Police in Bullitt County arrested an 18-year-old after he reportedly threatened to kill kids at an elementary school.

Officers arrested Nicholas Bain Saturday. Police say he told a neighbor he would kill him and other children that go to Old Mill Elementary School. Officers say they found the threats credible enough to file charges.

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School officials say they think Bain made the threats for attention.

Police charged Bain with terroristic threatening.

Officials say a man was shot to death at a Lexington gas station Monday afternoon.

The incident happened just before 3 p.m. on Alexandria Drive. Police say the victim was a clerk at a Marathon gas station and was shot during a robbery. Police say the victim, who they believe was in his 40s, suffered a gunshot wound to his left chest.

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Police say the suspect is a male white, wearing a camo jacket or fleece and a dark toboggan hat with red ear flaps. He was last seen in grey Nissan headed toward Versailles Road.

He was also wearing blue jeans, black gloves and grey sneakers. He has a thin to medium build.

Lines twisting through airports, buses packed with university students, and backed up traffic on every major highway – there’s nothing quite like traveling during the holiday season. When you’re sitting around a warm fire and eating turkey with family, it’s hard to imagine that anything can go wrong. Unfortunately, the holiday season is also a great one for identity theft. You’re traveling, constantly using your credit card to purchase things, and dealing with general holiday stress. Any one of those factors can make it difficult to protect your identity, dealing with all three at once makes it even harder.

The Risk of Identity Theft

In America, an identity is stolen every three seconds. That means by the time it takes you to finish this article, at least 15 people have had their identity stolen. Some people don’t see this as a big deal – that’s what insurance is for, right? Unfortunately, while various types of insurance policies can protect you, you’ll still have to deal with the aftermath. In fact, the average victim spends over 165 hours dealing with accounts that have been fraudulently created in their name.

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When your identity is stolen, the thief will use the information to create new accounts – particularly credit cards – and modify existing ones. Clever identity thieves may go completely undetected, and it takes the average person six months before they learn that their identity has been stolen. By that point, their credit rating has plummeted and they run the risk of having their assets seized. Here are three tips to help you avoid identity theft this holiday season.

Track Your Important Documents

When you travel, you need to carry important documents. Your passport, your ID and your credit cards may all make an appearance on a longer journey. Unfortunately, each of these can be used by those looking to steal your identity. Before you travel, perform a routine check to make sure every important document is where it should be. Ideally, store these documents and items in the same place each time you travel – that way you’ll know where to look.

Video Security

You wouldn’t go away for the holidays and leave your house unlocked, would you? Unfortunately, identity thieves don’t need access to your home – forget to tell someone to collect your mail and they’ll take advantage. Use video security to act as a deterrent – if you were a thief, would you try to rob the house that does have a camera or the one that doesn’t? Would you risk stealing the mail, knowing your face would be seen?

Check Your Credit Card Balance

Credit cards are a prime target for identity theft. If the thief’s goal is money, what better way than to steal someone’s credit card information right around the holiday season? Can you remember off the top of your head which stores you went to the afternoon you did all of your shopping? You need to keep your receipts and compare your online credit card statement with those receipts. Any discrepancies should be reported immediately.

Implement the above three tips and you’ll have an enjoyable and identity-safe holiday season.

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A Syracuse man will spend more than three years in prison for an identify theft scheme.

A U.S. District Judge sentenced 41-year-old Maurice Pugh on Friday for aggravated identity theft and access device fraud.

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Pugh and two others were arrested by the Secret Service last year for using stolen IDs to create fake credit cards which affected 400 people and 59 financial institutions.

On top of jail time, Pugh is also ordered to pay $70,000 in restitution.

The other two men, 38-year-old Kareem Highsmith of Syracuse and 28-year-old Glenn Francis of Brooklyn were previously sentenced.

Police are on the hunt for a 31-year-old Washington state man after finding his 5-month-old son, who was snatched late last month from Child Protective Services, multiple news organizations report.

Kasey McKernan is being sought by the Clark County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI, among other agencies, according to KOIN.com

On Oct. 27, a CPS team arrived at the Vancouver residence to take the child — Jaxon Smith — in execution of a court order.

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Officials tell Fox 12 that McKernan assaulted a CPS worker and fled with his son in a pickup truck, driven by Summer Smith, the boy’s mother.

Smith, 36, was arrested Saturday at a Vancouver home, on outstanding warrants. Her child was taken into custody, according to KATU.com.

Police also arrested John Maxwell, 49, who was at the home where Smith was said to be hiding.

Smith’s mother says that her daughter had missed drug treatment meetings, but that she would never do anything to harm her child. She just couldn’t bare turning the boy over.

“Please don’t be down on Summer. She wants to keep her baby and she’s sorry for her past,” Vickie Anderson, Smith’s Stepmother, told KPTV in Oregon.

“She’s scared, she’s terrified … and she knows she’s blown it, but she is willing to go to treatment if she can just have her baby.”

The Vancouver Police Department is asking anyone with information on McKernan’s whereabouts to call the Tip Line at 360-487-7399.

Children prostituting themselves for drugs. A child under 18 stripping for money. A guardian offering to sell a child for money or place the child in a prostitution ring.

Those allegations surfaced in cases reviewed this year by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. The cases also were part of the cabinet’s first Kentucky Child Victims of Human Trafficking report to the Legislative Research Commission.

