The second of a Lafayette-duo wanted on charges of child sex trafficking is behind bars this morning.

Darneesha Lashay Martin was arrested by the Houston Police Department after what police are calling “an extensive and coordinated search” by Louisiana State Police, Texas rangers and the Houston Police Department.

Martin is charged with Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes and Promoting Prostitution.

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Police originally asked for the public help in locating Martin and her partner, Alcoby Con LaSalle, on Nov. 26 as part of the state-wide “Operation Carpe Diem” that targeted illegal narcotics trafficking, illegal weapons violations, theft, fugitive warrants, human trafficking, juvenile pornography and sex offender violations.

LaSalle turned himself in on Nov. 27 without incident.

Martin is currently being held in a Houston jail awaiting extradition to the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center.

The Portage County Sheriff says deputies have located a man sought in connection with a death investigation.

Sheriff David W. Doak says John R. Fox, 34, of Portage County was taken into custody without incident with the help of Ravenna Police on Friday night.

Sheriff Doak says Fox was wanted in connection with the murder of a missing person from Alliance, Ohio.

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Alliance police say Justin Earley, 22, of Alliance was reported missing on December 31st.

According to police Earley was last seen leaving a home in Canton and was headed to Kent.

The investigation which included obtaining subpoena information for phone and email records, as well as subpoena information for a Craigslist ad, reportedly led investigators to develop a suspect in Earley’s disappearance.

A search warrant was obtained and served at Fox’s residence in Portage County Friday.

Alliance police say detectives along with the Portage County Sheriff’s Office discovered a body inside the home believed to be Justin Earley.

Investigators say they believe Earley was killed prior to the missing report being made by Alliance Police.

Fox is currently being held at the Portage Jail with no bond. He is charged with murder.

Fox is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday at the Ravenna Courthouse.

A man the FBI said tried to recruit a clan of teenage girls over which he could rule has been captured after a search that lasted 15 years.

The search started in 1998, when officials say Daniel Clement Chafe, now 55, was reported to have fallen out of a fishing boat just days before he was supposed to appear in court in Douglas County, Oregon.

On Wednesday, Chafe – also known as Stryder Styarfyr – was taken into custody by the FBI, Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office and Montana Highway Patrol on an federal Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution warrant in Bozeman.

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“Chafe was allegedly recruiting minor females between the ages of 14 and 16 in order to form what he called the ‘Cobalt Clan,'” the FBI said. “His reported goal was to have sex with these young girls in order to produce a large number of children over which he could rule.”

State police detectives, working with the FBI, have been looking for Chafe since he failed to appear for a trial on September 23, 1998, in Douglas County Circuit Court for multiple counts of rape, sodomy and sex abuse of girls ages 14-16.

The initial investigation the sex abuse charges was conducted by detectives from the Sheriff’s office and OSP Criminal Investigations Division.

Officials say the investigation started with two juvenile female victims, but authorities say more victims were identified.

The FBI released this information on it’s wanted poster:

Daniel Clement Chafe is wanted for rape, sexual abuse, and sodomy in Roseburg, Oregon. Chafe was allegedly recruiting minor females between the ages of 14 and 16 in order to form what he called the “Cobalt Clan”. His reported goal was to have sex with these young girls in order to produce a large number of children over which he could rule. At the time that he was allegedly recruiting and having sex with these girls, Chafe was also married.

Before failing to appear in court, Chafe was reported to be living in New Mexico, and reportedly went on a fishing trip ten days earlier with a friend in Washington State.

The friend told police that Chafe fell out of the boat into the Snake River and was missing.

A search failed to find him, and he remained a fugitive since his failure to appear in court.

Since 1998, the search for Chafe was the subject of several television shows including America’s Most Wanted.

Police say he was considered for the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted list.

Authorities say a detective with OSP recently found that Chafe was living in Montana using an alias.

Chafe is being held in Montana pending extradition to Oregon.

He is charged by authorities in Douglas County with 6 counts of third degree rape, 5 counts of third degree sex abuse and 7 counts of third degree sodomy.

Police used a liquor store scotch purchase to track down the man they think stole electronics from an unlocked car Tuesday.

William Conner McColm, 22, was arrested on suspicion of felony identity theft. A search warrant also lists the charges of felony trespassing and misdemeanor theft, but as of Friday morning, the Routt County District Attorney’s office had not filed official charges.

Police were called after a Steamboat man noticed items belonging to his wife were missing from his car after going to a dinner party in the 2300 block of Ski Trail Lane. The missing items included a $1,000 laptop, $600 tablet, six flash drives and several credit cards.

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The woman contacted her credit card companies and learned one of her credit cards had been used at a liquor store at 2300 Mount Werner Circle.

Sgt. Rich Brown said an officer went to the liquor store and discovered the card had been used to buy a $72 bottle of scotch. The liquor store employee had swiped the buyer’s driver’s license, and the driver’s license number was printed on the receipt.

After looking up the number, police determined it belonged to McColm. The clerk said the driver’s license photo was of the man who bought the scotch. His signature also matched the one on the liquor store receipt.

According to an arrest warrant, police found McColm at school at Colorado Mountain College, and McColm admitted to stealing the electronics from the car.

“You don’t have to get a search warrant,” McColm told police, according to the search warrant. “The computers are there, and I’ll given you consent for you to get them.”

