Lexington Police have charged a man already in custody in connection with one of the city’s latest homicides.

Jermaine M. Anderson has been charged with murder and assault in the shooting of two brothers. It happened on June 7, when officers responded to a shooting scene on Whitney Avenue. There they located two assault victims shot while sitting in their Cadillac.

One of those assault victims later died and was identified by the Office of the Fayette County Coroner as Montez L. Graves.On June 7, when officers arrived on the shooting scene, 911 communications officials received information about a possible suspect seen fleeing the area. Officers located Anderson and initiated a foot pursuit.

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Following the pursuit, Mr. Anderson was arrested and charged with fleeing, tampering with physical evidence and trafficking in cocaine.

The additional charges were added today.

A few hours after the first shooting, police were called to Charles Avenue to investigate another shooting, only a block away from Whitney Avenue. When police arrived on scene, they say Ronnie Graves was shot at least once and died from his injuries. Ronnie Graves was the two previous victims’ uncle.

A non-profit organization in Grant County is seeking the public’s help after they say a thief was captured on camera taking a freezer.

H.O.P.E is a non-profit that stands for “Helping Out People Everywhere.” Volunteers say a thief helped himself to a freezer Sunday afternoon after pilfering through donated items.

Surveillance video shows a man showing up after hours when nobody was around. He loads a freezer up in his blue pick-up truck that has silver on the bottom with an extended cab. Volunteers say the freezer he stole was donated to H.O.P.E under some very special circumstances.

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“He pulled up…rummaged around and looked through all the stuff and took the freezer that had been donated in memory of a family that lost their daughter,” says volunteer Terri Trumbo.

If you have any idea who the man is, you are asked to call the Grant Co. Sheriff’s Office.

For a Martin county family one heartbreak is following another.

Last week, Martin county residents Sharon Newcome and Virgil Perry died in a fiery Pennsylvania crash, leaving behind five children. Their oldest daughter, Rachel, says a group of heartless thieves wasted no time in stealing items the couple left behind.

“I felt violated,” Rachel says. “What they took was stuff left by my mom and dad.”

The sheriff’s office says someone stole electronics and a week eater from the family’s home, and Rachel is upset that the thieves took advantage of their parents’ death only five days after the fatal crash.

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To make matters even worse, the Sheriff’s office says Rachel’s cousin, Jonathan Mollet, is connected to the crime and is charged with receiving stolen property.

Rachel says she’s not only trying to cope with her parents’ death, but why someone wanted to cash in on the tragedy.

The Sheriff’s office says they’re questioning other persons of interest, and have been able to return some of the items to the family.

A 20-year-old Irondale man has been charged in an identity theft scheme involving 41 victims. Hoover Police were first contacted in December by a resident who had his personal information used at a car dealership in Dallas. The suspect was attempting an online purchase of a 2014 BMW valued at $76,000. While this transaction was not completed, it alerted detectives to an address in Irondale and a possible suspect name.

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Detectives then began uncovering additional fraudulent activity associated with this suspect and specific addresses linked to him. It was also determined that of the 41 confirmed victims, 39 of them were former patients of a physician who once worked at Trinity Hospital in Birmingham. Those patient records, which were being stored on the Trinity campus, were compromised or stolen. The suspect appeared to have familiarity and possibly access to the Trinity campus through a family member who was employed there as a contractor.

On May 29, Hoover Police Financial Crimes detectives met with the Jefferson County District Attorney’s White Collar Crimes Division. Warrants were issued and the suspect is charged as follows:

Charles Cheeks, 20, Irondale

• 34 Counts of Identity Theft: No bond

Cheeks’ online scam began approximately 14 months ago and included over 500 attempts to make fraudulent purchases with the stolen information. He was successful in purchasing 14 automobiles valued at $561,000.00. Each of the 14 cars was delivered to addresses associated with Cheeks, either in Irondale or Trussville. Those vehicles were delivered from dealerships in Indiana, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio, Georgia and North Carolina. Four of the automobiles have been recovered so far in the Birmingham area.

All of the fraudulent transactions were completed online and via email and fax correspondence. Cheeks frequently posed as a hearing-impaired person, which he used to avoid telephone conversations. He also fraudulently purchased automobile insurance policies and cellular telephones.

The Georgia State Patrol arrested Cheeks around 8 p.m. Saturday night in Thomasville, Georgia. An officer attempted to stop him for speeding but Cheeks fled. After leading the officer on a high-speed pursuit, Cheeks eventually pulled over and surrendered peacefully. He was driving one of the cars stolen during his identity theft spree, a 2014 IS350F Lexus, taken from Oklahoma. He was transported to the Thomas County Jail. He will face theft and other charges related to the pursuit. It is not known at this time when he will return to Jefferson County to face the Hoover charges.

