The man wanted in connection with the deaths of an Ohio couple is now accused of crime sprees in several states including Kentucky.

Police are searching for Robert Clark. The story began nearly two weeks ago when 88-year-old Doyle Chumney and his 79-year-old wife Lillian were reported missing in Ohio. The next the couple was found dead in their car which has been set on fire.

One man, Jeffery Stewart, has been charged in the murder but Clark remains at large and police say he has been committing robberies. He was caught on camera committing robberies with two other suspects in Virginia, West Virginia, The Carolinas, Georgia and Kentucky.

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“They held the clerks at gunpoint. One of them had a shotgun. It appears to be a sawed off shotgun, and another one had a semi-automatic firearm. They held the store up and got away with approximately 8500 dollars worth of cash and merchandise,” says Greg Long, describing the Kentucky robbery.

Investigators have not said where in Kentucky the crime or crimes took place. They do say that Clark and the other two suspects are believed to be in a Dodge mini-van.

They are considered armed and dangerous.

Nine suspects were arrested for personal injury protection (PIP) fraud in Miami, Fla., according to an announcement by Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater. Charged in eight separate cases involving seven staged accidents, these individuals were arrested and charged for their involvement in the filing of more than $242,000 in fraudulent billings submitted to 11 insurance carries.

“While their injuries may have been fake, PIP fraud is real and it is not a victimless crime,” said CFO Atwater. “When insurance carriers absorb such high-dollar losses to fraud, we all pay in the form of higher insurance premiums. I’m thankful to our dedicated investigative team for shutting down this fraud ring.”

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Most PIP fraud rings involve several components that are each monetarily driven – the organizer, who recruits and arranges for individuals to stage, or intentionally cause, motor vehicle accidents; the patient broker, who convinces the participants to seek post-accident medical treatments for non-existent injuries; and sometimes licensed medical providers, who agree to sign off on falsified medical treatment documents in exchange for payments billed under the participants’ personal injury protection benefits as part of their automobile insurance policies. The Division of Insurance Fraud arrested these nine individuals for acting in one or more of these capacities.

Participants in these staged accidents were referred to at least 13 different South Florida medical clinics. This case remains ongoing and additional arrests are expected.

A Bowling Green teenager was expected to be arraigned this morning on charges he sexually abused a 6-year-old boy.

Christopher Ashcraft, 18, was to make his first appearance in Warren Circuit Court to enter a plea to two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and one count of first-degree sodomy.

A Warren County grand jury indicted Ashcraft last week.

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The indictment accuses Ashcraft of subjecting the juvenile to sexual contact on two occasions between Nov. 2 and Dec. 2 and engaging in deviant sexual intercourse with a child younger than 12 years of age once during the same time period.

Bowling Green Police arrested Ashcraft on Dec. 4. Police records describe Ashcraft as a highly functioning mentally challenged man who lives in the care of someone who reported the allegations.

According to a city police report, Ashcraft had been looking at child pornography on a telephone that belongs to his caregiver.

The parents of a child who visited the house where Ashcraft lives told his caregiver Ashcraft inappropriately touched their child.

Police spoke with Ashcraft while his caregiver was present, and Ashcraft claimed not to know anything about the child mentioned and asked his caregiver to leave the room.

According to police records, Ashcraft told police about another child who comes to visit the home, saying that he touched the boy inappropriately and attempted to perform a sex act with the child.

Ashcraft told police he didn’t think what happened was a big deal but agreed he needed help, according to a police report.

When police interviewed the child’s mother, she did not know about the allegations but said her son had made excuses not to go to Ashcraft’s home, police records show.

Warren Circuit Judge John Grise set Ashcraft’s bond at $25,000 cash.

A Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) trooper stopped and arrested two individuals Thursday after the discovery of 393 fraudulent pre-paid gift/debit cards.

At approximately 8:34 a.m., a DPS trooper stopped a 2015 Jeep Cherokee for a traffic violation on US 287 near Electra in Wichita County. During the traffic stop, the trooper observed indicators that led him to believe that the occupants were engaged in illegal activities.

