Alexandria police have located a missing 50-year-old man who they say suffers from early onset dementia and epilepsy.

James Mack Orange was located safe and unharmed Friday afternoon, officials said.

Police say Orange went missing on Thursday morning when he was last seen around 7:00 a.m in the 300 block of South Reynolds Street. He told someone he was walking to a nearby 7-Eleven to buy coffee and never returned home.

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Police said on Friday afternoon that they were using a Fairfax County helicopter to search for Orange in the area.

Anyone with information on this case can call officials at 703-746-6685.

A woman becomes the fifth person to be charged in connection with a deadly home invasion last week in Knox County.

42-year-old Stephanie Smith was booked into the Laurel County Detention Center Thursday night charged with murder in the shooting death of Donald Mills at his home on May 7.

The four people who have already been arrested in the case pleaded not guilty on May 19.

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Patrick Baker, Christopher Wagner, Elijah Messer and Angela Mills are all charged with murder in connection to the shooting death that started as a home invasion.

According to Kentucky State Police, two men pretending to be law enforcement broke down the door of Donald Mills’ home on Salt Gum Hollow Road in the Scalf Community of Knox County around 5:00 a.m., shooting and killing the 29-year-old homeowner during the struggle.

Mills’ wife took him to the hospital where he died.

Baker and Wagner were arrested on May 16. The next day, Messer and Angela Mills were also charged.

Melinda Smith, the victim’s sister, says someone who knew about the case told her last week Stephanie Smith was going to be arrested. She also said that same person told her what happened to her brother was premeditated.

The family says they’ve made T-shirts that say “In loving memory of Donald Mills – May Justice Be Served.” They plan on wearing those shirts to all the court appearances as they wait for justice in David’s name.

An Owensboro, Kentucky man is being held by the U.S. Marshals Service following his arrest May 9 for devising a scheme to defraud a Union County, Kentucky couple of nearly $150,000 in a home improvement scam announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. Robert K. Gray was awaiting sentencing in a similar case in which he had pleaded guilty to mail fraud in connection with defrauding over $200,000 from an elderly Daviess County, Kentucky couple and agreed to pay $220,000 restitution.

Defendant Gray, age 49, was charged in a 14-count federal grand jury indictment this week with two counts of wire fraud and 12 counts of structuring financial transactions in order to evade federal reporting requirements.

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According to the indictment, between January 17, 2014 and April 14, 2014, Gray was paid a total of $149,839 for work on the home of a Union County, Kentucky couple. Payment was made in the form of 24 checks drawn on their personal checking account at Old National Bank. It is alleged that defendant Gray never completed any of the home improvement projects he’d undertaken to perform. Further, Gray is charged with requesting payments be made in amounts under $10,000 and then cashing each of the checks at different branches of a financial institution in order to avoid the bank’s requirement to report currency transactions over $10,000 to the Internal Revenue Service. According to the indictment, between February 16, 2014 and February 27, 2014, in Daviess, Union, Henderson, and Hopkins Counties, defendant Gray knowingly and for the purposes of evading reporting requirements cashed checks, drawn on an Old National Bank account, in amounts less than $10,000.

If convicted at trial, Gray faces a combined term of not more than 100 years in prison, a fine of up to $1,000,000, and a term of supervised release of up to five years.

In a separate case, in February 2014, Gray admitted to defrauding an elderly Daviess County couple of their retirement fund by making material misrepresentations about an investment opportunity in the defendant’s construction company. Defendant Gray also made home improvements to the couple’s residence in excess of $300,000, an amount that is more than double the assessed value of the property.

Gray admitted to using investment funds he received from the victim to pay for personal expenses and to purchase vehicles, including a 2006 Hummer for $25,000 the day after Gray received and deposited the first investment check and, approximately two weeks later, to purchase a 2006 Kawasaki motorcycle for $5,000. Gray is scheduled for sentencing before Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr. on June 26, 2014, in U.S. District Court in Owensboro.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Marisa Ford and is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

The indictment of a person by a grand jury is an accusation only and that person is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

You’re shopping at the mall with your children when one of them suddenly disappears. A quick search of the nearby area is unsuccessful. What do you do? 