From June 26 through Oct. 18, child protection officials in Kentucky investigated 20 allegations of human trafficking involving 25 children, the report said. The annual report is required by the Human Trafficking Victim’s Rights Act, a state law that went into effect this year.

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“It tells us that Kentucky is unfortunately a state that is rife with human trafficking,” said Gretchen Hunt, staff attorney for the Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs. But Hunt said the report also shows that the new law is working to raise awareness and respond to children who are trafficked by non-caretakers — by boyfriends, by pimps, by people other than family members.

The big change that the new law brings is that the victims are no longer viewed as criminals, and Cabinet for Health and Family Services child protection officials can help them even if the perpetrator trafficking them is not a family member, said Hunt.

The report — and the new law — capture information that would have slipped through the cracks before, said Marissa Castellanos, human trafficking program manager with Catholic Charities of Louisville. The Cabinet likely would have heard about the six cases in the report involving a child’s caretaker, Castellanos said. But cases involving the 14 allegations in the report in which the known perpetrator was not in a caretaker role might not have come to the attention of child protection officials, she said.

Kentucky’s first report on child victims of human trafficking said the allegations investigated involving children 17 and younger included:

■ Victims prostituting themselves in exchange for drugs.

■ A victim having a pimp.

■ A victim stripping for money.

■ A guardian offering to sell the victim for money or into a prostitution ring.

■ Victims working as prostitutes in a massage parlor.

■ A victim from another state running away.

■ Victims advertising for prostitution.

Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which people profit from the control and exploitation of others, according to the website for the Polaris Project, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that fights human trafficking. As defined under federal law, victims of human trafficking include children involved in the sex trade, adults who are coerced or deceived into commercial sex acts, and anyone forced into forms of “labor or services,” such as domestic workers held in a home or farm workers forced to labor against their will. The factors that each of these situations have in common are elements of force, fraud, or coercion. That control is tied to inducing someone into commercial sex acts, or labor or services, the website said.

Hunt says what distinguishes child sex trafficking from child sexual abuse is that something of commercial value is exchanged, whether it be drugs, rent, food or money. The buyer of the sex is culpable, and often a third party is selling the child, Castellanos said.

Castellanos said child trafficking can also involve labor exploitation with force, fraud or coercion.

In the report, three of the allegations were found to be unsubstantiated. In those cases, there was no evidence found that the children met the legal definition of a human trafficking victim. Two pending cases appeared to have enough evidence to substantiate allegations against a caretaker.

Fourteen cases were still in the early stages of investigation.

The report issued Nov. 1 did not provide specific details of the cases. But it said 17 of the victims were 14 years old or older — the youngest was 1. An unknown perpetrator was alleged in six cases, and there was one foreign-born victim.

Prior to the new law, anyone under 18 engaged in commercial sex was defined as a victim of trafficking, said Hunt. But children were still being criminally charged with prostitution, and there was not a good system to serve victims, Hunt said.

The report said Kentucky has some of the strongest, most comprehensive “safe harbor” laws, which protect child victims of human trafficking, in the nation.

Kentucky is described in the report as the only state to ensure that all child victims of human trafficking are not charged with prostitution or status offenses — offenses that are crimes only because of a juvenile’s age — committed in connection to being trafficked.

If a child is a victim of human trafficking, the law now says that they shall not be charged or adjudicated guilty with status offenses such as truancy or running away that are connected to the human trafficking, said Hunt. People who buy houses or property with money they made from trafficking children are now subject to having that property seized, Castellanos said.

Public defenders and judges are attending training sessions on the new law, said Hunt.

Due to the newness of the laws, the infrastructure to provide services to victims is still under development, the report said.

Kentucky is “doing a good job so far,” Castellanos said, by identifying the cases so that the Cabinet can follow up and help victims.

The report details the Cabinet’s efforts to ensure the safety of child victims, collaboration among multiple agencies during the course of investigations and response and continuing efforts to better serve victims.

“These are children traumatized by one of the worst crimes you can imagine,” said Hunt, “and they deserve to be treated as victims rather than criminals.”

Prince George’s County police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a missing woman.

Police say 58-year-old Glorida Nadine King was last seen in the 3300 block of Walters Lane on Dec. 8, 2013. She is considered a critical missing person because she suffers from dementia.

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King is described as an African-American female, standing 5 feet tall, weighing 140 pounds, with shoulder length gray and black hair. Police say she was last seen wearing a black jacket, red pajama pants, and white slip-on sneakers.

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call the Prince George’s County Police Department’s Regional Investigation Division-Central at (301) 772-4911.

Police arrested a Raleigh man Friday on charges of first-degree rape and sex offenses involving a child under 13 years old.

Police charged Leonardo Miranda Garcia, 25, of 2311 Torquay Crossing, Apartment G, Raleigh, with first-degree rape, first-degree sex offense with a child and indecent liberties with a child.

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He was being held Sunday in lieu of posting bond, set at $2 million, at the Wake County Jail.

U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement has identified Garcia as an illegal alien from Mexico, according to arrest warrants. His court date is set for 9 a.m. Monday.

An Orlando man who may have been kidnapped was last seen at a barber shop on Orange Blossom Trail Friday morning, police said.