A Troy man who paid $500 to try to arrange a sexual encounter with a 12-year-old girl will spend the next 10 years in federal prison.

Michael Heppelle, 42, will also face 15 years supervised release following his sentencing Tuesday in U.S. District Court.

On Oct. 3, 2012, Heppelle made plans to meet his would-be victim — unaware the person who set up the meeting was a federal informant, court papers show.

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Heppelle, using the fake name “Bob,” spoke with informant spoke on the phone and arranged give the informant $500. In exchange, the informant would provide Heppelle with a 12-year-old girl, the documents said.

They set up a location in Rensselaer County to meet. That’s where investigators arrested Heppelle, who was found carrying the $500 and condoms. He later admitted his plot, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit.

He pleaded guilty in September to attempted online enticement of a minor.

His attorney, Terence L. Kindlon, sent a pre-sentencing memo to Chief Judge Gary Sharpe asking for a lesser sentence, noting his client has no prior record. He stated that Heppelle, a 1991 graduate of Colonie High School, is the father of two children. In 2010, he noted, Heppelle taught pre-school at Trinity Christian Daycare in Albany.

Kindlon wrote that Heppelle “recognizes that he has a serious problem with his attraction to 12- and-13-year-old girls” but is “extremely remorseful, and is thankful that there was no actual minor in this case.”

The Rensselaer County sheriff’s office also was involved in the case.

On Wednesday night the Phelps County Sheriff’s Department issued an Endangered Person Advisory for four-year-old Cassandra Robertson. Robertson is a white female who weighs 40 pounds and stands 2 feet and 6 inches tall. She has brown hair, blue eyes and was last seen wearing a gray ‘Hello Kitty’ shirt that has a zipper.

A release indicates that Cassandra has an eye infection that requires medication and she’s suspected to have been taken by her mother, Nikie Robertson. She was said to have been taken on Monday from the 11800 block of State Rd. V in Rolla. Police say that Robertson has a history of suicidal tendencies and substance abuse.

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She may have taken the child either to the state of Colorado or Las Cruces, New Mexico, but is currently unknown what route they may be traveling. They may be in a 2006 silver Nissan Quest with Missouri license plates bearing: FG2D5J

Robertson is described as a 39-year-old white female who weighs 145 pounds and stands 5’6. She has brown hair and green eyes and was last seen wearing a black shirt and blue jeans.

Anyone with information on their whereabouts is urged to immediately dial 911 or contact the sheriff’s department at (573) 426-3860. An Amber Alert has not been issued for Cassandra, to read about the differences between Endangered Person Advisories and Amber Alerts, please visit this link.

Police in Corbin are actively looking for a man after his father was shot Wednesday afternoon.

Corbin Police Department responded to a shots fired call at Gulf Trailer Park and found William Taylor shot in his side. He was transported to Baptist Health for surgery.

William’s 25-year-old son, Eric Taylor, is listed as a person of interest in the shooting and is currently at-large.

According to police, Eric is known to be driving a white 1997 Jeep Wrangler with a black hardtop with an American flag tire cover over the spare. He is believed to be armed with a handgun.

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Anyone with any information on Eric Taylor or a Jeep Wrangler matching that description is urged to contact the Corbin Police Department at 606-528-1122.

A 77-year-old Stanly County man is charged with nine counts of child sex offenses regarding an alleged incident involving a victim under the age of 13.

On December 21, investigators with the Stanly County Sheriff’s Office took a report regarding the sexual assault of a child under the age of 13. A suspect, 77-year-old Wayne Arland Kent, was developed through the course of the investigation.

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Kent is charged with three counts each of rape of a child, indecent liberties with a child and crime against nature.

He was arrested Saturday and booked in to the Stanly County Detention Center under a $325,000 bond.

Kent’s first district court date is set for February 2.

Authorities released the name of the man whose body was found Tuesday dismembered in trash bags inside a vehicle.

Dorchester County Coroner Chris Nisbet identified the remains as Roy Allen Steward, 54, of Bacons Bridge Road.