Anyone with additional information concerning Cheeks or the location of vehicles stolen by him should call Hoover Detective Austin Tubb at 444-7602.

The body of a missing Kansas woman has been found after her killer called 9-1-1.

Mitchell: “Um, you just had some officers come by and uh, there’s. They were looking for a missing person.”

Dispatch: “Okay.”

Mitchell: “And uh, they probably need to get back over here because I have murdered her.”

Dispatch: “I’m sorry, you’ve done what?”

Mitchell: “I killed her.”

Loved ones began to worry last week after no one could get ahold of Tanya Tandoc.

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Her boyfriend asked police to go check on her. They questioned her roommate, Curt Mitchell.

But it was after police left that Mitchell decided to talk.

Mitchell: “Um, I have no weapons and I intend no harm to anyone. I just uh.. It happened last night. It was kind of a crime of passion.”

Dispatch: “Who is this girl?”

Mitchell: “Uh, her name is Tanya Tandoc.”

Dispatch: “How do you know her?”

Mitchell: “We were roommates and for a short time involved.”

Dispatch: “Okay, hang on one second for me. Okay?”

Police say Mitchell waited on the porch for officers to return.

Tandoc’s body was found in the basement. Investigators say she died from blunt force trauma, but not as the result of an argument.

Tandoc’s boyfriend believes Mitchell may have been mad because she had asked him to move out.

Lexington’s latest homicide involves a marine killed early Tuesday morning while sleeping inside of his house.

Police said Thomas Brown, 55, was asleep with his wife at their house on Gerald Drive in the Winburn neighborhood. Around 2 a.m. someone fired several shots through a side and back window, hitting Brown three or four times. Brown was taken to UK Hospital where he died about an hour later.

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Brown’s wife and another man inside of the home were not hurt.

There were a total of eight bullet holes visible in the windows.

“I just heard a couple of popping sounds,” Caroline Benford, a neighbor told LEX 18’s Josh Breslow. “I went to open the door and the police are knocking at my door.. It happens everywhere in the city. It just happened to have happened here to us, this time.”

Nine people have been shot in Lexington since Sunday. That includes two murders late Sunday.

Montez Graves, 31, was killed Sunday evening when he and his brother were shot while inside of a car along Whitney Avenue. Two hours later, Graves’ uncle, Ronnie Graves was murdered on nearby Charles Avenue.

Police have not said if they believe Brown’s murder could be connected to Sunday’s killings.

“We actually just met last week and talked about what are we gonna do because we know every summer we see a spike in crime so what is our plan and how are we gonna work with our neighborhoods to try to keep crime down,” said Catrena Bowman with the Community Action Council.

Anyone with information on any of the murders is asked to contact the Lexington Police Department at (859)258-3600 or Bluegrass Crime Stoppers at (859)253-2020.

The weapon in a recent Lexington robbery caused great discomfort to a bank teller, and Lexington police are urgently investigating all possible leads in the case where a stun gun was used in a bank heist.

The robbery took place May 29th at the Chase Bank on Richmond Road. But so far, Lexington police say the investigation has turned up no leads whatsoever.

“When somebody brings a weapon in and in this case a stun gun and uses it on a clerk or teller,”says Detective Mark Thomas, “that’s stepping it up to a different level.”

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That morning, the man walked in, jumped over the teller door and went straight to the first clerk he saw. He demanded money from her drawer and the one next to it.

“It took her a second,” Thomas says. “She was hesitant and she was afraid of what was going on and because she hesitated, this man used a stun gun on her multiple times in the back.”

Witnesses say he was about 6 feet 1 and 180 pounds. The dreads he was wearing could have been a wig. And if not, they may be gone by now, shaved off to hide his link to the case.

Information leading to the man’s arrest could lead to a cash award from Crime Stoppers. Call their tip line at 859.253.2020.

A Frankfort healthcare worker pleaded guilty to charges of sodomy and sexual abuse in court Tuesday.

23-year-old Damon J. Heath of Frankfort entered a guilty plea in Franklin Circuit Court. As part of the plea agreement, Heath will agree to serve 15 years in prison. Heath is scheduled to be sentenced on July 24, at 2:00 p.m. in Franklin Circuit Court.

Damon Heath worked as a caregiver at Community Choices Unlimited, an organization that cares for intellectually disabled adults. Heath admitted to investigators that he engaged in sexual conduct with two victims on multiple occasions at various locations in Franklin County from April 2013 until January 2015.

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Four other employees of Community Choices Unlimited charged with felony wanton neglect and misdemeanor failure to report abuse.

Louis Dewayne Milligan, Randy Ricardo Driver, Tammy D. Humphrey, and Toshia J. Redding are scheduled to be arraigned in Franklin Circuit Court on June 19, at 9 a.m.

First-degree sexual abuse and third-degree sodomy are Class D felonies.