Lexington Police are investigating after they say a man ran into a pharmacy, yelled that he had a bomb and demanded cash.

The incident occurred at the Rite Aid on Richmond Road. They say the suspect walked into the store, pulled up his shirt and announced he had a bomb strapped to his chest.

The “bomb” in question turned out to be electrodes from a previous hospital stay.

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Police say the clerk recognized the man and refused to hand over any cash. The suspect turned around and started to run out the door when he bumped into a woman and grabbed her purse.

Police set up a perimeter and caught him across the street at the Extended Stay.

The suspect was taken into police custody and was charged with first degree robbery and second degree robbery. His name has not been released.

A motel clerk helped lead to the arrest of two alleged counterfeiters in McCracken County.

According to the Paducah Sun, a clerk at the Comfort Inn in Paducah thought a guest paid with counterfeit bills Thursday night. When police searched the guest’s room, they allegedly found a number of counterfeit bills, a printer, and full sheets of paper with counterfeit currency.

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The paper reports that 53-year-old Bradley Peters admitted to making and using counterfeit money. 24-year-old Cadie Spears also reportedly confessed to knowing Peters was making fake money and admitted she had some in her possession.

Both were arrested and face multiple charges.

Friends and family spent Sunday searching for a missing Fleming County man who has not been seen or heard from in more than six weeks.

Wesley Mattox’s mother Jean told LEX18’s Evan Gorman the last time she saw her son was on October 11th. She along with more than a dozen friends and family members conducted their first group search for Wesley on Sunday.

“The more ground that we can cover and check areas to make sure that he’s not there then we can rule out those, ” Wesley’s cousin, Cindy Savey, told LEX18.

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Wesley’s mother said she would talk to her son at least once a day. The day the 41-year-old went missing he was reportedly walking to a local drug store with his dog Redd, but he never returned home. It is believed he may have been spotted walking near Southern States, just blocks away from where he was living.

“Well if he was walking home and took a short cut or something he could’ve fell over there somewhere, ” Mattox’s mother Jean explained.

Fearing the worst, Jean said doesn’t know what happened to her son, but she said he would be happy to see those who are helping.

“Wes would be real proud if he could see who all is here for him, ” Jean said.

Mattox’s mother said Wesley’s dog came home four days after he was reported missing.

Wesley is roughly 5’9″ and weighs around 180 lbs. If you know where he may be you are asked to call the Fleming County Sheriff’s Office or state police.

A Letcher County family is asking for the public’s help in locating their missing loved one.

Charles Fields’ sister tells LEX18 her brother was last seen driving an ATV in southern Kentucky on Tuesday. She said they are not sure where was headed but he may have been spotted at a grocery store in Mayking on Friday.

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Fields is 5’8″ and weighs 150 pounds.

If you have any information on his whereabouts, contact Kentucky State Police at 606-435-6069.

The man authorities say was a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy on Thanksgiving has been charged with murder.

Authorities responded to the shooting around 10:50 p.m. Thursday night on the 100 block of Henton Road.

The suspect, identified as 23-year-old Kevin J. Garcia, was arrested in West Virginia on Friday following a traffic stop along I-64.

Garcia was initially charged with being a fugitive from justice. Lexington police acknowledged the suspect was a person of interest in connection with the fatal shooting of 14-year-old Angel Juarez.

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An investigation by the Lexington Police Department discovered that the shooting was connected to a dispute between the suspect and the victim’s older brother. Additionally, authorities learned that Garcia attempted to confront the brother. Instead, the victim answered the door and was shot moments later.

According to the Fayette County Coroner’s Office, the boy suffered from multiple gunshot wounds. Juarez was transported to the hospital where he died a short time later.

The suspect, currently held in the Western Regional Jail in Barboursville, West Virginia, is expected to be extradited to Lexington.

Investigators have charged Kevin J. Garcia with first-degree murder.

Authorities ask for anyone with additional information about the case to call Lexington police at (859) 258-3600.

The Fayette County Coroner says a 14-year-old boy has died after a shooting on Thanksgiving Day.

The boy is identified as Angel Juarez of Lexington.

According to authorities, the shooting happened just before 11 p.m. Thursday on Henton Road.

Neighbors say they heard several gunshots.

