A St. Charles man will spend the rest of his life in prison for sexually abusing a child younger than 14.

William Wilburn was convicted of three counts of statutory sodomy, one count of statutory rape  and one count of distribution of a controlled substance to a minor.

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Prosecutors say Wilburn  made  contact with the child through a telephone chat service and brought the child to his home. He was already a registered sex offender because of a 2007 statutory rape and sodomy conviction in St. Francois county.

Susan Sandusky Martin has been reported missing by her family, after not having contact with her. She also did not pick up her child from school.

Martin is a white female, 6 feet tall, 230 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair.

She was last seen wearing black capri style exercise pants, purple tennis shoes, and a light hooded purple pullover. She is believed to be driving a 1996 red Chevrolet Monte Carlo with the license plate number A9448B.

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Martin left Leoma, Tennessee and may be headed to Wal-Mart in Lawrenceburg or Pulaski.

If you have any information, please call investigators at 931-762-3626 or the Lawrence Central Dispatch at 931-762-0450.

A 51-year-old Fort Lee man has been charged with sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child after he had engaged in sexual activity with a 14-year-old girl, authorities said Wednesday.

Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said Joey C. Lopez was arrested Tuesday after an investigation by Fort Lee police and detectives from the prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit.

The investigation started when a relative of the victim told police in Fort Lee what had happened, and police referred the case to the prosecutor’s office, Molinelli said, adding that detectives from both agencies interviewed the girl and she described to them in greater detail what had occurred.

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Lopez was charged with one count each of sexual assault, aggravated sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child. He initially was being held in the Bergen County jail in lieu of $350,000 bail.

A judge sentenced a Virginia Beach man to spend 26 years in prison for sexually abusing a child in 2012.

According to the Commonwealth’s Attorney, 67-year-old Kenneth Merchant sexually abused a child on multiple occasions and and took photos of the abuse.

Nude photographs of the victim were found in Merchant’s dresser drawer. While he was in jail awaiting trial, Merchant admitted to molesting and photographing the young victim.

After Merchant’s arrest in 2013, investigators also received photographs that had been in a storage unit belonging to Merchant. The Commonwealth’s Attorney says there were dozens of images of child pornography that appeared to have been downloaded from the internet.

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Merchant pleaded guilty on February 5, 2014. He has a prior conviction for aggravated sexual battery from 1987.

A traffic stop and a dog with a sensitive nose led to the indictment of a Sacramento man on drug charges.

A federal grand jury in Fresno on Thursday returned a one-count indictment against Wenceslao Cruz Ochoa, 34, charging him with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office news release.

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Court documents indicate that Ochoa was stopped Nov. 13 by a Fresno County sheriff’s deputy for a moving violation on Interstate 5. A dog trained in the detection of controlled substances alerted the deputy to the presence of drugs, which prompted a search of the vehicle. Approximately 19 pounds of methamphetamine was located inside a suitcase, authorities said.

Still no identification, but the plot is thickening in the case of a man who’s posing as a Time Warner employee and cashing bad checks.

Lexington police have a case on the unidentified suspect that dates back to 2012. And after a little digging, LEX 18 Crime Stoppers reporter Kristen Pflum found a case out of Florence from 2012 that shows the same man was posing as a Cincinnati Bell employee.

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So for two years, this suspect has been cashing in on his scam.

But the question remains – who is he?

LEX 18 has been reporting on the unidentified man since Wednesday when Versailles and Richmond police released his photo. On Thursday, more reports come out of Powell and Casey counties.

Around central Kentucky, the man wears a Time Warner cable polo shirt and ID badge each time he cashes a check with a Time Warner emblem on it. And every time he succeeds, it’s 367.54 in his pocket.

His photo has circulated and been shared several times from the LEX 18 Facebook page, but no tips have come in, which leads police to believe he’s not from around the area.

A second man was arrested in connection to a robbery at a Lexington game shop for which police also arrested a man in the Winburn area Thursday afternoon after a brief standoff.

19-old Cardreus Winter was arrested in connection to two robberies at the Game Stop in the North Park shopping center featured on LEX 18 Crime Stoppers.

Police say Winter and 18-year-old Duquion Baxter robbed the store in September and, according to Winter’s arrest citation, he went back to rob the same store alone in November.

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Baxter was arrested a few minutes before Winter on Thursday after a brief standoff in the Winburn neighborhood across the street from Winburn Middle.

Police say they arrived at an apartment complex to serve a warrant on Baxter, who refused to get out. A negotiator and a special unit were brought out to the scene.

The nearby schools were put on high alert and neighbors were asked to stay inside their homes, while others couldn’t drive into the neighborhood since Winburn Drive was blocked coming from Russell Cave Road.

Baxter was arrested about 30 minutes later.

On Baxter’s warrant, he is accused of shooting his brother in the hand in early November.

Baxter’s charged with first degree robbery and second degree assault.

Both men are set to appear in court on their charges later Friday.

Hurst police say they have arrested two people — a 17-year-old who posed as a sixth-grader at an elementary school and a man who posed as his father — after seizing evidence of child pornography from a Fort Worth home earlier this week.

In a news release, Hurst police said they raided the home in the 2100 block of David Drive based on a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

During the raid Tuesday, police seized a “large amount” of evidence of child pornography and exploitation of children, police said.

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Sgt. Craig Teague said the evidence led police to arrest Ricardo Lugo, 17, and Randy Ray Wesson, 28. The two are not related, but evidence from the home links them together, Teague said.

Wesson was home when police arrived to execute a search warrant. He was arrested and charged with possession with the intent to promote child pornography, sale or display of harmful material and tampering with government record. His bail was set at $3 million.

Lugo was at Hurst Hills Elementary, where he was enrolled as a sixth grader, at the time of the raid.

Child Protective Services removed him from the school because authorities initially thought he was 12 years old.

But they soon learned Lugo had used counterfeit documents to gain enrollment at the school.

In an email, Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD spokeswoman Judy Ramos said that the school followed the usual procedures when Lugo enrolled in August.

“There was no indication that the student’s records were forged or that the student was too old to attend elementary school,” she said. “The student’s behavior at school also did not raise any concerns.”

Ramos said Lugo was not arrested at the school.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Department of Public Safety helped Hurst police identify Lugo, who was listed in their records as a missing person from Mexico, Teague said.

Lugo was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography. His bail was set at $250,000.

Teague said detectives are trying to figure out why Lugo lied about his age. They are also working with school officials to determine if students from Hurst Hills Elementary were victimized, Teague said.

“This is like running in wildfire right now, as far as the information we have received,” he said. “It all takes time to process and analyze.”

Detectives believe there may be other victims in this case. Police are asking anyone with information about the case — or a possible leads — call 817-788-7146.