Now there’s a free new tool from the FBI that can help. Our just launched Child ID app—the first mobile application created by the FBI—provides a convenient place to electronically store photos and vital information about your children so that it’s literally right at hand if you need it. You can show the pictures and provide physical identifiers such as height and weight to security or police officers on the spot. Using a special tab on the app, you can also quickly and easily e-mail the information to authorities with a few clicks. 

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The app also includes tips on keeping children safe as well as specific guidance on what to do in those first few crucial hours after a child goes missing.

We encourage you to share the word about this app with family and friends, especially during upcoming activities in your communities to raise awareness on crime and drug prevention. For its part, the FBI is working to publicize the app with the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA)—its long-time partner in the National Child Identification Program, which provides a physical kit to gather your child’s pictures, fingerprints, personal characteristics, and even DNA to keep with you in case of emergency. The AFCA is producing a public service announcement about the app and will spread the word at various football games during the upcoming season. 

Right now, the Child ID app is only available for use on iPhones and can only be downloaded for free from the App Store on iTunes, but we plan to expand this tool to other types of mobile devices in the near future. And we’ll be adding new features—including the ability to upload other photos stored on your smart phone—in the coming weeks and months. 

Feel free to use this poster to promote the app. Download a high resolution version.

An important note: the FBI (and iTunes for that matter) is not collecting or storing any photos or information that you enter in the app. All data resides solely on your mobile device unless you need to send it to authorities. Please read your mobile provider’s terms of service for information about the security of applications stored on your device. 

Put your child’s safety in your own hands. Download the FBI’s Child ID app today. 

Resources:
– Updates to the App in October 2011
– Android version release in May 2012
– Full Content of the Child ID App (pdf)
– Download the Child ID App on iTunes
– Printable Brochure on the Child ID App (pdf)
– FBI’s Crimes Against Children website
– FBI Widgets

Authorities are hunting for a Rockcastle County Detention Center escapee.

Officials say Ruby Elizabeth Coyle, 32, was out on work release Thursday when Carrie Ann Gross, a friend, picked her up.

Coyle stands about 5′ tall and weighs around 135 pounds. She has brown hair and blue eyes.

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Officials say Coyle might be staying in the Richmond area, and that should is possibly traveling in a gold, four-door Pontiac Grand Am.

The Madison County woman found guilty of complicity in the murder and dismemberment of her ex-boyfriend’s wife has been sentenced to a total of 31 years in prison.

Christina Marcum was sentenced to the 30 years recommended by the jury plus an extra one year for a new charge of promoting contraband in jail.

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Marcum was found guilty of complicity to murder, complicity to tampering with evidence and complicity to hindering prosecution in March, in the murder and dismemberment of Angela Frazier back in 2011.

Back in March, the jury recommended 20 years for complicity to commit murder, five years for complicity to tampering with evidence and five years for complicity to hindering prosecution. The jury recommended that all three sentences run consecutively, which amounts to a total of 30 years.

Marcum’s attorney says he plans to appeal.

Angela Frazier’s body was found on Jan. 19, 2011, in six trash bags at the end of Tattler Branch Road in the Valley View community of Madison County.

Frazier’s husband, Jason Singleton, pleaded guilty to helping with the crime.

Singleton told the court Marcum strangled Frazier and he helped dispose of the body. He said after consuming some prescriptions, he cut up his wife’s body and tried to hide her remains.

On the day police believe Frazier was killed, January 16, 2011, police said Marcum and Singleton texted and called each other 105 times. Det. Reeder said the contact went up tremendously between 6 and 11 p.m.

Singleton was sentenced to 20 years for complicity to murder, five years for evidence tampering and five years for abuse of a corpse, with all of the sentences to be served consecutively. He was also sentenced for a standoff with Somerset Police, but those charges are to be served concurrently with the murder charges.

A 41-year-old man was arrested in Milwaukie on Thursday on allegations of child sex abuse.

