The Camden County Police Department is looking for a missing 14-year-old from the Gateway neighborhood.

Jule Jackson was reported missing Friday from his home on the 1000 block of Division Street. He is described as a black male, 5’1”, 80 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. He has been reported missing four times and is known to frequent Parkside and Fairview.

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Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call the CCPD tip line at (856) 757-7042.

A Louisville man and his dog were killed Friday night in a crash along the interstate in Scott County.

According to the Scott County Coroner, the two-vehicle wreck happened just before midnight on I-64 near mile marker 68. That is close to the Woodford County line.

The coroner said something caused a driver to cross the center line on the interstate, colliding head-on with the victim’s vehicle.

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The name of the victim is not being released until family members can be notified. However, the coroner said the victim is a 31-year-old man from Louisville.

The man in the other vehicle involved was taken to UK Hospital where he was listed in critical condition. His name has not been released, either.

An Omaha man who spent less than three years in prison for participating in the gang-rape of teenager in 2000 now faces life in prison for allegedly sexually assaulting two young girls within months of leaving prison in 2004.

Kelvin Smith, 35, was convicted this week by a Sarpy County jury of 11 sex-related crimes against the young girls, including first-degree sexual assault of a child and third-degree sexual assault of a child, The Omaha World-Herald reported (http://bit.ly/SISMR8 ).

He faces up to life in prison when he’s sentenced on Aug. 11.

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The girls were 9 and 10 years old when Smith began abusing them in 2004, months after he had been released from prison, prosecutors said.

Smith was charged with first-degree sexual assault and false imprisonment in a 2000 attack on a 19-year-old woman. Prosecutors say several men dragged her into an abandoned north Omaha house and took turns raping her. She managed to escape after stabbing Smith with a knife.

As part of a plea deal, Smith pleaded no contest to attempted sexual assault in that case.

The victim in that case told the World-Herald on Friday that she had been angry over Smith’s sentence in her case, which she felt was too lenient. But she said she’s happy he faces decades in prison for his latest convictions.

The Associated Press generally does not name victims of sexual assault.

“I was really happy,” she said, “but I was sorry it had to happen again.”

Police are asking the public for help finding a missing girl.

Stevie Rae Shane, 12, walked away from Youth Services Group Home at 10 p.m. Friday, according to South Salt Lake Police. The endangered missing alert was activated due to her age.

Stevie Rae Shane is five-feet tall and weights approximately 85 pounds. She has brown hair and blue eyes and was last seen wearing a purple and pink button shirt and purple pants.

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Police said she has a history of running away and frequents the Cottonwood Heights and West Valley City areas.

Anyone with information is asked to contact South Salt Lake Police dispatch at 801-840-4000.

It’s being called one of the state’s largest meth busts in recent memory, and some of the circumstances surrounding the find are a bit unusual.

After officers pulled over a truck Wednesday on I-40 near Holbrook, the Navajo County Sheriff Department’s drug dog located 58 pounds of crystal methamphetamine inside an air compressor on the vehicle. The meth has a street value of more than $2.6 million, according to the sheriff’s department.

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The driver of the vehicle, Erasmo Aguirre-Padilla, 32, was alone.

Chief Deputy Jim Molesa told 12 News the person who packaged up and hid the meth tried some things a bit different from the way many drug transporters try to hide drugs.

“The person divided 58 pounds of crystal meth into several bundles, wrapped the meth packages in cellophane, then dipped those packages into grease to try to hide the odor,” he explained. “They put the grease-covered bundles into dozens of Tupperware containers. Then, they took it one step further and put the Tupperware containers inside a heavy-duty metal air compressor.”

A sheriff’s department K-9 managed to smell the meth inside the compressor even though it was buried in multiple layers of protection.

Navajo County Sheriff K.C. Clark says the situation is not only troubling because Aguirre-Padilla was allegedly smuggling drugs but also because he was recently arrested by the Department of Homeland Security and was on release from its custody when he was caught.

“Some of these individuals like Aguirre-Padilla are criminals and are a danger to our communities,” Sheriff Clark said. “The damage that 58 pounds of this poison does to our families and communities is huge. How many other loads of this poison has he done while on a (federal) ‘catch and release’?”

Aguirre-Padilla was booked into the Navajo County jail pending several charges, including: transportation of a dangerous drug for sale; possession of a dangerous drug for sale; and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Nine janitorial workers suspected of using fictitious documents to get jobs and their manager were arrested in a raid of state office buildings in Phoenix.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the raid that resulted in the arrests of the Upright Commercial Cleaning employees was carried out Thursday night at Arizona Department of Transportation offices at the state capitol complex.

The sheriff’s Criminal Employment Squad began investigating the cleaning company after ADOT employees reported possible fraud. One of the janitorial workers reportedly attempted to change his name on his ADOT building access card.

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Arpaio said the nine workers are immigrants who aren’t in the country legally and the manager is a U.S. citizen suspected of knowing that employees were using fake documents.

