South Salt Lake police are asking for the public’s help in locating two girls reported missing from a youth home.

SSLPD spokesman Gary Keller said the girls, 15 year-old Satara Bylsma and 12-year-old McKenzey Madill, walked away from the Salt Lake County Juvenile Girl’s Youth Home, 177 West Price Ave. (3610 S.), about 10 p.m. Sunday.

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Police have issued an endangered missing person advisory for Madill due to her age. She was last seen wearing a pink coat, and is described as 5-foot-4, about 160 pounds, with red hair, blue eyes, freckles and with a scar near her nose.

She is believed to be with Bylsma, who is 5-foot-6, 115 pounds, with brown hair, shaved on one side. She was last seen wearing pajama pants and a sweatshirt.

Anyone with information is asked to call SSLPD at 801-840-4000.

A fourth man has been arrested in an August robbery.

20-year-old Logan Carroll has been arrested and faces a robbery charge, accused of being one of four men who picked up a woman, robbbed her and then dumped her on Richmond Road off Todds Road.

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The victim says she knew the men and was dating one of them.

A Madison County man is in trouble after attempting to swallow drugs he had hidden in his prosthetic leg.

It happened Sunday evening. Richmond Police were dispatched to WalMart in reference to a subject who had received a trespass warning earlier in the day.

Voyd A. Turner, 40, had returned to Walmart after he had been warned to not return to the store. Turner was allegedly intoxicated and was arrested for public intoxication and criminal trespass.

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During the booking process at the Madison County Detention Center, deputies wrestled with Turner while he was trying to swallow drugs he had hidden in his prosthetic leg. Suspected methamphetamine and suspected Suboxone were located during the booking search. After the scuffle, he was additionally charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance, tampering with physical evidence, and promoting contraband.

Turner is being held in the Madison County Detention Center.

A grand jury has indicted four people in relation to a fraud case involving the Lexington business Retire America.

Detectives say they started investigating the company earlier this month after the Commonwealth’s Attorney Office passed along a tip. Police say the victim reported losing more than $1.3 million.

The Fayette County Grand Jury has indicted Kenneth Eugene Thomas on charges of theft by unlawful taking over $10,000, five counts of theft by failure to make required disposition over $10,000, four counts of theft by failure to make required disposition over $300, and one count of fraudulent practices.

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All of Thomas’ charges are a Class C or D Felony.

Shannon Kay Hurst, Phillips J. Ash, and Roy Myers were all indicted on lesser charges related to the case.

Lexington Police are asking for anyone with information on the investigation to call them at (859) 258-3700.

A Harlan County woman has been arrested after police say a two-year-old child ate a suboxone pill of which she was allegedly in possession.

On November 10, KSP Post 10 received a call that a child had eaten a pill while in the care of her grandmother, Christy Worthington. Police determined that pill belonged to Ms. Worthington and that she did not have a prescription for Suboxone.

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Worthington has been charged with wanton endangerment, endangering the welfare of a minor and possession of a controlled substance. She was lodged in the Harlan County Detention center.

An elaborate identity theft ring uncovered in Pima County, law enforcement took down some of its members, but the investigation is growing.

Meantime, the arrests haven’t solved one victim’s problems. His information is seemingly spread far and wide. To protect what privacy he has left, he’s asked us not to identify him.

It all started with the theft of a backpack, two months ago to the day. The victim was knocked out cold while visiting his sister at an Ina Rd. apartment.

“Someone, something, hit me. But whoever it was was like a linebacker. Because I flew,” he said.

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When he came to, his belongings were gone.

He was out some cash, and some personal information. He reported the attack to the sheriff’s department.

A few days later, money started disappearing from his bank account in the form of fraudulent checks.

“This is not your average bear, the more I look at it, and the more sophisticated it is. This is not somebody who just decided to steal my backpack or to steal your checkbook, and start taking money out of your account, they’re good at it, their checks are as good as my own checks, I mean they’re good enough to clear the bank,” the victim said.

Some of them were small, 50 dollars. Others, over a thousand. His total loss, he says, is between 15 and 20 thousand dollars.

“No one should have all this stress in their lives, it’s just ridiculous,” he said.

Several suspects were seen in security video in the stores where those checks were used.

“At this point we have identified at least four, and we know of at least five victims. But we have the expectation that that number may grow,” Said Deputy tom Peine with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.

Further investigation resulted in more suspects, and more evidence.

“It starts as one thing as one crime, and then it mushrooms into all these other aspects that weren’t visible at first,” said Peine.

Arrests were made, but for the victim, his struggles are not over. “My life’s been impacted to the point where I feel like I’m being hunted,” he said.

Identity theft often starts with mail theft. So watch your mailboxes, and report this type of activity to the Postal Inspector, or to local law enforcement.

Thieves often get a hold of addresses and credit card information this way, and use it to make fraudulent checks.

A 69-year-old Prescott Valley man is accused of molesting a female child for years and recording videos of the alleged sexual encounters, according to an email from Sgt. Scott Stebbins with the Prescott Valley Police Dept.

