A 14-month-old boy who went missing in Columbus, Ohio, last week was found dead in a creek Wednesday morning.

The boy’s mother, Dainesha Stevens, of Maryland, is being held on $150,000 bond in Columbus on charges of endangering her children and tampering with evidence. She could face additional charges now that her son’s body has been found.

Stevens called Columbus police Monday and said her 6-year-old daughter was missing, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

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Stevens told police she was visiting a friend in town and that her daughter disappeared Christmas Eve after Stevens left her with an acquaintance.

She did not mention her son, Cameron Beckford, until police met with her and questioned her story. She initially said she abandoned the toddler on a stranger’s porch because she was unable to care for him. Police say they suspect that story might have been a lie to cover up a possible homicide.

A dive crew found Cameron’s body in Big Walnut Creek.

Officers found Stevens’ daughter an hour after the woman first met with the police. The girl is now in the custody of Franklin County Children Services.

Court records say several days before Cameron disappeared, Stevens allowed an unidentified person to spank the little boy so harshly that the person “caused layers of skin to be removed from the child’s buttocks.”

The friend with whom Stevens stayed in Columbus, Kurt Flood, is being held on an unrelated misdemeanor charge and probation violation.

Stevens appeared in court

Carolina Beach Police are looking for two suspects involved in a robbery and fraud investigation.

Police say an incident involving the pair happened on December 14 at the intersection of S. Lake Park Blvd. and Charlotte Avenue. Police say the two suspects could be operating a single cab blue pickup truck seen in this photo.

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Anyone with any information is asked to please contact the Carolina Beach Police Department at 910-458-2540.

An Amber Alert for a 14-month-old Houston boy was cancelled after he was found safe in Arkansas, police said Tuesday.

The person of interest in the case, his father, was found dead nearby from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to police.

Houston police said Tyemetheus Pack was reported missing early Tuesday morning after his mom was found dead at their northwest side apartment. Early on, police named Tumetheus Levastavian Pack, the boy’s father, a person of interest in the case.

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Authorities asked the public to look out for Pack, who was said to possibly be in a green Suburban with Arkansas plates.

Apartment on Pinemont where a Houston mother was found.

Several hours after the Amber Alert was issued, Tumetheus Pack was found dead in a vehicle in Prescott, Arkansas. Authorities there said the 14-month-old boy was in the vehicle along with two other kids. Their relationships, if any, were not immediately known.

Tuesday’s manhunt started when authorities found the young boy’s mother, Angel Jackson, dead. Jackson was last heard from on Christmas Eve when she reportedly sent someone a text saying she had been shot. A maintenance man called Houston police to her apartment on Pinemont overnight for a welfare check.

Police have not confirmed how the mother died.

The child is currently the care of Child Protective Services.

A Madison Co. man is in jail, accused of following a woman down a Richmond Street and raping her.

The alleged incident happened on Fairview Street in Richmond at 5 a.m. Sunday morning, but the woman told police it initially started on Main Street near the YMCA.

The victim told police she was walking home down Main Street when Thomas Simmons tried making conversation. She said he then allegedly grabbed her by her hair, punched her and dragged her behind some apartments on Fairview Street. She says he then forced her to have sexual intercourse.

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The police report says after the crime, Simmons simply walked away and left her alone in the rear of the apartment. Neighbors in the apartment complex told LEX 18 they hadn’t hear a thing about it until they saw it on the news.

Richmond Police arrested the 48-year-old Simmons at his house. Simmons allegedly told police the encounter happened at his home and that it was consensual.

Detectives on Saturday arrested a registered sex offender while he was allegedly downloading child pornography at a Hillsboro Starbucks, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said.

The lead detective in the case arrested Robert Dietz, 59, for similar crimes in 2009, according to Sgt. Vance Stimler.

Detectives arrested Dietz at the Starbucks located at 1st Avenue and Main Street while he allegedly tried to download child porn using free Wi-Fi, Stimler said.

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Dietz was jailed on two counts of encouraging child sex abuse.

Detectives began surveillance at the Starbucks location and identified Dietz as the suspect after receiving several leads in the case, Stimler said

Police in Marietta are looking for man they say raped a teen earlier this month. Richard Dewayne Waugh, 21, is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl about two weeks ago.

It happened in the 300 block of North 3rd St. in Marietta. Police lost Waugh following a short pursuit on Saturday. They later arrested his girlfriend for child neglect and harboring a fugitive.

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Waugh is listed as 5’6”, 150 lbs. with brown hair and brown eyes. If you know where he is, you’re urged to call the Marietta police department.

Lexington police say they have arrested a man wanted in a double stabbing at an apartment Sunday night.

An arrest was issued for his arrest on Monday and he was arrested overnight in Clark County.

Officers say they found the two victims suffering from multiple stab wounds. They told investigators they were stabbed by Adams.

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According to the victims, all three were inside the home when a disagreement happened and Adams was asked to leave the apartment. He then stabbed both the man and the woman before running off on foot.

Both victims were transported to University of Kentucky Hospital. Their condition is unknown.

Adams is being held in the Clark County jail.

A man has died after crashing Tuesday morning in Letcher County.

The Letcher County coroner says 42-year-old Kevin Stamper crossed the center line and hit an oncoming pickup truck. He died at the scene.

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Three people from the pickup were transported to the hospital. No word on their condition.

It happened just before 6 a.m. on US 119 near Jenkins.