On Tuesday afternoon, Nisbet was notified by Summerville Police Department that there might be a body in the trunk of a car that had been towed after the driver was arrested for a driving offense, according to Nisbet.

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After inspecting the bags, Nisbet said, it was “obvious the contents of the bags were human remains.”

The remains appeared to be those of Steward, who had been reported missing on Jan. 14 by his brother, who lives in Texas, Nisbet said.

Summerville Police Capt. Jon Rogers said Steward’s roomate, Nancy Bentley, 53, provided false statements to investigators involving the missing person’s case.

A car Bentley had been driving was found at a tow truck company lot by police on Jan. 21, according to Rogers.

Police arrested Bentley at the mobile home she lived in with Steward on Wednesday morning. Neighbors said she was taken away by EMS. Police confirmed she was hospitalized, but Rogers said he did not know why.

Summerville police had reportedly visited the man’s home in an area mobile home park to conduct a welfare check some time ago, but found no trace of him or signs of wrongdoing, a source familiar with the investigation said.

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Two men inside a Lexington home managed to keep two would-be intruders from pushing their way inside late Tuesday night.

Police say two men knocked on the door of a home on Winter Garden around 10 p.m. One of the men inside opened the door and the duo tried to push their way in. The men in the home managed to keep the suspects out. The two men eventually gave up and ran off.

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Police described the suspects as two black men wearing all black. One of the men had a tattoo on his face.

The residents were not hurt.

Kentucky State Police are investigating a bomb threat that was called into the Russell County Judge Executives office Tuesday around 11:00 a.m.

Police say a man called the office and said there was a bomb in the courthouse. The caller did not say which courthouse in Russell County, so both buildings were evacuated by the Russell County Sheriff’s Department.

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KSP and K-9 Units responded to the scene and cleared both buildings, unable to find any device.

The case remains under investigation.

Monica Nanette Hernandez, 41, of Fresno was almost a millionaire – for a time.

Ms. Hernandez has pleaded guilty to filing false income tax returns that saw her getting more than $175,000 in refunds from the IRS. She had filed false returns for ten times as much.

She’s also admitted to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, says U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner.

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According to court documents, Ms. Hernandez worked for the IRS Service Center in Fresno as a part-time data entry clerk. While employed in that capacity, she filed three tax returns for herself claiming excessive federal tax withholdings as a result of falsely claimed interest and dividend income.

In addition, in April 2010, Ms. Hernandez stole 68 tax returns from the IRS Service Center and filed fraudulent tax returns using information contained on the stolen tax returns to claim excessive federal tax withholdings. In total, Hernandez attempted to claim more than $1,745,000 in fraudulent tax refunds.

“IRS Criminal Investigation has made investigating refund fraud and identity theft a top priority,” says IRS Special Agent-in-Charge José Martinez, “especially in those situations where individuals with positions of trust commit fraud by taking taxpayer information to file fraudulent tax returns in the name of the stolen identity to obtain a larger tax refund. This resulted in significant harm to those taxpayers whose identities were stolen, as well as a monetary loss against the U.S. Treasury.”

Ms. Hernandez is to be sentenced by U.S. District Judge Anthony Ishii on April 14 when she will face a possible maximum statutory penalty for filing false income tax returns of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine, a maximum statutory penalty for wire fraud of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine and a minimum mandatory term of two years in prison to be served consecutively with any other sentence up to a maximum statutory penalty of 15 years in prison for aggravated identity theft.

A trial date has been set for a Scott County woman charged in connection with the death of her toddler.

The Abilene Reporter-News reports Tiffany Klapheke’s trial is set for Jan 27.

She’s charged with injury to a child in the August 2012 death of Tamryn Klapheke.The initial autopsy shows Tamryn was severely malnourished, dehydrated and had suffered chemical burns from her own waste.

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Tamryn’s two sisters suffered similar injuries and were hospitalized.

Klapheke’s husband was deployed in the Middle East at the time. She says she was too stressed to care for their three children.