The sheriff’s office said the manager will be charged with trafficking in identity theft, a class two felony. The employees were arrested on forgery charges.

They were all booked into the Fourth Avenue Jail.

According to the sheriff’s office, the owners of Upright Commercial Cleaning were cooperative during the investigation and likely had no knowledge of the alleged criminal activity.

A message left at the business by the Associated Press wasn’t immediately returned Friday.

The sheriff’s office said a search warrant served at the business Friday revealed further documentation of potential identity theft and forgery.

The investigation is ongoing.

The bust marks the 83rd business raid by Arpaio’s office since 2008. More than 780 people have been arrested on suspicion of forgery and identity theft.

Critics say the raids have done little to hold employers accountable.

Supporters say the raids have helped combat identity theft.

“Forgery and the use of fake identifications is a serious crime which creates serious security issues, especially when a government establishment is infiltrated by people with fraudulent identifications,” Arpaio said in a statement.

A Lewisville man is facing 14 charges, including 12 felony charges, in Watonwan County District Court related to sexual abuse of children during a six-year period.

Bernard Kleinschmidt Jr., 39, was arrested after admitting to numerous sexual acts with two underage girls, according to the criminal complaint.

The complaint states his hands were “shaking profusely” when initially questioned by police about an allegation. He allegedly agreed to talk with police at the scene and willingly went with them to the police department.

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The complaint said the sexual contact between him and the victims ranged from the victims dancing nude in front of him to touching of genitals to rape.

Kleinschmidt admitted to sexual contact with the victims, who he knew, during various periods that lasted from the time they were 5 or 6 years old to the time they were 9 or 10 years old, according to the complaint. He allegedly admitted to about 20 sexual encounters with one of the victims since the time she was 5 or 6.

He also allegedly indicated he likely had child pornography on his computer. Pornographic photographs, which allegedly involved underage girls, and the computer were seized during a police search of his residence.

He was charged this week with numerous counts, including six felony counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, three felony counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct and two gross misdemeanor counts of fifth-degree lewd exhibition.

Kleinschmidt’s bail was set at $150,000 with conditions and $300,000 without conditions.

He is scheduled for a court appearance Tuesday.

Nearly a year after she was reported missing, the family of a Bracken County woman continues to search for answers.

Kimberly Abercrombie was reported missing last June.

“She’s really family. She married into the family and we feel that she’s family,” said Phyllis Abercrombie, Kimberly’s grandmother-in-law.

While her husband, Nick, was serving in Afghanistan, Kimberly and her young son were staying with Phyllis. Phyllis says they last saw Kimberly last May.

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“My grandson called the house here and he wanted to know if we knew where she was at because he hadn’t heard from her and we just started checking around with friends that we knew and they hadn’t either,” said Phyllis.

The family admits Kimberly struggled with drugs and had a warrant out for her arrest. They fear the worst has happened because they say Kimberly wouldn’t have abandoned her young son.

“She always called Zane and talked to him or whoever had him and she wasn’t doing that. so that’s what had us worried,” said Phyllis.

Kentucky State Police began investigating the disappearance last June. Kimberly’s car was found along AA Highway last summer but the Abercrombies say they haven’t heard any new information in months.

With the passing of a year, they hope someone comes forward with information.

“There’s somebody that knows where she’s at if she is dead, and I just wish, anonymously, they would tell the police. We need closure,” said Phyllis.

Kimberly had several distinguishing tattoos including a large fairy on her back and “Zane” across her foot.

Anyone with information is asked to call state police Dry Ridge Post.

Boulder police are searching for three suspects in an identify theft case from April.

Police today said that, on April 6, a woman reported she lost her wallet as she was working out with friends in the area of Broadway and Pearl Street. Before she cancelled her credit card, five different people used it to make several purchases at a Shell gas station at 1480 Canyon Blvd. the same day.

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Through video footage, police have identified and arrested two people in the case.

Three suspects are still at large. Two are described as white males between the ages of 18 and 28 with short brown hair, and the third is a white female between the ages of 17 and 25 with long reddish hair.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Sharon Ramos at 303-441-3323. Those who wish to remain anonymous may contact the Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS or crimeshurt.com

Emergency crews have shut down a road in Scott County after a deadly crash.

It happened on Cincinnati Road just north of Eagle Springs around 3:3 p.m. Friday.

Deputies said a group of bicyclists were stopped on the side of the road doing maintenance when a pickup, which was heading southbound, somehow ran into two of the bicyclists.

One woman was killed and another bicyclist was hurt.

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The woman has been identied as 24-year-old Jamie Peters from Baltimore.

Peters was in Kentucky with the biking group 4K For Cancer, a group that bikes across the country. According to investigators, the group was heading toward Lexington when the accident happened.

Investigators said they don’t believe there were any contributing factors in this crash and have the driver still on scene.

They also have crash reconstruction units out there from the Georgetown Police Department and plan to keep the road closed as they gather evidence.

The second person that was hit only had minor injuries and was taken to Georgetown Hospital.