A murder investigation is underway in Western Kentucky after a body is found in a home.

Kentucky State Police say troopers were responding to a burglary in progress call around midnight Saturday morning. When troopers arrived they found a man’s body on the floor of the home.  Detectives are still investigating.

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An autopsy is scheduled for Sunday.

An alleged Pulaski County bank robber is now behind bars.

34-year-old Larry Greenleaf is accused of holding up the First and Farmers Bank in Burnside on January 7th. According to investigators, Greenleaf was armed during the robbery. A nearby elementary school was put on lock down while police secured the scene.

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Greenleaf was arrested at a Kroger Saturday after Somerset Police say he pushed a shopping cart outside without paying for the items.

Greenleaf now faces several charges.

Lt. Chris Ameling says that investigators with the department located the body near a power line approximately 2 miles east of the corner of Border Lane in Southern Pulaski County.

While investigating his disappearance, two suspects, Ted Warner and Clifton King were arrested for kidnapping Mr. McCann. Police say Warner told them a third suspect, Hiram Contreres, helped with the murder.

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According to officials, Warner admitted to kidnapping and shooting McCann. Warner states in a report, that he and Contreres walked McCann deep into the woods. King admits to using tape to cover McCann’s mouth and bind his hands. Then, Warner reportedly shot McCann in the back with a 12 gauge shotgun.

Officials announced that Ted Warner is facing Capital Murder charges.

His death investigation is still an ongoing investigation.

Las Vegas police are seeking the public’s help in finding a man who has several medical issues and may be under severe emotional distress.

James Shelton, 65, was last seen about noon Thursday near Washington Avenue and Decatur Boulevard. Police did not disclose his medical issues.

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He is described as 6 feet tall and 190 pounds with blue eyes and gray hair.

Anyone with information on Shelton’s whereabouts is asked to contact Metro’s missing person detail at 702-828-2907.

Several police agencies are investigating the disappearance of a Spencer County teenager.

13-year-old Ashlyn F. Propheter was last seen Friday afternoon around 3:45 p.m. at her home in the Taylorsville area.

Propheter is a white female, 5’4″, 125 lbs, with brown hair and blue eyes.  She was last seen wearing blue jeans and tee shirt.

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Anyone with information concerning the whereabouts of Propheter is asked to contact Kentucky State Police at (502) 227-2221 or Officer Daniel Wills at Taylorsville Police Department (502) 477-3231.

Few details have been released in a Western Kentucky murder investigation.

Around midnight Saturday, State Police responded to a report of a burglary at a home on Fairmont Avenue in Henderson County. Inside that home, troopers found a man dead on the home’s floor.

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No one else was home.

The victim’s name has not been released.

An arrest has been made in the shooting investigation in Barren County.

The Barren County Sheriff’s Office has been looking into two shooting that occurred Sunday night.  The first was around 6:00 pm on the 1500 block of Beckton Road.  A family was eating dinner in their home when they heard a noise upstairs.  Police found a bullet in the home and their investigation shows someone shot at the house from the street.  Later that night at around 10:30 a second shooting happened in the 5000 block of Dripping Springs Rd.  Police say a car pulled into a driveway and fired three shots into a pickup truck.  As the suspects drove away they also shot into a house.  Police found a bullet in a headboard that just missed a sleeping child.  No injuries occurred in the shootings.

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An arrest was made in reference to the drive by shooting that occurred on Dripping Springs Road.  During the investigation, the Barren County Sheriff’s Office obtained an arrest warrant for Jason D. Fields, 38, of Glasgow.  Fields was arrested at his home Saturday and is currently at the Barren County Correctional Center.  He is charged with four counts of wanton endangerment 1st Degree and tampering with physical evidence. The investigation is ongoing and further charges may be filed.

The shootings on Beckton Road are still being investigated.  If you have any information you are asked to call the sheriff’s office tip line at (270) 646-8771.

Two missing Kentucky teenagers suspected of a crime spree across the South have been spotted in Florida, where they were seen panhandling, police told NBC News on Friday.

Grayson County, Georgia, Sheriff Norman Chaffins said 18-year-old Dalton Hayes and his 13-year-old girlfriend Cheyenne Phillips, may be staying in camps or homeless shelters and could have the weapons that were in one of the vehicles they allegedly stole.

The pair were reported missing Jan. 3. They’re accused of stealing a neighbor’s red Toyota pickup, then ditching it in Georgia for a stolen a silver Toyota Tundra that had .45- and .38-caliber handguns in the back seat. Both are wanted in at least the two auto thefts, and Hayes is also wanted on charges of custodial interference for luring Cheyenne away from home.

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Hayes’ mother, Tammy Martin, told reporters that her son had just recently started dating Cheyenne, who she didn’t know was only 13.

She said Hayes texted her on Jan. 6 to say, “Mommy, don’t worry. I’m fine, okay — plenty of money and food. Love you, good night, sweet dreams.”

Today, a federal jury convicted a California man of running a bogus oil production enterprise in Kentucky that defrauded investors, nationwide, out of millions of dollars.

The jury convicted John G. Westine, Jr., 69, for 26 counts of mail fraud and one count each of conspiracy to launder funds and securities fraud. Westine was acquitted on one mail fraud count. The jury reached its verdict after six and a half hours of deliberations, following nine days of trial.

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According to testimony at trial, Westine and others lured money from investors by making false statements regarding an oil production business. The false statements led investors to believe that oil was being produced, when in fact it was not, and led them to believe that the oil companies had been in the oil production business for decades, when in reality they had only been in existence for less than a year.

Additionally, evidence at trial established that Westine had concealed from investors that he had served more than 22 years in federal prison, for a 1992 conviction for a similar fraud scheme in Ohio, and that he was on parole.

According to voluminous testimony and documents presented by prosecutors, Westine and others used aliases and fictitious company names to conceal their true identity from investors and authorities. In total, Westine and others defrauded approximately 200 investors out of more than $3,000,000.

Westine’s co-defendant and half-brother, Michael Hicks, pleaded guilty to similar charges and testified for the government at trial.

The investigation started when investors submitted complaints to the Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions, Division of Securities.

Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Dugan Wong, Inspector in Charge of the U. S. Postal Inspection Service; and Charles Vice, Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions, jointly announced the verdict.

The investigation was conducted by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Kentucky Department of Financial Institutions.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Ken Taylor and Neeraj Gupta are prosecuting this case on behalf of the federal government.

Westine faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years on each mail fraud count and 20 years for both the securities fraud and money laundering offenses. Under federal law, Westine will have to serve at least 85 percent of his prison sentence. The Court will impose a sentence after carefully considering the U.S Sentencing Guidelines and the federal statutes.

A Laurel County man has been arrested and charged with possession and distribution of child pornography.

Paul A. Geiger, 50, was arrested as the result of an undercover Internet Crimes Against Children investigation.

The KSP Crime Branch began the investigation after discovering the suspect sharing images of child sexual exploitation online. A search warrant was executed at Geiger’s residence.

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The investigation is ongoing.

Geiger is currently charged with three counts of possession and five counts of distribution of matter portraying a sex performance by a minor. He was lodged in the Laurel County Detention Center.