Sharon Byrd, a family friend, says someone shot the juvenile as he answered the front door of a home.

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“Why, why did somebody do this,” she said. “I mean, it’s crazy…it’s gotta stop.”

The Mobile Crime Unit, along with the Forensic Service Team were brought in to investigate the shooting.

Investigators say they have identified a potential person of interest and are looking for that individual.

An investigation is underway and an autopsy is scheduled for Friday.

If you know anything about the shooting, you are asked to call police.

A Winchester, Ky., man has admitted to conspiring to hack into a website dedicated to athletics at an Ohio high school, and using the site to defame the website owner and threaten and intimidate other people.

Today, in federal court, Deric Lostutter, 29, pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally access a computer without authorization, and to lying to an FBI agent.  Noah McHugh, Lostutter’s co-conspirator, previously pleaded guilty in September 2016 to accessing a computer without authorization.

Lostutter admitted that in December 2012, he and McHugh hacked into a fan’s website, created for Steubenville High School sports teams, to bring attention to a rape for which two Steubenville High School football players had been arrested in August 2012 and were being held in custody.  Lostutter filmed a video wearing a mask and wrote a manifesto, which were both posted on the website to harass and intimidate people, and to gain publicity for Lostutter’s and McHugh’s online identities.  Specifically, the messages threatened to reveal personal identifying information of Steubenville High School students, and made false claims that the administrator of the fan website was involved in child pornography and directed a “rape crew.”

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As part of the same hack, Lostutter and McHugh accessed the administrator’s private email account, and then publicly posted a link to download the administrator’s emails on the fan website.  Lostutter and McHugh changed the website so no one could access anything regarding athletics and could only view the video, the manifesto, and the link to the administrator’s private emails.  Lostutter and McHugh then used their online identities in social media and news interviews to promote themselves and their hack.

In 2013, Lostutter lied to the FBI by stating in an investigative interview that he had not written the manifesto posted to the website, that he had not accessed the password-protected section of the fan website, and that he had not changed the administrator password for the website, which prevented the administrator from regaining control of his own website.

Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Amy Hess, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, jointly announced the plea.

The investigation was conducted by the FBI.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Neeraj Gupta prosecuted this case on behalf of the federal government.

Lostutter is scheduled to appear before Judge Danny C. Reeves for sentencing on March 8, 2017.  Under federal law, each count carries a maximum of 5 years in prison.  Any sentence will be imposed by the Court after consideration of the U.S. sentencing guidelines and the applicable federal statutes.

A man was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he shot and killed a man during a robbery.

Police say Jody Cooper and Justin Miller planned to rob 30-year-old Damiano Delaney, but Cooper shot and killed him.

Miller reportedly gave back his share of Delaney’s money and told a relative, who called police.

Both Cooper and Miller were arrested for multiple charges, including murder.

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Miller’s charges were dismissed in 2014.

Cooper was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

He was originally charged with murder, but that was amended to manslaughter 1^st. He was originally charged with robbery 1^st but that was amended to robbery 2nd.

Cooper was sentenced to 20 years for manslaughter, five years for robbery, five years for tampering with physical evidence and 12 months for abuse of a corpse.

The murder, robbery, and tampering with physical evidence charges will run consecutively for thirty years and the abuse of a corpse charge was merged into that time.

The human remains found over the weekend in Casey County have been identified as those of 24-year-old Whitney Danielle Copley, who has been missing since September 2015.

A press release from Kentucky State Police said that the Chief Medical Examiner made the identification through dental records.

“I think we’re all kind of at peace,” said sister Teresa Meyer. “We’re not so much over it, because it’s just begun, but at least we know where she’s at and she’s not out in the cold.”

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Preliminary autopsy results also indicated no trauma to the remains.

A forensic anthropologist in Knoxville, Tennessee will begin working on a cause of death.

For over a year, Copley’s family searched for her. In November 2015, her clothes were found in a barn in Casey County.

After the remains were found in a wooded area behind the Dogwalk Market off Highway 127 in Dunnville, Copley’s family told LEX 18 that they were confident they were the those of the missing mother.

Family members also said they still have a lot of questions about Copley’s disappearance.

“We would like to know who was with her, what happened, and what led to this, why no one came forward,” said sister Sarah Copley.