McColm later told police he left his home to get ice cream, and he noticed a car parked in an unusual place. It was still there when he returned. The warrant states McColm opened the unlocked car door, reached in and grabbed a bag. He then admitted to police that he bought the bottle of scotch using the stolen credit card, the warrant states.

McColm was released from custody after posting a $5,000 bond. He is due back in court at 8:30 a.m. March 18.

McColm could not be reached for comment Friday.

Police have found a Lexington connection to an Ohio double homicide investigation.

Late Wednesday night, Lexington police found the SUV murder suspect Brandon Thomas was believed to be driving after two execution style murders in Ohio, which means, he may be in Kentucky.

Just last week, Cincinnati police say Thomas shot and killed Adam Bostic and Betty Thomas, two people who’d been giving him a place to hide out when, investigators say, he fled to Cincinnati after being named a person of interest in the murder of Curtis Simmons outside Diva’s Gentleman’s Club in Lexington in November.

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Lexington police arrested another man in the Diva’s shooting, but Brandon Thomas was included in the set of photos released by authorities in Lexington.

A chef at the Windy Corner Market noticed the vehicle and thought the green Ford Explorer that had been parked in a gravel lot outside the restaurant for several days seemed suspicious. Lexington police came out Wednesday night and confirmed it was the same vehicle the 29-year-old was believed to have taken off in after the murders.

“Brandon and some other people planned an executed a home invasion robbery where they tied up two adults in the house, shot them both and killed them,” said Detective Colin Vaughn with Cincinnati police.

In addition to having suspected involvement in the murder at Diva’s, Thomas has an extensive criminal history in Lexington. He’s also known to have some family in town.

Cincinnati police warn that he is likely armed.

If you see him, call police immediately.

A Clark County man accused of beating his roommate to death pleaded guilty in court.

Andrew Williamson is charged with killing Joseph Jones in September of 2012 when the two got in an argument.

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Williamson was caught trying to load Jones’ body into his truck.

He is facing 20 years in prison and will be sentenced in February.

A Flint area man who went missing Wednesday after dropping his wife off at a downtown Grand Rapids hospital was seen Thursday in East Grand Rapids’ Gaslight Village retail area, the man’s family says.

Denise Shaheen, daughter of Robert Farthing, 78, of Mundy Township, said an employee at Edward Jones, an investment company at 705 Bagley Ave. SE, told investigators she was “sure” it was Farthing who stopped in Thursday asking for directions to Blodgett Hospital.

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Security staff at Blodgett Hospital, located on Wealthy Street, now are monitoring nearby parking lots for any signs of him. Shaheen said many of her family members are searching East Grand Rapids Friday for any signs of her father.

Farthing and his wife were in West Michigan this week visiting Shaheen’s family in Coopersville. He dropped his wife off Wednesday at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital to visit a family member there. He told her he was hungry and might stop by a nearby McDonald’s restaurant.

Farthing was expected to pick his wife up in about an hour and a half, but he never returned.

Farthing was seen at Blodgett Hospital at about 3:45 p.m. Wednesday. The person who saw him there reported he appeared confused and asked for help with directions, Grand Rapids police Detective Sgt. Kristen Rogers said.

It’s not clear if Farthing may be confused about which Spectrum Health facility he was supposed to return to.

The Grand Rapids Police Department’s detective bureau is involved and investigators have contacted police in other parts of the state in case Farthing decided to try and head back to his home in the Flint area, Rogers said.

Shaheen initially thought her father had no cash on him, but now said it appears he may still have had about $50 leftover from money withdrawn from a bank account earlier in the week.

Farthing had not used his debit or credit cards, Shaheen said.

Farthing is about 6 feet tall and weighs about 250 pounds. He was last seen wearing a white winter coat, black pants and a black wool driving hat.

Farthing drives a white 2005 four-door Buick Lacrosse with the handicap license plate of 5798G2. The car has a cream-colored interior.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts can reach Grand Rapids police detectives at 456-3380.

A Johnson County man has been arrested on multiple counts of possessing child pornography.

Kevin King, 22, was arrested Wednesday afternoon after a forensic exam on computers taken from his home discovered more than 3,000 images depicting the sexual exploitation of children.

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King is charged with four counts of possession of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor, a class D felony. Each count is punishable by one to five years in prison.

A Scott County teenager reported missing this week has been found in Indiana.

17-year-old Ashley Britton was found in northern Indiana Friday after she was involved in a car accident. Officials say she wasn’t hurt in the crash.

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Ashley went missing Monday. Police believe she was with an adult man she met online. That man was not at the scene of the crash when police arrived.

Ashley’s mother says she believes her daughter was manipulated into leaving.

There is no word on any possible charges against that man.

The Calvert County Sheriff’s Office is attempting to locate a critically missing person, 28-year-old Matthew Holmes. Police said Holmes has been diagnosed as bi-polar and suffers from depression. Holmes believes he is a “Star Wars” character and is afraid of guns and police officers, the sheriff’s office stated in a release.

Holmes was last known to be operating his silver 2008 Ford Focus, with Maryland registration 7BC9569. His credit card was last used at a Super 8 motel, located in Lexington Park, this morning, police said.

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Anyone with information regarding Holmes’ whereabouts is asked to contact Det. Nick DeFelice of the Calvert Investigative Bureau at 410-535-2800; refer to case no. MPR 14-2856. Holmes has been entered into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC).