The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man they said used $2,100 in counterfeit money to buy three dogs.

A man told investigators he sold three Rottweiler dogs for $2,100 to another man through the Internet.

The two agreed to meet at a business parking lot in southern Laurel County to conduct the exchange on Monday around 11:20 p.m.

After the man who sold the dogs, he discovered that the money he had received was fake.

He received the entire amount in 50’s and 20’s.

The man who used the counterfeit money is described as a white male in his mid 20’s, approximately 6 feet tall, driving an older model green colored Jeep Grand Cherokee.

The bills used included 50’s with the same serial number as: JD22562500A, and 50’s with the serial number-JD44089303A.

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The 20’s were serial number-JD93627916C, and 20’s with serial number: JD31750773D.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office.

A man has been arrested after two Madison County women told police they had been held against their will for hours.

Justin Kavanaugh faces several charges including kidnapping and attempted rape.

The women told police, they had been at a club in Lexington over the weekend when they called Kavanaugh for a ride back to Richmond.

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One woman says she had taken a few drinks of gin when she started feeling sick. She says she doesn’t remember much after that and believes she was drugged.

The other woman told investigators Kavanaugh drove them around and refused to let them out of the car. He finally took them to an apartment where he allegedly kept them.

When they made it back to their home, police say Kavanaugh fondled one of the women.

According to court documents, a man charged with arson lit a house on fire with his estranged wife inside.

Arson investigators charged Charles Goldsberry, 47, with arson on Monday. According to court documents, witnesses spotted him crawling from underneath the porch of a home on East Second Street last Thursday night moments before the two people inside spotted flames. Goldsberry’s wife and another person escaped the home, but Lexington firefighter Jeremy Bruner suffered injuries when debris fell on him.

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“It’s upsetting anytime anyone sets a fire because it puts us at risk from the time the tone goes off to the time we get back in the station where we’re safe,” Lexington Fire Department Batt.Chief Mark Blankenship said. “But not only the fact that a firefighter was injured, but you also jeopardize the two occupants of the house.”

Bruner suffered cracked ribs.

Investigators say the fire apparently stemmed from a domestic dispute.

Goldsberry faces arson and wanton endangerment charges.

The Lexington Fire Department has determined the fire that broke out at a vacant duplex unit on Wilson Avenue, off Elm Tree Lane, Monday morning was intentionally set, fire officials said.

Firefighters said they saw heavy smoke and flames coming out the second floor of the unit when they arrived around 5:30 a.m. Monday morning.

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Fire officials said the fire started in the vacant unit, where they said it appeared someone had just moved out from. They say the damage was mostly contained to the vacant side of the building, but that it was extensive.

Donica Sweat lives in the unit next door in the same duplex with her three children. She said she smelled smoke, but couldn’t find the source. A neighbor knocked on her door and told her about the fire.

“My first instinct was to grab my kids,” she said. “I ran upstairs grabbed my kids and came out the house, moved my car.”

Officials have cut the source of power to Sweat’s home even though there’s not much damage on that side of the duplex. Sweat says she’ll be living in a family member’ house for the time being, while the fire department continues their investigation.

There were no reported injuries.

Investigators ask anyone with information regarding this fire to contact the Fire Investigations Bureau at Ph 859-231-5672 or leave a tip at arsontios@lexingtonky.gov.

In 2010, while visiting his daughter’s grave, Glen Brooks said that giving up looking for Valeri’s killer just wasn’t an option.

“I won’t let myself think that, because when you start thinking like that you’ve given up,” he said.

Sadly, Mr. Brooks died last February, never knowing who the monster was who stabbed Valeri more than 30 times after abducting her from a Versailles Thornton’, then dumping her nearly decapitated body on a remote road near Nonesuch, 23 years ago.

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A suspect was never officially named, though police took a look at another man’s DNA after serial killer Glen Rodgers claimed to have killed Valeri. There hasn’t been word on the results.

