A Catoosa County man is facing charges after investigators say he sexually abused a child.

Steven Pyburn, 44, was arrested Friday and charged with two counts of aggravated child molestation, two counts of aggravated sodomy and incest.

According to an incident report, the Catoosa County Sheriff’s Office was called to Pyburn’s residence on reports of sexual abuse. The alleged victim’s parent alerted authorities after the child told him she was abused by Pyburn over three years.

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Authorities also arrested and charged Pyburn’s wife, Sherry Pyburn, because they say she was aware of the abuse and did not report it. Sherry Pyburn has been charged with cruelty and being party to a crime.

A Kansas man wanted for child sex crimes was taken into custody less than an hour after law enforcement posted about him on Facebook.

Around 2 p.m. Thursday, the Harvey County Sheriff’s Office posted on their Facebook page, seeking information on the whereabouts of 47-year-old Sean Paul Sutton.

Sutton is wanted for two counts each of rape, aggravated criminal sodomy and aggravated indecent liberties with a child. The sheriff’s office said Sutton was believed to be in the Newton area.

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Not long after their post, a man said he had called the sheriff’s office about Sutton’s location. The sheriff’s office replied about 15 minutes later, saying Sutton had been captured.

The Harvey County Sheriff’s Office said the following about Sutton’s capture:

“Thanks to 1 tip received, we have successfully taken Sean Sutton into custody on his $100,000 warrant for Rape x2, Aggravated Criminal Sodomy x2, and Aggravated Indecent Liberties with a Child x2. Sutton was taken into custody within 55 minutes after posting our original wanted poster here on our Facebook page.
This kind of success would not be possible without citizens like YOU, right here in Harvey County! Good work!”

The exact location where Sutton was apprehended was not released.

Kansas Department of Corrections records show Sutton spent time on Community Corrections for a drug possession conviction from 2009.

A child sexual abuse suspect shot and killed himself in front of officers sent to check on his welfare, county police said Thursday.

Bruce Durante, 58, of the 2300 block of Milton Place in the Governor’s Square neighborhood in Bear, committed suicide on Sunday in front of officers outside a home nearby in Bear, Officer First Class Tracey Duffy said.

Police have identified two victims and are trying to determine whether there were more.

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Durante retired in February after more than 30 years’ service as a New Castle County paramedic, she said. He also had served as a volunteer firefighter, but she declined to identify which company he served with because “he wasn’t active for many years.”

The incidents in which he is suspected of abusing two girls – one under the age of 10, the other under the age of 16 – were not connected in any way to his emergency service work, Duffy said.

The county police department’s Criminal Investigations Unit, Family Services Squad, began investigating Durante early Sunday morning after an incident was reported, she said.

Later Sunday, she said, police were called Sunday to check on his welfare at a home in the 400 block of Lovers Lane, Duffy said.

“They didn’t go to the house to arrest him,” she said.

The officers called Durante by phone and asked him to come outside, Duffy said.

He came out of the house, holding a handgun, she said, but “officers on scene were not threatened and did not discharge their firearms.”

Durante immediately pointed the gun at himself and fired, she said. Police are not releasing details of his fatal injury.

Officers attempted first aid before he was taken to Christiana Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Duffy said.

His death was not announced immediately because of the ongoing investigation, she said.

As the investigation continued, detectives learned of his second victim and determined the abuse began in November 2013 and continued through March of this year, she said.

Any additional victims are asked to report the crime to the New Castle County Police by calling (302) 573-2800.

Information also may be given at www.nccpd.com and the police department’s Facebook page, using its smartphone app and through Delaware Crime Stoppers at (800) TIP-3333 and www.tipsubmit.com.

Santa Fe sheriff’s detectives have captured a man wanted on a warrant for identity theft and fraudulent credit card crimes.

Johnny Moreno and four other suspects were arrested in April in connection to an identity theft ring bust.

The sheriff’s office said Moreno and the others worked together to steal bank statements, credit cards and checks from mailboxes.

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Deputies identified at least six victims in the case, but believed there may be more.

If you see suspicious activity or believe you could be a victim, contact the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office.

In an update to a case we’ve been closely following, four indictments were handed down today in the shooting death of Roy Combs, the Madison County man killed just before his 26th birthday.Kirk Garrett will be tried for murder.

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Don Attaway, Kristi Mattingly, and Christopher Coleman were indicted on complicity to murder charges. State police say the four planned to lure Combs and his brother to a fake drug deal and “teach them a lesson.” All four have already entered not guilty pleas

Investigators say a man found dead Wednesday inside of his Bath County home had been stabbed several times.

As of Thursday evening, no arrests have been made in the murder of Henry Meade, 54. A friend found Meade’s body around 7 p.m. Wednesday on Wyoming Road near Owingsville.

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“He loved to mow and weed eat and he loved his garden,” that friend, Mike Swartz told LEX 18’s Josh Breslow. “Everybody in the community down there where he lived just stopped and bragged on him and everything.”

Swartz owns Swartz Farms, 350 acres of land where Meade lived and worked for about 11 years. He also worked for Mike Swartz Construction and Tree Removal.

Meade missed work on Wednesday and Swartz said he went by his longtime friend’s home to make sure he was alright.

“He was supposed to come out here and weed eat and he didn’t show up. We knew something was wrong,” Swartz said. “I opened the door and I seen.. It’s bad.”

Meade may have actually died the day before his body was found.

“Why’d you do it for? I mean he wouldn’t hurt a fly. He didn’t have no enemies. Everybody liked him,” Swartz said.

Anyone with information on the murder investigation is asked to contact the Morehead post of State Police at (606) 784-4127.

The owner of Patriot Computers, a Virginia corporation, was charged by grand jury indictment today with wire fraud for stealing $809,205.43 from multiple victims, announced Acting United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.

According to the four count indictment, from December 1, 2012, through April 14, 2014, Mark Allen Hartley, age 55, of Land O Lakes, Florida, devised a scheme to defraud First Citizens Bank of Hardin County, Kentucky, and its customers. At the time, Hartley operated a business called Spartan Group Inc., dba Patriot Computers. Patriot Computers sold computer equipment to its customers on installment sales contracts. Customers of Patriot Computers agreed to have specified amounts of money taken from their paychecks on a regular basis until their purchases were paid in full. These customers completed payment authorization forms for these payment arrangements, and then Patriot Computers submitted these forms to First Citizens Bank in Hardin County, Kentucky. First Citizens Bank, through its bill payment service, would then transfer the payments from each customer’s paycheck to Patriot Computers’ account at Wells Fargo Bank until the customer’s contract with Patriot Computers was paid in full.

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As part of the scheme and artifice to defraud, Hartley created fraudulent payment authorization forms and transmitted those, by e-mail, to First Citizens Bank. This caused the bank to transfer unauthorized payments from victims’ paychecks to an account at Wells Fargo Bank, controlled by Hartley. These unauthorized payments totaled approximately $809,205.43.

If convicted at trial, Hartley could be sentenced to no more than 20 years in prison for each count, fined $250,000 for each count and sentenced to three years of supervised release.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jason Snyder and is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The indictment of a person by a Grand Jury is an accusation only and that person is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.