Liar Catchers followers, please be on the look out for UPS and FEDEX deliveries being stolen. All you need to do is snap a photo of the person taking the package, or the vehicle they get into after taking a package.

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Now is the time, for our community to work together to stop crime. Stealing boxes from anyone is bad for ALL. If you witness a suspect, contact the authorities or LiarCatchers and we will assist. Lets have a safe Holiday and chase criminals out of town

A woman who police say is responsible for a crash that killed one person and critically injured three others has been arrested and charged with murder.

Police say Cora Wilson was on drugs when she caused a crash on November 27th on Kentucky-80 in Laurel County. 5 people were sent to the hospital from that crash.

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One of those people, 58 year-old Darlene Woods, died from her injuries on December 7th.

Wilson was arrested Sunday evening and charged with murder, three counts of first-degree assault and driving under the influence.

Tulsa Police have uncovered another murder while investigating a quadruple killing last month, according to a news release.

Charles Gustaves Johnson, 67, has been arrested for the city’s 66th murder of the year after remains were uncovered this weekend and Johnson was found driving the missing man’s stolen vehicle.

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Police said they came across a tip while digging into the Nov. 23 murders of Charlie Dake, 34; Melissa Dake, 35; Glenda Harper, 54; and Tammy Brunson, 46. Records show Randy Ethridge lives in the house where the shooting took place and is the sole survivor.

Those four were found dead in a converted garage in the 1300 block of North New Haven on Nov. 23. Investigators said then the home was a known drug house and they believed the murders were related to methamphetamine dealings.

Since the quadruple murders, police and the Northern Oklahoma Violent Crimes Task Force actively have been stopping known users and abusers of meth to gain information.

They arrested Johnson this weekend after a separate tip led them to the skeletal remains of another man missing since October. Police said Johnson also was said to have been driving the missing man’s vehicle with a new license plate.

Detectives discovered remains in the woods in the 500 block of East 66th Street North this weekend.

Then they stopped Johnson, who in the missing man’s Buick, in the 2700 block of North Harvard Avenue and took him into custody.

Johnson has been booked for first-degree murder and possession of a stolen vehicle, Walker said.

Police still are looking for information involving the murder. If you have information, please call CrimeStoppers at 918-596-COPS. You can remain anonymous.

The search for a missing Plano man has ended after police found the body of Gregory Hugh Pierce inside his vehicle on Saturday evening.

David Tilley,  with Plano police, said it appears as if Pierce died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police say Pierce, was reported missing by his family and co-workers on December 11, but had last spoken with family on December 9, telling his sister he felt ill and was going to see a doctor.

Pierce never made that appointment and also has missed work without calling his employer.

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Plano police said a citizen who heard about the disappearance on the news was the person who found Pierce and called police.

Pierce leaves behind a 14-year-old daughter his sister says he absolutely adores.

Lexington Police ask for help in finding the man who robbed an Arby’s Restaurant Sunday morning.

Police say a man described to be black, with light skin, thin build and wearing a light jean jacket walked into the Arby’s on South Broadway just after 9:00 a.m. Sunday, demanded money with a gun and a ski mask.

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Officials say the man did get away with an unknown amount of cash, and was last seen leaving on foot, heading East on Legion Dr.

If you know any information that could lead to finding this man, you are asked to call Lexington Police.

A 40-year-old Carol Stream man was sentenced to 33 years in prison Friday for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl.

A jury found Antonio Penaflor guilty Oct. 31 of four counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child and two counts of criminal sexual abuse.

He was sentenced by DuPage County Judge George Bakalis and will have to serve 27 years before becoming eligible for parole.

Prosecutors said that in the fall of 2011, Penaflor assaulted his victim several times at her home, as well as at a Wood Dale hotel on her 13th birthday. She was the cousin of an acquaintance. Prosecutors said he had groomed her, via text messages, to be susceptible to abuse.

The acquaintance grew suspicious of the relationship and brought the girl to Carol Stream police, who investigated the charges with the DuPage County Children’s Center. Penaflor was arrested in February 2012.

He has been in the DuPage County jail since his arrest

Jeremiah Oliver, age five, from the state of Massachusetts, was last seen by his family on Sept. 14, yet the young child was just reported as missing last week. Reports being released to the public state that Massachusetts police are looking into Jeremiah’s disappearance as a probable homicide investigation.

A commissioner for the Massachusetts Dept. of Children and Families has reported that a social worker who was assigned to Jeremiah’s family had not been conducting the required in-person welfare checks that were to be held with the family.

