Kentucky State Police are looking for two men in connection to a homicide investigation in Clinton County.

Troopers are looking for 38-year-old James D. Polston and 22-year-old Randall L. Wilkinson in connection to the death of 36-year-old Anthony W. Hargism who was found shot to death Monday outside a home on Ida Road.

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Polston is described as a white man, 6’4″ tall, 220 lbs, has brown hair and brown eyes. He was last seen driving a dark blue Chevrolet Colorado with Kentucky plate 9399FE.

Wilkinson is described as a white man, 5’9″ tall, 166 lbs, blue eyes. Wilkinson was last seen with a white woman.

State Police consider the men to be armed and dangerous. Anyone with information can contact State Police at 1-800-222-5555.

A Henderson County, Kentucky man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today, by Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., to 100 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for robbing three banks located in Daviess and Henderson Counties in Kentucky, announced David. J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.

Weston Neel Hurd, age 41, was further ordered to pay $6,660 dollars in restitution to the three banks and ordered to have no contact with the banks for three years following his release from prison. He remains in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service.

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Hurd previously admitted that on August 6, 2012, in Henderson County, Kentucky, he robbed the Ohio Valley Financial Group, located at 400 Barret Boulevard, of approximately $2,651 by force, violence and intimidation. Neel admitted that on October 2, 2012, in Daviess County, Kentucky, he robbed the Kentucky Telco Federal Credit Union, located at 933 Tamarack Road, in Owensboro, of $2,878 by force, violence and intimidation. Neel further admitted that on December 28, 2012, in Daviess County, Kentucky, he robbed the First Security Federal Bank, located at 3560 Frederica Street, in Owensboro, of $1,131 by force, violence and intimidation.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Daniel P. Kinnicutt and was investigate by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Owensboro Police Department and Henderson

Almost five months since a man was gunned down on the street, the suspect is in jail in Lexington.

Jefferey Morris is accused of murder and was picked up earlier this month in Glendale, Arizona, outside of Phoenix, and booked into the Fayette County jail Monday.

The morning of June 11, police say 47-year-old Anthony Carter was shot and killed while on his bicycle near the area of Fifth Street and Chestnut.

Weeks after the murder, investigators pinned Carter’s death on Jefferey Morris, who apparently lived in the area.

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Detectives say Morris had to have known he was wanted because since then, officers say Morris went off the radar, and Lexington police teamed up with U.S. Marshals in the search for him.

In the arrest warrant obtained by LEX 18, it says there were witnesses that confirmed Morris fled the scene after the shots were fired and that he confessed to the killing.

Morris is set to face murder and tampering with physical evidence charges in court soon.

A Nassau County man was sentenced Monday to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to a list of child sex charges for repeatedly molesting at least two children, authorities said.

Jeremiah Donald Potter, 32, pleaded guilty to seven counts of custodial sexual battery, three counts of lewd or lascivious battery and a lone count of possession of child pornography, according to a news release from the State Attorney’s Office for Florida’s Fourth Circuit.

Potter, who was also ordered to undergo lifetime sex offender probation, was labeled a dangerous sexual felony offender as part of his sentence, prosecutors said.

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One of the victims, now 13 years old, came forward in May of 2014 and told her father that Potter had been abusing her, according to the State Attorney’s Office. Investigators found that Potter had allegedly forced the child to perform sexual acts with him several times in 2012.

That victim also identified a second victim, now 11 years old, who told investigators that Potter had abused her from June 2007 through June 2014, prosecutors said.

A youth minister from Washington County, Kansas is behind bars, facing child sex charges. The Washington County Sheriff’s office arrested Jim Bugbee Thursday at his home in Washington.

Bugbee faces one count of sexual exploitation of a child and one count of commercial Sexual Exploitation of a child.

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Authorities told 13 News that Bugbee was a youth minister at the local Christian Church and the case involves one victim.

Washington County officials declined to release further details at this time.

A Knoxville woman is sentenced to 34 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in November 2013 to a federal indictment charging her with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Sherri Michelle Rhodes, 42, used counterfeit checks at retailers in the Knoxville area. She obtained banking information from stolen mail. She used false identification cards with the same name as the account holder, but showed her picture.

The bank account information was processed electronically by Telecheck Services, Inc., in Houston, Texas.

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Upon her release from prison, Rhodes will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office for three years she is also ordered to pay $522.63 in restitution.

