Lincoln County deputies arrested a man they say was caught trying to dig up a grave Monday night.

Officials say Michael D. May, 44, was digging up the grave of his father at the Pilot Baptist Church. Deputies say May told them he wanted to argue with his dad, who died about 30 years ago. Officials say May was under the influence.

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Deputies arrested May and charged him with violating a grave, public intoxication and possession of marijuana.

A Jacksonville man was sentenced to six years in prison for staging a car accidents and defrauding his insurance company.

Guillermo de la Vega, 50, helped organize and participated in a fake car accident.

The State Attorney’s Office and the Division of Insurance Fraud says Vega filed fraudulent Personal Injury Protection claims through the Arlington Rehabilitation Center, Inc.

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Laurel County residents decided to intervene when they saw a 23-month-old baby alone and crying outside his home for multiple hours. Curtis Harbach and his wife had seen the toddler, in diapers, outside of his home on Delbert Hodge Road in London, Kentucky. They wondered where the parents were, but gave them the benefit of the doubt.

“The screen door was shut but the front door was open,” said Harbach.

After doing things around their home for a few hours, Harbach and his wife were surprised to see the 23-month-old child still alone and crying outside of his home.

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“He was thirsty, he was scared and he was crying and was neglected at that point,” said Harbach.

Harbach and his wife took the child to their house and called 911 after attempting to knock on the door and alert someone at home about the child.

According to the arrest citation the child’s father, Danny Jones, was home sleeping while the toddler was crying on the front porch for about four hours. Jones is charged with endangering the welfare of a minor, public intoxication and possession of drug paraphernalia.

“I’m very happy they got him before anything happened,” the child’s mother told LEX18. She said she does not have custody of her son.

“I could’ve gone to jail because I took someone else’s kid,” said Harbach. “My wife feels the same way, worth it to make sure the child was safe.”

We are told that the child is now safe with his grandparents.

The man who pleaded guilty to murdering a Whitley County toddler was sentenced on Monday.

Police say Mark Hyden was taking care of Trina White’s 2-year-old daughter, Madisyn Davis, when she suffered fatal injuries. Hyden pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years.

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White is scheduled to go to trial in January on murder charges. Police say the child died of blunt force trauma and asphyxiation. She had previously been in jail on child endangerment charges  and charges related to meth.

A former Kentucky woman, now living in Michigan is accused of locking her handicapped sister in a closet for years while collecting the victim’s benefits.

Candy Lawson, 44, was arrested last week, charged with vulnerable adult abuse, false imprisonment, and embezzlement.

According to police in Corunna, Michigan, last month, a tip from a handyman led officers to Lawson’s 42-year-old deaf, mute sister locked in a closet in the suspect’s home. Officers said the victim, who communicates only in writing, had been locked up for six or seven years with little food, water, or clothing and only a bucket for a bathroom. She weighed just 74 pounds.

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“The stench was just unreal, walking up the stairs,” said Chief Nick Chiros with the Corunna Police Department. “Once she was transported to the hospital, she was continually asking for food.”

Lawson had moved to Michigan from Kentucky, about a year ago. Investigators said it’s possible that the abuse started while she lived in Kentucky, at a home on Saint John’s Road in Franklin County.

Lawson owned a tattoo shop in Frankfort, Candy’s Body Art, where she worked closely with Raymond Russell.

“We were family pretty much. I still feel like we’re family,” Russell told LEX 18’s Josh Breslow. “The sister, as far as I’d known, had never been there. I’d never seen her there.. and every time she ever talked about her sister, it was always ‘I have to go to Michigan to be with my sister’.”

Franklin County Sheriff Pat Melton told LEX 18 that his office was contacted Friday by someone trying to locate information on Lawson’s brother. Melton said that brother died of a heart attack in 2009.

Lawson has no previous criminal history in Franklin County other than some traffic violations.

A woman who was added to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Top Ten Most Wanted list was arrested Friday night in Ashland, Kentucky.

Crystal Bradshaw, 41,  was arrested without incident at an apartment on Ester Avenue in Ashland. The arrest was a joint effort between Special Agents with the TBI, troopers with the Kentucky State Police, officers with the Ashland Police Department in Kentucky and deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee.

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Bradshaw was wanted by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office for Felony Aggravated Kidnapping and Felony Trafficking for Commercial Sex Acts. The charges stem from the kidnapping of a 15-year-old Kentucky female who was recovered in Montgomery County, Tennessee.

Bradshaw was booked at the Ashland Police Department. She will await extradition to Tennessee.