east on Sixth Street.

The gunman is described as a black male wearing a long sleeve, green shirt or sweatshirt.

The victim was shot in the leg and arm, but he was alert and talking to police. He was taken to UK.

A woman has been arrested after a man’s body has been found in a Pulaski County home .

51-year-old Teresa Owens has been arrested after the body of her boyfriend was discovered in a freezer inside the living room of her Happy Ridge Road. Deputies were there responding to a missing persons report.

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Owens’ arrest citation says that she tried to dispose of the body by pouring lye and fertilizer on top of it. The report goes on to say that the man’s arms were also tied with several pieces of string.

The identity of the man has not been released.

Owens is charged with tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse. She has been lodged in the Pulaski County Detention Center

A death investigation in Rockcastle County led to a drug investigation and arrest.

On Monday, KSP Detectives assisted the Mount Vernon Police Department on a death investigation that was being conducted at the Econo-Lodge Hotel.

The Coroner states that a body was found, but it appeared the victim died of natural causes. Upon further investigation, detectives obtained two separate search warrants for two residences.

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One was for a residence located on Lair Street in Mount Vernon. That search warrant yielded ½ ounces of suspected marijuana, 281 suspected Oxycodone pills, 341 suspected Xanax pills and two suspected Suboxone strips. In addition Troopers siezed $13,180.00 in US currency, 10 long-guns, 4 hand-guns, a 1974 Chevrolet Corvette, a 2013 Nissan Altima and a 2003 Honda Motorcycle.

The second search warrant was for a safety deposit box at the Peoples Bank of Mount Vernon. That search resulted in the seizure of $10,000.00 in US currency.

Evidence discovered at the residence lead to the arrest of 68-year-old Logan R. Towery.

Towery was lodged in the Rockcastle County Detention Center and charged with trafficking in a controlled substance within a 1,000 yards of a school.

A Lexington man is facing 23 charges including possession of a forged instrument and fraudulent use of a credit card.
According to his arrest citation, police received calls from Central Bank saying they believed a batch of their credit cards had been compromised back in July, but all of the victims still had their cards.
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Police say 27-year-old David Burnside was using re-encoded Central Bank credit cards. Burnside was arrested Wednesday morning.

Central Bank says this was a merchant breach and the bank’s fraud security caught it immediately. The bank gave customers new cards and no one’s accounts were affected.

Albuquerque police issued a missing adult alert Tuesday for a 35-year-old woman missing since Sept. 19.

APD says Sara Sydow, 35, was last seen at her job at the TA truck stop in the 2500 block of University NE two Saturdays ago and has not been seen or heard from since.

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Police say her mother and friends are concerned about her safety.

Sydow is described as 5’9″ and 160 pounds, with brown eyes and blonde hair. If you have any information on her whereabouts, contact APD at 924-6099 or 242-COPS.

Investigators said they targeted veterinarians across several states, including Kentucky, stealing thousands of dollars worth of pet medicine. Now, Lexington Police said the burglary ring has been shut down, and the men responsible, Jason Leffew and Timothy Ross, are sitting in a Tennessee jail.

For months a couple of want to be cat-burglars were caught on camera breaking into vet, after vet, after vet.

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“I was always wondering when we would get hit,” said Dr. Mark Dobbs.

He said it was bound to happen. Even with added security measures his clinic, the Regency Animal Hospital in Lexington, was hit twice.

“They took a bunch of stuff, came in and got  $12-thousand dollars or so worth of stuff,” said Dr. Dobbs.

Dobbs’ security cameras show two men wearing masks, on a mission to take the most expensive medicines. Among the highest priced were pre-packaged flea products and heart worm preventives.

“They’re just trying to steal the products and turn a profit,” said Dobbs.

Police said it’s the same M.O. used at clinics in Jessamine and Madison Counties, plus dozens of clinics as far away as Tennessee, Ohio and North Carolina.

“They had as much as $7,00-thousand dollars worth of product, and you can’t get rid of that too quickly. And they said it’s part of an ongoing investigation,” said Dobbs.

Finally, that investigation led detectives to Jason Leffew and Timothy Ross, in Knoxville Tennessee. According to the Knox County Jail, Leffew and Ross are being held without bond, for burglary and theft. Lexington Police said the duo are charged with three counts of burglary for the break-ins in Lexington.

While the extent of the “cat”-burglar crime spree is still unfolding, Dobbs said he’s happy his added video security helped crack the case.

“I am real happy that the system is in place,” said Dobbs. “Hopefully we are at the end of this.”

The Boyle County man accused of stealing hemp plants pleaded guilty in court Tuesday.

Witnesses said that they saw a truck full of what looked like Marijuana plants outside of Walmart. The bizarre scene caused Walmart shoppers to call police.

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Investigators said that they were actually stolen hemp plants.

Preston pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property and was sentenced to a little more than four months in jail with two years of probation.