“My husband’s gut feeling, and mine too along with the family’s, is that it was someone who knew the area. You just don’t drive up to that area by mindlessly driving around,” said Valeri’s step-mom Carolyn Brooks.

Carolyn believes the investigation was botched from the beginning, but hopes her late husband now knows the truth.

“There’s a vicious killer out there someplace,” she said. “I’d be surprised if he hadn’t struck again.”

Police have labeled the case of a missing man here “critical” because he threatened to kill himself.

Police are looking for Manuel Hechavarria, 49, who has been missing since shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday.

Following a verbal argument with family members, Hechavarria grabbed a knife and threatened to kill himself, according to a news release issued Monday morning.

He left the area armed with a knife.

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Hechavarria is believed to be driving a green late-90s Plymouth Voyager van, which has minor collision damage to the front bumper.

Hechavarria, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 210 pounds, is listed as a “critical missing person” because of the suicide threat, said Sgt. Doug Imhof, spokesman for the Fontana Police Department.

Hechavarria was last seen wearing a black and orange zip-up jacket, a dark colored t-shirt and faded black jeans.

He wears his long hair in a poneytail, has a moustache, black prescription glasses and a glass right eye.

Lake County sheriff’s detectives have issued a Silver Alert for Alfonzo Green, 74, who signed himself out of the Leisure Manor assisted living facility in Minneola on Sunday and has failed to return.

Green vanished after leaving a note saying he was going to the store, detectives said. It is not believed he left in a vehicle and he reportedly was spotted at area businesses shortly after leaving.

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Detectives believe Green, who suffers from dementia and diabetes, may be attempting to get to Orlando.

He is described as being approximately 6 feet tall with a slim build and missing his front teeth. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a blue shirt and a brown cap.

Anyone who has seen him or knows of his whereabouts should call the Lake County Sheriff’s Office at 352-343-2101 or their police department.

Investigators with the Division of Fire have made an arrest in connection with the fire that injured a Lexington firefighter.

The investigation determined that Charles Goldsberry was responsible for intentionally starting the fire at 519 East Second Street.

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Goldsberry, 47, has been charged and arrested with one count of 1st Degree Arson and two counts of 1st Degree Wanton Endangerment. He has been placed in the Fayette County Detention Center.

Jeremy Bruner, the injured firefighter, was diagnosed with potential cracked or fractured ribs.

Family and friends of a University of Kentucky cook that seemingly vanished earlier this month are trying to get the word out in every way possible, including social media.

A page to “Find Alex Johnson” has been set up on Facebook to help in the search. His family hopes this will finally lead them to answers.

Monday marked 10 days since anyone has seen or heard from Alex Johnson. Lexington police say the circumstances behind his disappearance are “suspicious.”

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His family said the 32-year-old missed a work meeting in Lexington on Saturday, Dec. 21, and he didn’t show up to his family’s home in Bowling Green, two days later. According to police, he hasn’t used his cell phone since Friday Dec. 20, and there’s been no bank activity. His truck is still parked in front of his home on North Hanover.

The night of Dec. 20, Alex was apparently on the phone with his girlfriend, when there was a knock at the door. He hung up and never called back.

The story has received national attention, including the Huffington Post.

A prayer service will be held for Alex Monday night in Simpson County, on the Courthouse Square in downtown Franklin at 7 o’clock central time.

As of Monday morning, investigators said they have no new updates on this case.

If you have any information that could help in this investigation, give Lexington Police a call.

An Arizona woman is accused of trying to poison her four children, including one who died, and of stabbing her former husband, all on Christmas.

Casa Grande police say 35-year-old Connie Villa was arrested Sunday on suspicion of one count of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder.

According to police, the ex-husband called 911 after he was stabbed when he went to Villa’s residence. Officers found the body of 13-year-old Aniarael Macias, while Villa with stab wounds believed to have been self-inflicted.

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Autopsy and toxicology results are pending on the girl, believed to have been poisoned.

The three other children are in good condition and are now with their father’s family.

It’s not immediately known whether Villa has an attorney. A possible motive hasn’t been disclosed.