A federal grand jury has indicted a Youngstown man, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office statement released Thursday, charging that he stole someone’s identity.

The jury charged that Ricardo Garcia-Baltazar, aka Richard Molina, 37, of Youngstown, faked U.S. citizenship and stole someone’s identification between Jan. 17 and March 8.

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The investigation preceding the indictment was conducted by the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations. The matter is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jason M. Katz.

A Clare County, Michigan couple have been arrested on multiple child sex crime charges.

Jason Shannon, 41, and Crystal Little, 32, have been charged with multiple counts including Criminal Sexual Conduct, Child Sexually Abusive Activities, and Providing Sexually Explicit Material to a Minor.

Michigan State Police say that they learned in January that Shannon may have been trading Child Sexually Explicit Materials with another man in Kansas. Investigation by Homeland Security and Wichita Police led them to Shannon, who was a registered sex offender in Michigan.

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Investigators in Michigan executed a search warrant and seized computers and equipment from Shannon’s home in Sheridan Township. They found that Little, Shannon’s companion, may have also sexually assaulted a child. Both reportedly confessed to the crimes.

Shannon is being held on $1 million bond. Little is being held on $100,000 bond. They remain in the Clare County Jail

A 64-year-old Franklin man pleaded guilty Tuesday to sexual battery and gross sexual imposition involving a child.

According to Warren County Prosecutor David Fornshell, Paul Byrd of Franklin was sentenced to 12 years in prison after reportedly having sexual contact with a child under the age of 13, beginning in December 2013.

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Fornshell said Byrd was arrested three days after the investigation began. He was reportedly found laying in a wooded area near Franklin High School with a .380 handgun. He was arrested without incident.

Byrd will be required to register as a Tier III sex offender when he is released from prison. He must register every 90 days for life.

The Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office continues to actively work a missing person’s report related to the disappearance last September of Christopher “Topher” Bernards of Amity.

The 34-year-old Bernards, reported missing by his roommate, was last seen at his residence on Sept. 4 about 3 p.m.

The last confirmed sighting of Bernards was in Tumwater, Washington on September 7, when he purchased gift cards at an Albertson’s grocery store.

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The following day, Bernards’ vehicle, a silver Dodge Neon bearing Oregon license plate 704CQM, was seen by construction crews on Interstate 5, near milepost 164, outside Cottage Grove. Construction workers noticed a single male occupant sleeping in the vehicle.

At mid-morning that same day, that male was seen walking northbound from the vehicle. The male was wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt, sunglasses and a baseball cap. He was last seen at milepost 170 about 1 p.m.

The sheriff’s office Special Investigations Unit believes this disappearance to be suspicious in nature as family members have not seen or heard from Bernards since his initial disappearance.

The sheriff’s office  is asking the public for assistance in locating him. Anyone with any knowledge of his whereabouts is asked to contact Detective Marc Brodeur at 503-434-7506.

A man is being formally charged with shooting and killing another man while the two drove along in separate vehicles on Interstate 71 in Louisville.

According to police sources the suspect Christopher L. McCullum, 43, of Louisville. They say the shooting appears to be a completely random act of road rage and there was no connection between McCullum and his victim.

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Early reports after the shooting said police were looking for a white Ford van. Just after noon they found a van which matched the description.

Witnesses said the driver was dressed in coveralls and was calmly chatting with officers after they got him out of the van. He was taken away in the back of a cruiser.

The van itself sat on the ramp for close to 90 minutes, time enough for a police technician to get there and start going over it to check for evidence.

McCullum is in the process of being arrested. He is expected to be arraigned on Thursday morning.

Sparks police are searching for a 23-year-old missing woman, who disappeared after dropping off her children with her family last year.

Luz “Lucy” Reyes-Galvan was last seen on Oct. 12 dropping her children off at a relative’s home in Sparks, police said in a news release Wednesday morning.

She is 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 160 pounds and is known to frequent motels in the Reno-Sparks area, police said.

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Investigators registered Reyes-Galvan in the National Crime Information Center’s Missing Person File, police said.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Sparks Police Department at 775-353-2225 or Secret Witness at 775-322-4900.

An arrest has been made in the investigation of a shooting on I-71 south in Louisville. Louisville Metro Police have confirmed that one person is dead after being shot in a vehicle on the interstate.

Police were called to I-71 South near the Gene Snyder Freeway, WAVE 3 reports.

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Homicide detectives were called to the reported shooting and the road was closed.

The exit ramp was reopened around 1:50 p.m. South I-71 has also been reopened to traffic.

This is the fourth homicide in Louisville in 13 hours. The name of the suspect has not been released

A former school administrator who was indicted on four counts of sex abuse in early February has been indicted by a grand jury on new charges out of Fayette County.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Larson confirms that William Hyatt has been indicted on two charges of sodomy and one count of sex abuse in Fayette County court.

Hyatt, who is now in his 50s, was previously charged for allegations involving a boy under the age of 12. The boy was involved in Big Brothers Big Sisters from 1979 to 1981 when Hyatt was a volunteer.

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Hyatt had recently retired, but was a school employee in three counties including Harrison, Bracken and Mason counties. Mason County Schools confirmed that Hyatt was a guidance counselor at Jones Elementary from 1998 until 2004. Jones Elementary has since closed.

A Paso Robles teacher accused of multiple sexual acts with a minor in San Luis Obispo and Merced counties is facing up to seven years in prison after entering a guilty plea in court Monday.

In December, Jeremy Monn pleaded not guilty in Merced County to 15 felony charges against him. The District Attorney’s Office there filed the charges against him in November for alleged sexual acts with a minor that police say took place between April and July of 2013.

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According to the complaint, some of the alleged acts took place at Don Pedro High School in Tuolumne County and at an FFA conference in Fresno County.

Monn was arrested on December 12 at his Paso Robles home following a police investigation that began in September, a little more than three months after Monn’s first arrest in San Luis Obispo County.

His June arrest was for an alleged sexual relationship that court documents show took place between March and May of 2014 with a 16-year-old female student at Paso Robles High School where he was an agriculture teacher. He posted bail shortly after that arrest and was released from custody.

In July, the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office charged him with seven felony counts including meeting a minor for lewd purposes, unlawful sexual intercourse and dissuading a witness from reporting a crime. A misdemeanor charge of child molestation was also filed. Monn also pleaded not guilty in that case, which was ongoing at the time of his second arrest.

In Merced County courtroom Monday, officials say Monn pleaded guilty to three of the 15 charges against him there: unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, lewd acts with a 15-year-old, and oral copulation with a minor.

The DA’s Office says the other 12 counts against him were dismissed.

Officials add that as part of his plea deal, Monn must register as a sex offender and will also need to plead guilty to two of the seven charges against him in San Luis Obispo County: unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor and arranging to meet with a minor with the intent to commit sexual acts.

The DA’s Office says if he does not enter that plea, it will be a violation of the plea deal and adds that although 12 charges were dismissed, the judge can still take those into consideration at his sentencing, which is scheduled for April 17.

Monn faces between four and seven years in state prison and will be transferred to San Luis Obispo County to enter his pleas here following his sentencing in April.