A Pendleton County man was arrested on charges related to child pornography Thursday after Kentucky State Police served a search warrant at his home.

Gary Neil Pollard, 30, is charged with one count of distribution of matter portraying a sex performance by a minor and 16 counts of possession of matter portraying a sex performance by a minor.

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Detectives with the KSP Electronic Crime Branch began investigating after they discovered a suspect sharing images of child sexual exploitation online.

Equipment used to distribute and possess child pornography was seized and taken to KSP’s Forensic Laboratory for examination.

He is being held in the Boone County Jail.

Lexington Police say the missing man who could be dangerous to himself and others was spotted at a Lexington nightclub.

Police say they received a tip that 36-year-old James Caldwell was seen at Spearmint Rhino, but they didn’t find him.

Caldwell was caught on camera eating at a Laurel County Dairy Queen just a couple hours after he disappeared from a home in Lexington.

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Officers have been trying to find the 36-year-old after they say he made very specific threats to a woman and three local businesses. As a result, two warrants have been issued for Caldwell – for stalking and terroristic threatening.

Police say Caldwell may have a mental illness, and if seen is not to be approached. If you have any information, you are asked to call police.

He is believed to be driving a charcoal gray 2013 Toyota Corolla with a “Friends of Coal” license plate.

Caldwell has no criminal history in Lexington. Police say he has family in London and Corbin.

Anyone who’s seen the aftermath of a car-on-deer collision knows the scene is far from a pretty one. But officials in Pennsylvania say a group of 41 scammers took the time to stage similar gory tableaus to fake single-car accidents and defraud insurance companies out of $5 million total.

Using a variety of deer parts, geese, dogs, blood, fur, concrete, overturned cartons of fruit and other props, prosecutors say the owner of an auto-body shop (and alleged mob associate) and his group staged elaborate scenes in order to defraud auto insurance companies, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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A grand jury called the scheme the business of “fictitious deer accidents,” wherein the shop owner told workers to pull weeds from the river and create “Hollywood photos” of fake accidents.

He allegedly preferred making it look like single-vehicle accidents because those would more likely be dubbed “no-fault” situations by insurance companies, making it likely that they’d pay the claims without raising the owners’ premiums.

Witnesses for the grand jury said he’d say, “I live my life to cheat insurance companies.”

He and 40 other people have been charged with fraud after 16-month investigation by a Philadelphia grand jury.

19-year-old Richard Rucks is charged with three counts of First Degree Child Sex Assault after allegedly having sex with a 12-year-old Milwaukee girl he met on a dating website.

According to the criminal complaint, Rucks met the 12-year-old girl on the dating website Plenty of Fish. Both say they had only been chatting a few days before Rucks came to Milwaukee to take the girl to his place in Janesville.

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The two were staying at Rucks’ Janesville residence for three days before police came looking for the 12-year-old runaway. After being arrested Rucks told police the 12-year-old girl was posing as a 19-year-old on the dating website. Rucks alleges the girl didn’t reveal her real age until after they had sex.

The 12-year-old girl told police she and Rucks had sex about five or six times.

If convicted on all three counts of First Degree Child Sex Assault, Rucks faces a sentence of up to 180 years in prison.

The search continues for a woman who police say robbed a Jackson County Bank Thursday afternoon.

Police say around 3:30pm Thursday, a woman captured on surveillance walked into the Sand Gap branch of the Jackson County Bank, demanded money, then took off with an undisclosed amount of cash.

“The initial investigation it appears she was wearing a pink shirt and a light colored ball cap,” said Trooper Robert Purdy with Kentucky State Police.

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Police say the woman then got into the passenger seat of a car waiting across the street. The four door gold or silver colored passenger car was last seen traveling toward US 421 in Sand Gap.

This is just the latest in what locals call a crime spree over the last few months.

“It’s very frustrating. You look at every person that comes through your store that you don’t know and every person that you do know wondering if they’re connected or who they know,” said Linda Isaacs, who owns the Whistle Stop Gas and Grocery across the street from the bank.

She says this is the third time the bank’s been hit in the last month.

“The ATM had been broken into and also they tried to cut into the bank,” said Isaacs.

She says thieves even broke into the town fire station before hitting her store two months ago.

“That’s a pretty horrifying experience in itself. When you walk up or come into your parking lot in the morning and find out it’s been broken into and everything that you’ve worked for for the last 5 years pretty much like no body cared and threw it to the dust,” said Isaacs.

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With the increase in crime, Sand Gap has also created a community council to watch over their town. The council met Thursday evening after the bank robbery.