Milwaukie police said Jason James Karsten was accused of abusing 12-year-old girls in his home in the 6600 block of SE Plum Street in Milwaukie last year.

Karsten was charged with three counts of sex abuse I and lodged at the Clackamas County Jail with bond set at $750,000.

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Detectives said they are concerned there may be more victims of abuse that have not yet contacted police. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Milwaukie Police Department at 503.786.7500.

No further information was released due to the fact that the investigation is ongoing.

Investigators are combing an area in Marshall in hopes of finding any clues related to the disappearance of a 43-year-old Kilgore woman.

Christina Rea Davison has been missing from her home in the 500 block of Elder Road since Saturday morning.

Kilgore Detective Trae Portwood said Wednesday that Davison’s purse was found near Loop 390 in Marshall at about 7:30 a.m. Saturday by Marshall police, but there has been no sign of Davison or her black 1990s model Toyota Camry.

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“We did a ground search with Marshall Police Department on Tuesday,” Portwood said. “We found personal items in the general area where the purse was found but not sure if they are connected to (Davison).”

Portwood said Davison was reported missing Saturday morning by her co-workers at Whataburger in the 100 block of N. Henderson Boulevard.

“She should have been at Whataburger at 7 a.m., but by 8:30 a.m. she was still missing,” he said. “She was normally 30 minutes early. She had a very good work history with that employer.”

Harrison County Administrative Deputy Jay Webb said authorities performed a search Saturday afternoon at a property on Roy Green Road but found no sign of the missing woman.

“The ex-husband has a house here in Harrison County, and we searched the house and did not find any evidence of anything,” Webb said. “He is being cooperative and told us he didn’t even know she was missing.”

Kilgore resident Melodie Addy, a co-worker of Davison’s, said she last saw the woman at 9 p.m. Friday.

“She had come and eaten supper with us and left about 9 p.m,” Addy said. “We were supposed to come to work together at 7 a.m. Saturday morning, and when I got here, she was not here. That was unusual.”

Addy said Davison did appear to be troubled by something Friday night but did not tell her anything.

“We became good friends and did a lot of stuff together, but she didn’t talk a whole lot about what was going on. I really just don’t know,” she said.

Addy said she went to Davison’s home after becoming concerned but did not find any sign of her.

“When I went to her house, the door was open and the television was on,” Addy said. “But her car wasn’t there. I’m hoping she just got spooked and left.”

Portwood said Kilgore police have not classified Davison’s disappearance as a criminal investigation but said investigators did find forensic evidence that is being evaluated.

“There was no sign of forced entry,” he said. “Ninety-five percent of the time, a missing person shows up, and there is a good explanation for them being gone. But there has not been any contact with her since 9:30 p.m. Friday night. She needs to let somebody know if she’s out there and OK.”

Davison’s car has a temporary license plate tag and two broken door handles on the rear driver and passenger doors.

“We’re not sure if she has registered her vehicle,” he said. “There is no evidence that she has titled this vehicle, but we do know it was bought very recently.”

The parents accused of offering their teenage daughters to strangers in exchange of money and other items have pleaded guilty in the case.

Anthony and Kathy Hart pleaded guilty to second degree unlawful transaction with a minor. They were originally charged with human trafficking for allegedly approaching men in stores asking them if they’d like to spend time with their daughters.

Four of the five charges were dismissed with their plea.

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Berea Police say the Harts would exchange their 13- and 14-year-old daughters for clothes, money, and food. The couple was arrested in 2011 and pleaded not guilty in Dec. 2012.

Police say the investigation started back in December 2010 when a teacher spotted two provocatively dressed girls outside of a Richmond movie theater, apparently being pimped out. She told police a man asked the girls’ father, “how much he wanted for both of them.”

The girls allegedly told detectives they would receives gifts, clothes and money in exchange for letting the men touch and kiss them.

Police arrested the Harts back in 2002 when they tried to sell a 3-month-old for about $3,000 at a Danville Walmart. The potential buyer was an undercover officer. Anthony Hart spent two years in prison for that crime. Kathy Hart never faced trial.

Their sentencing is scheduled for July 10.