The Williamsburg Police Department is asking for help identifying a person of interest in a fraud investigation.

According to Williamsburg police, an unknown woman went into the Wells Fargo Bank on Richmond Road on July 15 and withdrew a large sum of cash. Investigators said she used the stolen identity of a local citizen to withdraw the money.

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According to police, the individual later attempted to do the same thing at a Yorktown branch, but was not successful.

If you recognize the woman, you’re asked to call the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.

A Montgomery man has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing three children over the course of 16 years.

Daniel Lex Baggett, 47, was taken into custody Wednesday by the U.S. Marshals Service and transported to the Montgomery County Detention Facility, according to the Montgomery Police Department.

Baggett faces three felony charges of sexual abuse of a child, one for each victim. He is being held on a total bond of $250,000. All three alleged victims were younger than 12 at the time of the abuse. Baggett also has been charged with two counts of first-degree sodomy.

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Police Sgt. Denise Barnes, an MPD spokeswoman, said officers initiated the investigation after the abuse was reported in July. Barnes said the alleged victims, now adults, came to police to report the abuse occurred between 1988 and 2004.

Baggett could not be reached for comment. Court records do not list an attorney for Baggett.

Jannah Bailey, director of Child Protect, said it is not unusual for victims to wait so long before reporting abuse.

“We don’t know what may trigger a child to report abuse or to talk about it all of a sudden,” Bailey said. “Maybe something triggered their memory later in life, but it’s not unusual.”

Child Protect is a nonprofit organization that aids law enforcement and human resources in child abuse cases with forensic interviews, court appearances and counseling, and working directly with children to help them feel comfortable and at ease.

Bailey and her team typically work with victims ages 3 to 18 and will not be involved in this case since the victims are now adults.

Child Protect on average help about 600 children a year. Ninety-eight percent of those are sexual abuse cases. The other 2 percent are physical abuse cases and cases in which a child has witnessed a horrific crime, Bailey said.

Bailey hopes others will report abuse if the are aware of it.

“If you suspect sexual abuse, you should report it,” Bailey said. “You could be the only one between that child and their abuser.”

A man under investigation by the Department of Human Services allegedly asked relatives to hide his computer, which yielded a large collection of child pornography when searched by Linn County deputies.

Robert Littleton Willis, 35, of Salem faces 123 counts of encouraging child sex abuse in the first degree, according to the Linn County Sheriff’s Office. He is in the Linn County jail and his bail is $1,230,000.

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Willis had been under investigation by the Child Welfare Division of the Department of Health and Human Services in Marion County. Deputies in Linn County discovered that he had handed his computer over to family members in Mill City and asked them to hide it.

Family members became suspicious and searched the computer and found child pornography. They called the sheriff’s office and the computer was seized by authorities.

Deputies obtained a warrant to search the computer and found 123 digital photos and videos of girls as young as 5-years-old involved in sexually explicit conduct, including being raped by men.

Linn County detectives are continuing the investigation.

Police are digging deeper into the past of Lexington twin brothers facing child porn charges.

Investigators are back at the home of the Cassidy brothers, former Boy Scout leaders, executing a search warrant and looking for any clues that might help crack a three decades old mystery.

Around 20 police officers, most of them from the crimes against children unit, converged on the Mason Headley home around 1:30 p.m. Friday. Police scanned everything in the home to record the evidence in 3-D, in order to keep a “real life” record of all the contents.

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Their mission is to identify some of the children detectives say were found on videos, pictures, cameras and film.

Jack and Jerry Cassidy are currently facing child porn charges, but the 76-year-old twins could be charged with more offenses, depending on what the police find. Those who grew up in the neighborhood say there were red flags here 30 and 40 years ago. Some recall seeing pre-teen boys riding go-carts with the Cassidys in their yard.

The Cassidys were once scout leaders in Lexington in the 1970s, but were banned from the organization when charged with crimes involving children. The brothers were both charged with three counts of unlawful transaction with a minor, a misdemeanor in three separate incidents in 1977.

The offenses did not involve boy scouts.

A Rockcastle County man is hoping others won’t fall for a phone scam that cost him thousands of dollars.

Charlie Page says it started with a phone call at his home in the tiny community of Orlando when he thought it was his grandson on the phone.

“It was his voice, you know,” Page said.

The caller wanted money.

“I asked him. I said, ‘what’s wrong, son?’ he said, ‘I’m in jail’.”

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The caller said he needed $3,000 for bail, and fast. Page was instructed to go to the store and buy money-pak cards so he could send cash instantly over the phone.

“They thought it was a good thing, I guess, because they called us back the next day and wanted $2,000 more. And we gave it to them,” Page said.

Page says the next day he talked to his real grandson who’d never gone to jail. He then realized he’d been duped.

“It made me think we’re not the brightest bears in the woods,” he said. “They couldn’t have pulled this off with a young person. It had to be an elderly person, and I’m 80-years-old, you know.”

He says he’s hoping his story will alert other senior citizens to pay attention and not fall victim to scams. The FBI actually has a name for this scam – they call it the “grandparent scam.”

Almost 40 years ago, a 10-year-old boy went missing in Massachusetts, leading the community on a week long search.

Now, one of those searches is living in Lee County. Johnny Range reached out to LEX 18 with a hand-written note and a picture from 1976 of 10-year-old Andy Puglisi. Puglisi went missing from a public swimming pool in Lawrence, Massachusetts on August 21, 1976.

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At that time, Range was living on a military base. As soon as he heard about the missing boy, he spent days helping with the search.

“Even though it’s been almost 40 years, a lot of people move around and there could be somebody in this area that knows something about it and maybe doesn’t even realize they know,” says Range.

After a week long hunt and decades of investigations, very little has turned up in the serach for Andy.
The search is something that still haunts Range, 38 years later.

“It just felt like a part of me, you know, because it was so close,” says Range.

If you have any information on the disappearence of Andy Puglisi, you can comment on the facebook page “Have you seen Andy?”

A Western Kentucky man has been arrested in the death of his father.

Terry Hayes told state police he found his father’s body after arriving at his home.

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Bailey Hayes was found at the house on Greg St. in Graves County on Wednesday. As police investigated, they determined the death was suspicious.

Terry Hayes now faces a manslaughter charge.

A man wanted for stealing a vintage Mercedes last month and crashing it is behind bars.

20-year-old Michael Amosson faces several charges including theft.

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A camera inside the car caught Amosson and another man jumping out and running away just before the car slammed into a tree.

Police are still searching for the other suspect.

Police made a fourth arrest in a Wednesday night’s deadly shooting in Louisville.

According to the arrest report, 21-year-old Bennie Thomas was arrested just before 10:00 Thursday night accused of being one of four men who broke into an apartment early Wednesday morning and got in a fight with the homeowner, who was shot and killed.

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Thomas, Raquan Carmichael, Mohammad Jawad and Freddie Downer, Jr. are charged with murder and burglary.