A Campbellsville man who previously pled guilty to violating federal child exploitation laws was sentenced to 15 years in prison, followed by 15 years of supervised release yesterday, by Chief United States District Court Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr., announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.

Michael William Bolter, age 42, pleaded guilty to a two-count Indictment on November 15, 2013. The indictment charged him with distributing and possessing child pornography. Bolter had a 2001 child pornography conviction in Bristol Superior Court of Massachusetts.

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While working online in an undercover capacity on December 19, 2012, a deputy sheriff in Taylor County observed an IP address for a computer that had been sharing images of child pornography. The deputy sheriff downloaded numerous files of child pornography from the computer with the previously identified IP address. He obtained and executed a state search warrant (on January 29, 2013) at the physical address associated with the IP address during which law enforcement officials seized a Toshiba laptop.

Law enforcement officials identified Michael William Bolter as the person using the computer to trade child pornography. During an interview conducted simultaneously with execution of the search warrant, Bolter admitted that child pornography images would be on his computer. Subsequent forensic examination of the computer by the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed approximately 3,000 still images and 50 movie files containing child pornography. Many of the files were recovered from a folder labeled “My shared folder” within a peer-to-peer file sharing program on the Toshiba laptop.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jo E. Lawless prosecuted the case. The Taylor County Sheriff’s Department and Louisville Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (both members of the Kentucky Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force) conducted the investigation.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys’ Offices, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc. For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.justice.gov/psc and click on the “Resources” tab.

Describing people:
When at all possible snap a photo, have your phone set up to be a one button push to activate camera. If you have a photograph, recent or not, carry with you to help describe. Some military use a mnemonic ‘A to J’.

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Age
-approx
Build
-Slim, medium, Heavy, Well Built, Athletic, Muscular, Wiry
Clothing
-Smart, professional, grunge, Industry worker
Distinguishing Marks
– Tattoos , skin marks, teeth, piercing, rings, speech accents
Elevation ( Height )
-Usually compared to yourself or someone you are close to
Face
-Facial shape, round, Fat, slim, Oval, drawn, small, large
-Eyes large, small, squint, slanted, bloodshot, hooded
-Eyebrows, thick, thin, bushy, arched, slanted, straight
-Nose , small, large, wide, narrow, button, hooked, bumpy, pointed, squashed
-Teeth, white, discolored, false, capped, shipped, crowned
-Lips, Fat, thin, Color, pouty
-Chin, square, round, pointed, double
-Facial Hair Mustache, beard, stubble, sculpted,thin, thick, pointed
Gait
-distinctive walk pattern fast, slow, bouncy, lethargic
-Posture, upright, slouched, round shouldered,
Hair
-Color
-length
-style
I Code Ethnicity
– Asian (Indian, Pakistani ), Black,Chinese, Mixed, White
Just Like ( resemblances )
– What famous face do they most resemble

The Fayette County Coroner and Lexington police were called out to Silver Maple Way around 5:15pm Monday to investigate what the coroner called a death that is of unnatural causes.

Investigators are remaining tight lipped about the investigation but called in the mobile crime lab around 8pm.

The coroner says a man was found inside a home Silver Maple Way but won’t comment further on the death.

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Detectives spent the evening interviewing neighbors and searching the surrounding yards as they continue to process the scene.

“The forensic unit of the Lexington Police Department is on the scene with the mobile crime lab. Any time we’re processing a scene there’s a lot of equipment that’s there that helps process everything that’s inside so we’ll be gathering evidence and processing that. So the crime scene makes it a whole lot easier for the police department,” said Coroner Gary Ginn.

Ginn says he expects an autopsy to be performed tomorrow in Frankfort.

The Corpus Christi Police Department Homicide/Robbery Bureau is asking the public’s assistance in locating 35 year old Sean Yates  who was reported missing on January 30, 2014.  Yates was last seen at 902 Airport Road and is in need of his medication.

Sean was last seen wearing a grey shirt, dark jeans and white tennis shoes. He is 5′ 5″ tall and weighs 154 pounds. He has brown hair and blue eyes. He is non-aggressive, likes flashing lights and police officers.

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If you have any information or know the whereabouts of Sean Yates please call CCPD’s 911 Metrocom Center. For further information please contact Corpus Christi Police Department Homicide/Robbery Detective R.L. Garcia at 361-886-2850.

Police across central Virginia are working to find one of their own who disappeared over the weekend.

A silver SUV belonging to 45-year-old Kevin Wayne Quick of Nelson County was recovered Monday in Louisa County but the discovery raises many new questions about Quick’s mysterious disappearance.

Quick is a captain in the Waynesboro Police Department’s reserve unit. He was last seen at his mother’s home in Afton late Friday night. Police say he told her he was going to a friend’s home in the Turtle Creek neighborhood off Hydraulic Road in Albemarle County. Quick never showed up and his family reported him missing Saturday night – launching a ground and air search from Nelson to Albemarle.