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A search of the vehicle revealed 140 pre-paid gift/debit cards valued at over $9000. The trooper also discovered 253 pre-paid/debit cards which are believed to contain personal information of at least 50 identity theft victims. Approximately four grams of hashish was also found in the vehicle.

The driver Tarlaura Dansby and the passenger Gregory Hubbard were both arrested and booked into the Wichita County jail. Both Dansby and Hubbard were charged with money laundering, fraud use/possess identifying information and possession of a controlled substance.

Four men remain at large after a home invasion in Knott County Thursday.

Troopers were called to a residence at Jamestown Village, in a mobile home community on the Knott and Perry County line, off of Highway 80. Troopers were dispatched in response to a call of a robbery in progress at the residence. The victims told officers that four male suspects forcibly entered the home, assaulted her with a firearm and then handcuffed her to a man in the home.

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The perpetrators had fled the scene prior to officers arriving.

The intruders took a jacket, cell phone, and set of car keys before fleeing the residence in a light colored passenger car, possibly a Toyota or Honda.

It is unknown who these subject were or where they fled to. One victim received a minor injury to her eye, but neither she nor the male were seriously injured.

A former Detroit police officer has been sentenced to serve up to 20 years in prison for using false police reports to improve people’s credit scores.

Tamboura Kenyatta Jackson, 41, of Clinton Township was convicted last month of felony racketeering, forgery and bribery charges, Attorney General Bill Schuette said Friday.

Wayne County Circuit Judge Mark T. Slavens sentenced Jackson on Friday after a jury convicted him Dec. 23. He was to immediately serve 2¹/₂ to 20 years in prison for racketeering, 11 months to 10 years for the public officer accepting bribes and 11 months to 14 years for forgery. The sentences will be served concurrently.

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“Public officers who abuse the public’s trust for personal gain greatly undermine the integrity of law enforcement,” Schuette said. “Confidence in public safety is vital in Michigan’s turnaround.”

A co-defendant, Lisa Curtis, 35, of Macomb Township pleaded guilty in October to bribing Jackson and testified against him, officials said. Slavens sentenced her to two years of probation.

In 2009, Curtis told dozens of her clients she could improve their credit scores through her Waterford-based company, Bright Star Consulting, LLC, according to Schuette. She charged clients a fee between $200 and $1,000.

Without clients’ knowledge Curtis fabricated identity theft stories and provided Jackson with client information. Jackson then submitted false police reports to Experian, a national credit reporting agency, requesting the incidents of “identity theft” be removed from credit histories. Curtis paid Jackson $50 to $200 in bribes for the false police reports.

Jackson also used the scam to improve his own credit score by creating a false police report signed by another officer, without the officer’s knowledge, Schuette said. He had Curtis submit the claim to the credit reporting agency.

The Detroit Police Department suspended Jackson without pay after Schuette filed charges against him. He later resigned from the department.

“This department does not and will not tolerate such egregious acts by our members,” Detroit Police Chief James Craig said in a statement Friday. “I would like to emphasize that the actions of this employee are not conducive to the vast majority of officers who serve the citizens of this city with the utmost level of integrity and dedication.”

The LeFlore County Sheriff’s Office has issued a missing person’s request after a nursing student failed to make it home to McAlester.

Callie Morris, 21, was last heard from at 5 p.m. Thursday when she was leaving Hot Springs, according to THV11, the CBS affiliate in Little Rock.

Authorities say Morris was driving a 2004 tan Ford Explorer with Oklahoma license plate 908HTG. She was expected to take a route through Mena, Arkansas.

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Her last cell phone ping was around 6:37 p.m. in Whitesboro, Oklahoma, in a hilly and mountainous region. The LeFlore County Sheriff’s Office, Oklahoma Highway Patrol and Civil Air Patrol have been searching the area.

Major Rick Rutledge from the Broken Arrow Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol told News On 6 they are engaged in the search.

According to Rutledge, the Civil Air Patrol received new information that will take the focus to Big Cedar on Sunday morning.

Anyone with information about Callie Morris is asked to call the LeFlore County Sheriff at 918-647-3426.