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This specific social worker has been fired from the job, along with the social worker’s superior.

Meanwhile, the child’s father has stated he will never give up looking for his son. Masses of volunteers were out combing the streets of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, the town in which the boy lived in, in an effort to try and find him.

Jeremiah was last spotted in the fall. The boy’s mother Elsa Oliver, age 28, and a boyfriend of hers, Alberto L. Sierra Jr., age 23, have been accused with child abuse and are being held on these charges.

Oliver was found to be missing on Dec. 2, when a 7-year-old sister of his informed some school staff members, where she attended classes, that she was being abused by Sierra.

The search that was performed on Saturday was planned by social media outlets by members of the child’s family and numerous supporters. It was not endorsed by Massachusetts State or local police. However, there were quite a few Fitchburg Police Department officers on stand-by in case any possible evidence was discovered by the volunteers. Police had originally attempted to discourage the search; because they were fearful a hoard of inexperienced search party volunteers might disrupt, obscure or even possibly destroy valued and needed evidence.

Standing in a parking lot across the street from where his son lived, Jeremiah’s father, Jose Oliver, stated that he was holding out hope that his son would be found.

He said that his wife and her boyfriend did not own a car, so he believed that if they did something to the child, Jeremiah would be around the area, Jose explained. He was wearing a shirt that had the face of his son on it. The word “DADDY” was printed on the back. The elder Oliver added that he hoped they found something because he wanted to find his son.

He expressed much gratitude toward the roughly 75 volunteers who had shown up to help in the search. Most of them did not even know the family.

A judge had ordered Elsa Oliver to undertake a mental evaluation earlier in the week. But Jose Oliver stated he did not believe his wife was incompetent in any way.

He said that he has been married to her for eight years. She always made sure the kids went to school and were properly fed. Oliver also stated that Elsa was always playing with the children. He believes she is sane.

Volunteers said a prayer for the young boy, and then spread apart in the neighboring woods. They were poking at melting snow packs with broken branches. One group examined the culvert located inside a hill behind the family’s house. They did not find anything. Jeremiah’s uncle, Sandrino Oliver, ended up leaving the tunnel crying and screaming from anguish. Another search team walked along close by railroad tracks, pulling apart the heavy brush and also digging through piles of dead leaves and mud. They also found nothing.

Some of the Oliver family was upset at the Massachusetts State Police for not bringing in any search dogs to help the volunteers. Other volunteers were beginning to protest in anger. They held up signs and let out loud jeers when a State Police cruiser went by. One individual even threw a snowball at the car.

David Procipio, who is a Massachusetts State Police spokesperson, refused to give any comments on the case, but stated that state troopers to attempting to try and find the boy. He added the investigation is being worked around the clock. He also said that a State Police K-9 unit had already searched the region around Jeremiah’s house early Saturday morning and that State Police were sensitive to the volunteer search effort.

Many vehicles that went past the search parties honked horns to show support. Some stopped in order to leave stuffed toys, candles and flowers at an improvised memorial which was created.

After many hours of unsuccessful searching, the family reunited to compare where they all had looked.

Jeremiah’s uncle was listening quietly as his family spoke. It was obvious he was thinking hard about his young nephew, and the child only last seen by his family on Sept. 14.

State police have issued a missing person alert for a 27-year-old Jewett City man who was reported missing Friday.

Larry Cloutier, described as a white male with brown hair and blue eyes, is 5-foot-11-inches tall and weighs 145 pounds, according to the state police’s Silver Alert. He was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and a black hat.

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Anyone with information is asked to contact state police in the Troop E barracks at (860) 848-6500.

A Kansas woman admits she stole more than $100,000 from three co-workers at a Department of Agriculture office in Kansas City.

Forty-nine-year-old Paula Steen, of Overland Park, Kansas, pleaded guilty Wednesday in a wire fraud and identity theft scheme. Prosecutors say the former information technology specialist for the Farm Service Agency took at total of about $103,000 from her co-workers.

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The Kansas City Star reports (http://bit.ly/1cTluFA ) Steen admitted that one of her victims was legally blind. She allegedly charged $57,693 on credit accounts belonging to that co-worker. She repaid some of that but took another $48,171 from the same worker.

As part of her plea bargain, Steen agreed that she should receive a longer sentence because she took advantage of a vulnerable victim.

Six enrolled members of the Navajo Nation were arrested last week on suspicion of stabbing a woman repeatedly, slicing her throat and leaving her to die near the Bisti Highway in October, according to the FBI.