The transportation company whose bus driver was arrested and charged with DUI says that their employee was suffering from a medical emergency rather than intoxication.

Police pulled over the bus and arrested 46-year-old Holly Brown for DUI and wanton endangerment second degree. An off-duty Anderson County Sheriff’s deputy called in the charter bus Sunday after seeing the bus traveling down the Bluegrass Parkway in Washington County.

Brown was transporting 41 students and nine adult chaperones from Elliot County on a field trip in Louisiana for a Future Business Leaders of America event.

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Miller Transportation has released a statement on the incident containing the following statement:

“Based on our internal investigation, Miller Transportation believes the driver’s condition Sunday was the result of a personal medical issue which did not involve alcohol or any illegal controlled substance. We also believe there is the possibility the charges may be dropped or lessened once the driver’s lab results are finalized in five-to-six weeks.

The students and chaperones arrived safely home three hours after the arrest.

If the deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

The FBI reminds shoppers in advance of the holiday shopping season to beware of cyber criminals and their aggressive and creative ways to steal money and personal information. Scammers use many techniques to defraud consumers by offering too good to be true deals via phishing e-mails advertising brand name merchandise, quick money making offers, or gift cards as an incentive to purchase a product. Remember, if the deal looks too good to be true, it probably is and never provide your personal information to an unknown party or untrusted website.

Scammers often use e-mail to advertise hot-ticket items of the year that may become hard to find during the holidays to lure unsuspecting consumers to click on links. Steer clear of untrusted sites or ads offering items at unrealistic discounts or with special coupons. You may end up paying for an item, giving away personal information and credit card details, and then receive nothing in return, along with your identity compromised. These sites may also be offering products at a great price, but the products being sold are not the same as the products they advertise. This is known as the bait and switch scam.

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Beware of posts on social media sites that appear to offer vouchers or gift cards, especially sites offering deals too good to be true, such as a free $500 gift card. Some may pose as holiday promotions or contests. It may even appear one of your friends shared the link with you. If so, it is likely your friend was duped by the scam after it was sent to them by one of their friends. Oftentimes, these scams lead to online surveys designed to steal personal information. Remember, if the deal looks too good to be true, it probably is. And never provide your personal information to an unknown party or untrusted website.

When purchasing gift cards online, be leery of auction sites selling discounted or bulk offers of gift cards. When purchasing gift cards in the store, examine the protective scratch off area on the back of the card to see if it has been tampered with.

Be on the lookout for mobile applications designed to steal your personal information from your smartphone. Such apps are often disguised as games and are often offered for free. Research the company selling or giving away the app and look online for third party reviews before installing an app from an unknown source.

Tickets to theater, concerts, and sporting events are always popular gifts during the holidays. If you purchase or receive tickets as a gift, do not post pictures of the tickets to social media sites. Protect the barcodes on tickets as you would your credit card number. Fraudsters will create a ticket using the barcode obtained from searching around social media sites and resell the ticket. You should never allow the barcode to be seen on social media.

If you are in need of extra cash at this time of year, beware of sites and posts offering work you can do from the comfort of your own home. Often, the work from home opportunities rely on convenience as a selling point for applicants with an unscrupulous motivation behind the posting. You should carefully research the job posting and individuals or company contacting you for employment.

As a consumer, if you feel you are a victim of an Internet-related crime, you may file a complaint with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.IC3.gov.

Tips

Here are some additional tips you can use to avoid becoming a victim of cyber fraud:

• Check your credit card statement routinely.
• Protect your credit card numbers from “wandering eyes”.
• Do not respond to unsolicited (spam) e-mail.
• Do not click on links contained within an unsolicited e-mail.
• Be cautious of e-mail claiming to contain pictures in attached files, as the files may contain viruses. Only open attachments from known senders. Scan the attachments for viruses if possible.
• Avoid filling out forms contained in e-mail messages that ask for personal information.
• Always compare the link in the e-mail to the link you are actually directed to and determine if they actually match and lead you to a legitimate site.
• Log on directly to the official website for the business identified in the e-mail, instead of “linking” to it from an unsolicited e-mail. If the e-mail appears to be from your bank, credit card issuer, or other company you deal with frequently, your statements or official correspondence from the business will provide the proper contact information.
• If you are requested to act quickly or there is an emergency, it may be a scam. Fraudsters create a sense of urgency to get you to act quickly.
• Verify any requests for personal information from any business or financial institution by contacting them using the main contact information on their official website.
• Remember if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.