A Boone County man has been arrested and charged with incest and sexual abuse of his niece.

36-year-old Armondo Ramirez-Herrera was taken into custody after his niece reported the incident to an adult Friday morning.

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Ramirez-Herrera was charged with sexual abuse, sodomy of a child under 12 years of age and incest.

Both sodomy and incest are class A felonies and sexual abuse is a Class C felony.

A Bowling Green man has been arrested in connection with an Amber Alert issued in western Kentucky on Thursday.

The alert was issued for a 5-year-old child. Bowling Green Police say that the child’s mother was arguing with Rique R. Griffin when he allegedly assaulted the mother and drove off with the child in the mother’s vehicle.

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The child was found safe. Griffin has been charged with kidnapping and fourth degree assault.

The mother was treated for minor injuries and was released.

During the investigation police spoke to the man via telephone and made arrangements for the child to be brought to the police station by a friend. The child was returned unharmed and the Amber Alert was promptly canceled.

Lexington police have made an arrest in the shooting death of a University of Kentucky student.

Police have charged 18-year-old Justin D. Smith with murder in connection with the shooting of 22-year-old Jonathan W. Krueger near UK’s campus.

Police say they responded to a shots fired call along the 400 block of East Maxwell Street, near Transylvania Park, just after 2 a.m. When officers arrived, they found Krueger in the street suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.Police are currently looking for other individuals involving the murder of Mr. Krueger.

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Smith was also charged with robbery, tampering with physical evidence and fleeing and evading.“We’ve updated the family on our investigation and our thoughts and prayers are with them,” said Police Chief Mark Barnard, who talked to Krueger’s father this morning.

Krueger, a University of Kentucky student, was walking with another person on East Maxwell near Transylvania Park when the shooting occurred during a robbery.

Officers were called to the scene at 2:07 a.m. and found the victim lying in the street. He was transported to UK Chandler Hospital and pronounced dead by the coroner at 2:35 a.m.

Police say this appears to be a completely random act of violence.

A Jackson County judge Tuesday sentenced a Central Point man to 60 months in prison for trying to lure a teenage boy for sex over the Internet last spring.

Prosecutors had asked for a 45-month sentence as part of Mark Ray Doty’s plea agreement, but Judge Kelly Ravassipour cited Doty’s criminal history in increasing the sentence. In return for pleading guilty to charges of luring a minor, first-degree online sexual corruption of a minor and two counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the second degree, prosecutors dismissed additional charges of use of a child in a sexually explicit display, online sexual corruption and delivery of marijuana to a minor.

Medford police arrested Doty and Cameron James Lauckner, 20, in February 2014 after the parents of the 16-year-old victim filed a report. Police say the boy had met the two men over the “casual encounters” section of Craigslist and that they had persuaded him to send them pictures and videos via cellphone. They eventually arranged to meet the victim in the parking lot of a local business, police said, but the boy feared for his safety and left, telling his parents what had happened.

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Doty, now 42, was convicted in 2007 of 12 counts of encouraging child sex abuse after police found child pornography in his parents’ Central Point home.

“I don’t see this as a serious error — I see this as repetitive behavior,” Ravassipour told Doty, referring to his previous convictions. “It’s very disturbing.”

Lauckner pleaded guilty in May 2014 to charges of luring a minor and second-degree online sexual corruption of a child, and was sentenced to three years’ probation.

A woman first reported missing Tuesday night in Northern Kentucky was found in Roselawn Thursday afternoon, according to Newport police.

Mollie Sheridan, 34, was reported missing around 10 p.m. Tuesday in Northern Kentucky.

Sheridan was found by a Cincinnati police officer at a Marathon gas station in Roselawn near the intersection of Summit and Reading roads, police said.

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Officers at the scene reported they were having trouble communicating with Sheridan due to a “language barrier,” according to Cincinnati police.

Police do not believe that Sheridan had a phone, wallet or her ID on her person when she went missing.

She graduated with a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Cincinnati and currently works at Nordstrom as a sales associate, according to her LinkedIn page.

Anyone is with more information regarding Sheridan has been asked to contact Newport Police Cpl. Larry Long at 859-292-3622.

No further information was immediately available.

It’s been more than three days with no trace of 22-year-old Alma Del Real, who was last seen at a South Bend club early Sunday morning.

Police say she was dropped off by a friend at her home on Ewing Ave. around 3:30 a.m., after leaving Studio Rumba 305 in South Bend.

“That’s it. She vanished after that,” said Capt. Phil Trent of the South Bend Police Dept. “She hasn’t contacted anybody, hasn’t been on social media, hasn’t been sighted.”

The story of the disappearance of the Clay High School graduate has generated a buzz on social media, but Del Real’s loved ones are asking that the information make its way to police.

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“What’s evolved is we’re hearing from close friends who are having discussions via social media,” Trent said. “In some of those discussion there’s some concrete facts that are being pushed out there that we weren’t aware of.”

Trent is asking that those with credible information share it first with police in order to help locate Del Real.

“That has been a problem apparently,” said Del Real’s aunt, Susana Laguna. “People are talking to each other but not coming forward.”

According to her family, Del Real works as a cashier at Wells Fargo and works side jobs as a make-up artist. When she did not report for work Monday morning, they knew something was wrong.

“She’s the type of person that would not miss work unless she was very ill,” Laguna said. “She is not the type of person that would just run away or go away without telling the family.”

Police attempted to locate Del Real’s phone through cell towers. They received some information from those pings but the phone has been dead or turned off since later in the day on Sunday.

Del Real’s family says that is also a red flag, because she tends to constantly be checking in through texts, calls or social media.

“She was connected most of the time,” Laguna said. “When she was not working she was connected so we knew where she was. We knew what she was doing.”

Those with information are asked to call the South Bend Police Department at 574-235-9201. Anyone who believes they have spotted Del Real is asked to call 9-11.

Her friends and family are praying for Del Real’s safe return, but Laguna said she fears the worst.

“We’re hoping that she’s alive and that she will come home and we are very scared that the opposite is true — that she’s dead somewhere and we don’t know where,” Laguna told NewsCenter16.

At the time she was missing, Del Real was wearing light blue, skinny, ripped, high-waisted pants, a black crop top, and a tan, leather jacket.
She is 5’5, 137 lbs., has black hair and brown eyes.

 

A Clark County judge handed down a 10-year-sentence for a woman who entered a guilty plea to a bank robbery.

Police say that Samantha Rice helped rob the Community Trust Bank in Winchester in 2002.

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Rice wasn’t arrested for the crime until 2014 after someone tipped off deputies in Powell County. Investigators say that Rice along with John Richard Case went into the bank.

Case showed a gun to the cashier and then stuffed the stolen money into Rice’s purse.