A criminal complaint unsealed Dec. 13 charges Patrick Benally, 26, Justin Benally, 26, Lasheena Jacquez, 27, Mariah Benally, 21, Joni Eaglefeather, 24, and Scott Thompson, 27, with murder, kidnapping and aiding and abetting in connection to the slaying of a woman.

Prosecutors dismissed all charges against Joni Eaglefeather on Dec. 16, saying in a motion it was in the interest of justice, according to court documents.

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The victim is identified in court documents as Jane Doe 1. The documents state the victim was the subject of a Farmington police missing person investigation prior to her death.

Farmington police Detective Lt. Darin Hardy said Gabrielle Joe, 28, was the subject of a Farmington police missing person investigation in November.

A death notice sent to The Daily Times by Desert View Funeral Home of Shiprock states Joe died Dec. 10, and her funeral is Dec. 24. With a missing person case, the date of death printed in a death notice is often the date that a person was pronounced dead by a medical examiner or other official.

Hardy said the FBI has not informed police that the agency has positively identified the victim in the homicide case. Farmington’s investigation into Joe’s disappearance is pending.

An FBI spokesman did not identify the victim. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico stated that under the Department of Justice’s policy, the office cannot identify a victim.

The FBI recovered the woman’s body Dec. 10 after a woman identified in court documents as Jane Doe 2 told police about the crime.

On Oct. 23, the defendants, the deceased and the witness were at a Farmington house where they smoked and injected methamphetamine, FBI Special Agent Vanessa Bassett wrote in an affidavit. Patrick Benally, who was wanted by the FBI at the time in connection to a shooting in Fruitland, was acting paranoid, Bassett wrote in the affidavit.

Justin Benally told the group they shouldn’t let the victim leave because she would contact a rival drug dealer known as “T-Bone,” according to the affidavit.

The affidavit states that Patrick Benally and Thompson then tied the woman up with sheets and duct tape, and Patrick Benally carried the woman to a vehicle. The group drove out County Road 7100 southwest of Farmington city limits onto Navajo Nation land, according to the court document.

The FBI’s witness said Justin Benally stripped the woman’s clothes off while she begged for her life and said she had children, according to the affidavit.

The witness told the FBI the woman was crouched over on the ground covering herself when Jacquez took a large knife from Patrick Benally and stabbed the woman in the back and the head until the knife bent, according to the affidavit.

Justin Benally then allegedly took the knife, pulled the woman’s head back by the hair and sliced her throat, according to the affidavit.

After that, the group then tossed the woman off a ledge and started to throw rocks on her, according to the affidavit.

The witness said the victim “was still making sounds similar to those like a sheep when it is slaughtered as the rocks fell on her,” Bassett wrote in the report.

An autopsy showed the woman was stabbed 16 times, according to the affidavit.

The victim’s mother reported her missing on Nov. 19 and said she hadn’t seen her daughter since Oct. 15, according to the FBI.

Farmington police investigated her disappearance until Jane Doe 2 contacted a police detective about the stabbing, and police turned the investigation over the FBI, according to the affidavit.

A Farmington police news release on Dec. 2 said Joe was last seen in mid-October.

Several of the people accused in the fatal stabbing were allegedly involved in other recent violent crimes in the area.

San Juan County Sheriff Ken Christesen said repeat offenders and people with methamphetamine addictions awaiting felony trials are a concern for law enforcement. And he said the FBI murder case and Farmington police’s case against Mark Hinojos, an alleged methamphetamine dealer who was charged with second-degree murder this week in an unrelated case, highlight that problem.

“They were able to skirt justice,” he said. “It’s tragic it got to the point where (the homicide suspects) could actually take someone’s life.”

Thompson and Jacquez, along with Ashlyn Benally, 19, were arrested Nov. 1 on suspicion of assaulting and robbing a 65-year-old woman on her way home from buying groceries.

Ashlyn Benally’s charges were dismissed Nov. 5, according to court documents.

Thompson was convicted for kidnapping and sexual assault at trial in May 2008. He also has three prior misdemeanor battery convictions.

Patrick Benally has been in custody since his arrest in early November on suspicion of shooting a Fruitland woman in the face in October, about two week’s before he was involved in the alleged homicide.

He has waived his detention hearing in that case, according to a federal court website.

Patrick Benally was convicted of a misdemeanor assault on a peace officer in magistrate court in April.

Christesen said there appeared to be common theme among the defendants.

“They were all caught with meth,” he said. “One of our rights is to be able to post a bond … but we’re not doing them any favors by (letting them out on bond) because they are going to keep committing felonies because they are addicts.”