Clarence Auburn Jones, 69, was arrested Nov. 4 on charges of sexual exploitation of a minor and molestation of a child. The abuse took place from 2005 to 2012, according to police.

Investigators said the abuse started when the victim was 10 years old and continued for seven years until she moved out of state.

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In 2012, a friend of the victim reported her concerns that the girl had been molested by Jones, but an investigation at that time by Child Protective Services and police could not substantiate the allegation.

Investigators were hindered by the fact that the victim had moved to another state and had told authorities in that state she was not a victim of the alleged crime.

The case was reopened recently after police received additional information that Jones was in possession of child pornography.

Detectives obtained a search warrant and found Jones had an extensive collection of child pornography downloaded from the Internet as well as sexually graphic videos he had made of himself with the child victim.

Detectives contacted the victim again, who is now 19 years old.

She was cooperative and stated she was emotionally relieved that the investigation was moving forward.

A grand injury has indicted a man accused of killing a Louisville cab driver and then trying to escape in the victim’s car.

Miles Matthews is charged with murder, robbery, tampering with evidence and fraudulent use of a card.

He is accused of calling a cab, then killing the driver, Adam Gregg, whose body was found dumped on the driveway of a home in Oldham County in July 2014.

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“We have reason to believe heroin was involved,” said Mark Lincoln with the New York State Police said.

Matthews was caught near the Canadian border in July. He was extradited to Kentucky after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge of fifth degree criminal possession of stolen property in New York.

A Georgia man who purchased stolen credit card data and other personal information through an identity theft and credit card fraud ring known as “Carder.su” was sentenced Wednesday to 115 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $50.8 million in restitution.

Cameron Harrison, aka “Kilobit,” 28, of Augusta, GA, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Andrew P. Gordon. At his guilty plea hearing in April, Harrison admitted he became associated with the Carder.su organization in June 2008. According to Harrison’s admissions, Carder.su was an Internet-based, international criminal enterprise whose members trafficked in compromised credit card account data and counterfeit identifications and committed money laundering, narcotics trafficking and computer crimes.

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The ring was uncovered during a joint probe by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the U.S. Secret Service. The case is being prosecuted by the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section and by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada.

“Cyber thieves created a real criminal organization through the virtual world of the Internet, stealing credit card data and relying on technology, perceived anonymity, and international borders to evade law enforcement,” said Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Cameron Harrison made a living by using that stolen financial information. Applying time-honored techniques from mob and gang prosecutions to this new generation of cyber criminals, we were able to infiltrate and bring down the Carder.su ring.”

Harrison admitted the ring tried to protect the anonymity and the security of the enterprise from both rival organizations and law enforcement. For example, members communicated through various secure and encrypted forums, such as chatrooms, private messaging systems, encrypted email, proxies and encrypted virtual private networks, according to ICE. Gaining membership in the group required the recommendation of two current members in good standing.

“This significant sentence is entirely fitting given that this defendant’s actions and those of the larger criminal organization harmed countless innocent Americans and seriously compromised our financial system,” said Homeland Security Investigations Executive Associate Director Peter T. Edge. “Criminals like this defendant who believe they can elude detection by hiding behind their computer screens here and overseas are discovering that cyberspace affords no refuge from American justice. HSI will continue to work closely with its law enforcement partners to track down these violators and see that they face the full weight of the law.”

Harrison admitted he purchased compromised credit card account data and other personal identifying information from fellow Carder.su members. He further admitted possessing over 260 compromised credit and debit card numbers, which were recovered from his computer and email accounts following his arrest.

Harrison was identified when he purchased a counterfeit Georgia driver’s license from an undercover special agent through the Carder.su network. During interactions with the undercover special agent, Harrison admitted having been a vendor of counterfeit identifications in the defunct cyberfraud organization “ShadowCrew.”

Fifty-five individuals were charged in four separate indictments as part of Operation Open Market, which targeted the Carder.su organization. To date, 26 individuals have been convicted and the rest are either fugitives or are pending trial.

This prosecution is part of efforts underway by President Barack Obama’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. President Obama established the inter-agency task force to wage an aggressive, coordinated and proactive effort to investigate and prosecute financial crimes. The task force includes representatives from a broad range of federal agencies, regulatory authorities, inspectors general and state and local law enforcement who, working together, bring to bear a powerful array of criminal and civil enforcement resources.

A Virginia man was sentenced Friday in Jefferson County Court to four years in state prison for having repeated sexual contact with two children in the city in the late 1990s.

Richard P. Gibson Sr., 49, Newport News, Va., was also ordered to undergo six years of additional supervision and to register with the state as a sex offender upon his release from prison after pleading guilty Sept. 26 to two counts of second-degree course of sexual conduct against a child.

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It had been alleged in a grand jury indictment handed up in April that he had repeated sexual contact with two children, a boy and a girl both under the age of 6, in 1997 and 1998. He was arrested by Virginia State Police in March and extradited to the area.