Call Kentucky State Police if you have any information about this bank robbery.

A Baldwin man was sentenced to prison Tuesday in an insurance fraud scheme stemming from the 2012 torching of a luxury car in Queens, prosecutors said.

Nassau District Judge Martin Massell sentenced Henry Flores, 28, to 11/2 to 3 years after he pleaded guilty in March to felony fourth-degree insurance fraud, according to the Nassau County district attorney’s office.

The FDNY was called to the scene of a burning 2009 Range Rover on Sept. 12, 2012, which fire marshals determined was arson, prosecutors said in a news release.

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Five days later, the owner, a Queens resident, “filed a fraudulent police report” with Nassau police and a fraudulent claim with his insurance company, claiming “his vehicle had been stolen from in front of a friend’s house in North Bellmore” on Sept. 16, prosecutors said. “As part of the insurance claim, the owner sought to be paid at least $38,000 — the total loss value of the vehicle.”

A subsequent investigation determined “the owner had given the vehicle to Flores and paid him $2,000 to damage and dispose of the vehicle so that the owner could file a bogus insurance claim,” the office of District Attorney Kathleen Rice said. “As part of that investigation, the FDNY obtained an audio recording of Flores admitting that he had given the vehicle to a third person for the purpose of having it torched in Queens.”

Shortly after Flores’ arrest in October 2012, “the owner died of natural causes in a Brooklyn hospital,” prosecutors said. “The third person involved in the scheme was not identified.”

A woman who pulled off the road to see why a Brunswick police officer had stopped her friend was arrested herself after a drug-sniffing dog alerted on her car, police said.

A Brunswick police officer stopped a Jeep about 1:15 p.m. Tuesday on the F.J. Torras Causeway after its driver failed to stop for a stoplight while turning onto the causeway from the mainland, Brunswick Police Capt. Kevin Jones said.

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As the officer talked with the driver, he noticed a strong odor of marijuana from the Jeep and called for a dog trained to sense the presence of drugs, Jones said.

After the dog, K-9 Brax II, alerted on the Jeep, officers searched it and found .10 grams of cocaine, a half-pound of marijuana and 205.1 grams of suspected marijuana powder, Jones said.

The driver of the Jeep, Odet Douglass, 25, of St. Simons Island, was charged with possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute and running a traffic light, Jones said.

While officers were conducting the investigation of the Jeep, a woman in another vehicle pulled over and asked why police had stopped Douglass, who she said was her friend, Jones said.

The woman was instructed to leave the scene, but she remained and Brax II alerted on her vehicle, Jones said.

Officers searched it and found 19.6 grams of marijuana and an open container of alcohol, Jones said.

The driver of the second vehicle, Katherine Lang, 25, of Brunswick, was charged with possession of less than an ounce of marijuana and possession of an open container, police said.

Douglass posted $18,208 in bail Tuesday and was released, Glynn County Sheriff’s Office records show.

Lang was also released.

The suspected marijuana powder was sent to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab for identification.

Glynn-Brunswick Narcotics Enforcement Team investigators said that if the substance tests positive as marijuana powder, it will be the first time any has been seized in Glynn County.

Two warrants have been issued for a missing Lexington man police say may be a danger to himself and others.

Arrest warrants for stalking and terroristic threatening have been issued for 36-year-old James Caldwell who went missing on Tuesday morning from a home on Eureka Drive in Lexington and left behind a letter in which he threatened a woman and three local businesses.

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Lexington Police say Caldwell may suffer a mental illness and could be a threat to himself and aggressive toward others.

Images of Caldwell were captured in surveillance cameras of a Dairy Queen in London shortly before 8:00 a.m. Tuesday, just a couple hours after he went missing.

Caldwell is believed to be driving a charcoal gray 2013 Toyota Corolla with a “Friends of Coal” license plate.

Police are usually sensitive about disclosing information about someone’s mental state or their health issues, but because of all of the uncertainty surrounding Caldwell, they knew public safety had to be their number one priority.

Caldwell has no criminal history in Lexington. Police say he has family in London and Corbin.

If you see of believe you have seen Caldwell, you are asked to call police immediately.

Police in Louisville arrested a woman after a fatal stabbing Thursday night.

Police say officers responded to Oboe Drive on the southwest side of the city around 10 p.m. When they arrived, they found a man in his 70s suffering from several stab wounds. He died at the scene.

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Police say the suspect was frequently at the victim’s home, but it remains unclear if she lived there.

Officials have not released the name of the victim or the suspect.