Police have arrested two suspects in a Florida-based scheme where thieves steal checkbooks from women’s vehicles then cash the checks using stolen identification of other victims, the FBI said.

They use disguises such as wigs to appear similar to photos on identification cards, such as driver’s licenses, used to cash the stolen checks.

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“When cashing the checks, the fraud participants use the drive-through teller lane farthest from the bank building, making it difficult for the teller inside the bank to make a close comparison of the fraud participant to the stolen means of identification provided as proof of identity,” FBI special agent Bruce Johnson wrote in a criminal complaint.

Police have dubbed such crimes as “Felony Lane” cases.

Johnson said that thieves target places where women will leave purses in vehicles, such as health and fitness clubs and day-care facilities. The thieves break in and steal purses containing checkbooks and identification then draft checks back and forth between break-in victims.

A Florida-based ring hit West Michigan a couple of years ago, which resulted in numerous arrests. The leader, Marcus Montell Thames, was sentenced to 115 months in federal prison early this year.

The N.C. Center for Missing Persons has issued a Silver Alert for a missing endangered man, George Hillard Harrrelson.

Authorities say Harrrelson, who is believed to be suffering from dementia or some other cognitive impairment, may be heading toward Tabor city on foot from the Chadbourn area. He is 66, stands 5’9” tall, and has short black hair with blue eyes.

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He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a white shirt, and a blue sports jacket. Harrelson lives at 995 A.D. Hinson Road, and was last seen on Kenny Jordan Road near Green Acres Road.

Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to call Deputy Timmy Inman at the Columbus County Sheriff’s Office at 640-1428.

Police have arrested a man in Pulaski County on charges of incest and rape.

Michael Dungan, 55, is accused after his alleged victim told police that he had sex with her on numerous occasions. Police say the victim is physically and mentally handicapped. She is apparently confined to a wheelchair and unable to give consent.

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Dungan has been charged with rape before – regarding the same victim – back in 1993.

Susan Carrell was last seen November 4, 2013 in Carlsbad, New Mexico. Carrell is diagnosed with depression and is showing signs of Dementia. If you have any information on the whereabouts of Susan Carrell please contact the Carlsbad Police Department at (575)885-2111.

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ANYONE HAVING INFORMATION SHOULD CONTACT
New Mexico Department of Public Safety
1-800-457-3463

Kentucky State Police have charged two Carter County men with sexual abuse, one case involving a 4-year-old girl.

Police say they received a report that a family acquaintance sexually abused the child at a home on Clay Camp back in September. After police investigated, a grand jury indicted James D. Withrow, 56, on Oct. 25. Police say Withrow touched the little girl in “a sexual manner.”

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Troopers arrested Withrow on Monday and charged him with sexual abuse victim under 12 and sodomy victim under 12.

Police also charged 40-year-old Christopher Shaffer with sexual abuse, sodomy and unlawful transaction with a minor.

Police say Shaffer provided drugs and alcohol to three 14-year-old and had sexual contact with one of the teens.

The search is on in San Jose for an 81-year-old man who walked away from his convalescent home Monday afternoon.

San Jose police Thomas Dottore was reported missing just before 6 p.m.

He walked out of the home on Forest Avenue a couple hours earlier.  The home is on the other side of I-880 near Valley Fair Shopping Mall.

Police say Dottore doesn’t have any cash on him. He doesn’t know his name, but does know where he lives and has taken public transportation in the past.

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The only thing that people who know him can say about what he was wearing, is that he had on a light blue jacket.

He has a history of muscle weakness and requires daily insulin injections. He also has a tendency to become confused and disoriented.

There is no foul play suspected at this time, according to police.

Anyone with information about Dottore or his whereabouts is urged to call 9-1-1 or Detective Melo in the Missing Person’s Unit at 408-277-4786 and reference San Jose Police case #13-308-0722.

The woman who entered a guilty plea in connection with the 2011 death of a Boyle County man heard her sentence in court Tuesday.

Gina Priest was given 5 years of pre-trial diversion in connection with the death of Michael Begley, Junior.

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His choked body was found along the side of Taylor Road in Boyle County. Police say Jordan White choked Begley to stop a fight involving Priest. White was given a 5-year-sentence for reckless homicide.

Another woman charged in the case, Melissa Luna, was shot and killed at her home in 2012.

A Wausau woman who was 16 when she disappeared more than nine years ago is alive and living outside the U.S., and volunteers at an Athens church are determined to raise the funds necessary to bring the woman home.

Connie McCallister, now 26, disappeared with her boyfriend Aug. 15, 2004, when she was an honor-roll student at Athens High School, where she also was involved in track and cross country and worked at a bakery.

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The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children displayed McCallister’s name and photo on its website until three months ago. That’s when a church missionary who met McCallister and learned she was a missing person contacted officials at the national organization and said McCallister, who now has three young children, was safe and wanted to come home.

“We have confirmed, through conversations on Skype, that this is really Connie, and she did ask for help in getting home,” said Wausau Police Capt. Greg Hagenbucher. “But she won’t come back without her children.”

When they learned of McCallister’s plight, volunteers and employees at Trinity Lutheran Church in Athens, where McCallister attended vacation Bible school, acted quickly to help the McCallister family. Church officials will host a soup dinner Nov. 17 to raise the funds necessary to bring the once-missing woman and her children back to the U.S.

Judy Weise, who works at Trinity and is spearheading the fundraising effort, said the family is reluctant to divulge the details of McCallister’s disappearance and her whereabouts during the past nine years until McCallister is safely back in the country.

“We don’t want to do anything to jeopardize Connie’s safety, and we believe we could be putting her in danger if we say more,” Weise said. “We just want to get her home.”

Officials with the U.S. Consulate are working with McCallister to gather the required documents and identification records necessary for McCallister to return home, said Wausau Police Detective Kay Hansen, who has worked on the case since detectives in Wausau received word McCallister is alive.

The McCallisters had just moved from Athens to Wausau when Connie McCallister went missing with her boyfriend, a then-22-year-old man who is wanted on charges of first-degree sexual assault involving an unrelated victim.

McCallister’s mother, Cindy McCallister, now lives in Florida, but several of Connie McCallister’s family members remain in the Wausau area, Weise said.

Police continue to search for a man accused of child rape.

Corbin Police posted the picture of Stephen Beck on their Facebook page. After LEX 18’s story aired Monday, officers say they received several tips he could be in the south Corbin area. Police tracked that claim, but say it was not Beck.

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Beck is wanted by U.S. Marshals and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations.

He faces several charges including nine counts of rape of a child, 16 counts of rape and 10 counts of sexually exploiting a minor.

If you know anything on Beck or his whereabouts, give Crime Stoppers a call.

Additional details can be found at http://www.kentucky.com/2013/11/05/2913309/lexingtons-most-wanted-nov-6.html