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State police say the investigation has taken them to Fork Union, Manassas and now Louisa. An aviation crew flew over the route he would have taken and also did a ground search.

Sunday night state police released two surveillance photos showing a man wearing a hoodie. Investigators say they believe the person in the photos knows something about Quick’s disappearance. State police spokesperson Corinne Geller confirmed that they are looking for two adult males, but have only released photos showing one of them.

Police also released a surveillance photo showing Quick’s vehicle. In a press release they stated, “Quick’s silver 1999 Toyota Forerunner also appears in the photographs that place the vehicle in Fork Union, Va., on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014, and in the Manassas area Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014.”

Monday afternoon, state police and Waynesboro police held a joint news conference, where they confirmed that Quick’s vehicle has been recovered. The Forerunner was spotted Monday at a home in the 3600 block of Cedar Hill Road in Mineral, Va.

Police say the SUV had been abandoned and was discovered by the homeowner shortly after 8 a.m. Police say at this stage of the investigation, there is no evidence that the homeowner has a connection to the abandoned Forerunner or to Quick’s disappearance. Neighbors say it’s scary not knowing who left the car there.

The Forerunner has been taken to an undisclosed location where it is going under a forensic exam.

“We’re not getting into specifics at this point because obviously this is a very active crime scene. We’re treating it that way at this point,” Geller said. “So now we’ve located the vehicle, we have to locate Captain Quick.”

Friends of Quick are worried his disappearance might mean another loss to a family that has already been through so much.

For decades, Quick has followed in his father’s footsteps as a volunteer with the reserve unit for the Waynesboro Police Department. His father passed away just last year. Now police are hoping for the best and doing all they can to find one of their own.

Sergeant Brian Edwards of the Waynesboro Police Department has known Kevin Quick for 20 years. He says the family has a long-standing tradition of sacrifice and honor.

“The Quick family is very rooted here in the Waynesboro Police Department, and in the Waynesboro community,” he stated.

Quick began volunteering in the reserve unit in 1990, taking after his dad, Ron.

“We feel the Quicks are part of our family here at the Waynesboro Police Department. That’s why this is all so troubling for us,” Edwards stated.

Quick worked as a supervisor at Invista for 18 years, according to Reo Hatfield, the chief of the Waynesboro Police Department reserve unit. After his father’s untimely death in 2013, Quick was doing all he could to start fresh and move forward.

“And he was very excited about being able to find a new job, and taking on a new challenge, and then also being able to share that time with the Police Department while he was off,” he stated.

But now that Quick’s vehicle was found in Louisa and investigators are searching for two unidentified men, friends and family can’t help but brace for the worst.

“The fact that someone would take him involuntarily or would want to hurt him – it just makes no sense. And that’s why we’re hoping this will come to a positive resolution for his mother and his siblings,” Edwards said.

The Waynesboro Police Department, Albemarle County Police Department, Charlottesville Police Department, Nelson County Sheriff’s Office, Louisa County Sheriff’s Office, Prince William County Police, and the FBI are all assisting in this investigation.

Local businesses are offering a reward of $8,000 for information leading to Quick’s whereabouts. If you have any information, call Virginia State Police at 434-352-7128 or #77 on your cell.

Person of Interest

Police are searching for a suspect who robbed the GameStop located at Hamburg Pavilion Monday evening.

Just after 5:30 p.m. police responded to the store where employees told them the suspect came in, produced a gun and demanded cash.

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The suspect fled the scene with the cash and no one was injured in the incident.

Police said the suspect’s face was covered with a camouflage scarf. He’s described as a white male, about 5’9” and wearing an orange baseball cap.

A inmate who walked away from the Blackburn Correctional facility in Lexington on Jan. 20 has been found and arrested.

Officials said Billy Rose was arrested on Jan. 31 in Pulaski County.

Rose, 36, was found in the Somerset area and booked into the Pulaski County Jail. Rose has also been charged with burglary third, criminal trespassing and receiving stolen property.

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Rose was serving a 15-year sentence for convictions out of Pulaski County, including burglary, robbery, and trafficking a control substance. He would have been eligible for parole in April of 2016.

The Mountain View Police Department’s drug sniffing dog, Zeus, helped officers locate 11 grams of heroin Friday evening, Jan. 31.

According to a post on the MVPD’s blog, the police arrested a 57-year-old Sunnyvale man in connection with the drug bust.

The police found and seized $4,880 in cash along with the heroin, which was wrapped in numerous individual plastic packets.

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Zeus helped officers locate the narcotics by alerting officers to a bedroom dresser where the drugs were stashed, according to the blog post.

The man was booked into San Jose Main Jail.

A body was found in the waters near the City Dock in Annapolis, police said.

Officials recovered the body on Saturday around 11:15 p.m. by a dock near the block of Prince George Street. Officials have identified the body to be that of Robert Stewart, 36, who was reported missing on December 6, 2013.

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He was last seen on December 5th near the City Dock, police said.