State Police in Mercer County say they arrested two men on their way back to New York with fraudulently obtained credit cards they allegedly used to go on a shopping spree at several Best Buy stores.

Police say when they searched a mini-van stopped Thursday morning along I-80 for a suspected traffic violation, they found several fraudulent ID cards, fraudulent US passport cards, and fraudulent credit cards.

Officers say the cards, along with several fraudulently obtained Apple iPhones were found in hidden compartments of the mini-van.

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Police say the identities used to obtain the fraudulent cards had been stolen from people in Pennsylvania, Texas and South Carolina.

According to investigators, the men inside the mini-van used the fraudulent cards to purchase thousands of dollars worth of merchandise at several Best Buy retail stores in Wisconsin.

Bond is set at $100,000 for Christopher Sanchez, 23, of New York City, who is charged with five felony counts of identity theft and one count of access device conspiracy.

The driver of the mini-van, Wilson Acosta, 24, of New York City, is charged with one count of identity theft and one count of access device conspiracy.

The magistrate set Acosta’s bond at $75,000.

Police are notifying the victims whose identities were stolen.

A missing vulnerable adult alert has been issued for a 77-year-old Manhattan man Friday.

The Missing Persons Clearinghouse said Enrique Tovar was last seen walking southbound on 7th Avenue from West 46th Street in Manhattan at 5 p.m. Thursday.

He has dementia and diabetes and may be in need of medical attention.

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Tovar was last seen wearing a green hooded jacket, blue button-down shirt, khaki pants and white velcro sneakers.

He is a white male, who is 5 feet, six inches tall and weighs 185 pounds. He has gray hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information is asked to call the New York City Police Department Missing Person Squad at 212-767-8405 or 911.

Human remains have been found near the Tooth Rock Trailhead in the Columbia River Gorge.

Search and rescue crews recovered the remains and they have been taken to the Oregon State Medical Examiner’s office to be identified.

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This is the area that 21-year-old Annie Schmidt went missing in October.

Schmidt’s father, Jon Schmidt, wrote on the Finding Annie Schmidt Facebook group that personal items found with the remains did belong to Annie.

He said their family is waiting for conclusive identification of the remains, but they are very hopeful for closure.

Authorities are searching for an escaped inmate.

Joseph Cody Aubrey escaped the Restricted Custody Building through a ventilation shaft he cut in the ceiling.

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Aubrey was serving time on a parole violation and was assigned to the Hardin County Detention Center work program.

Anyone with information on Aubrey’s whereabouts can contact the Kentucky State Police or their local law enforcement agency.

Police in southern Minnesota are searching for a missing 12-year-old girl who is developmentally disabled.

According to the St. Peter Police Department, just before 4 a.m. Friday a motorist reported seeing a female wearing pajamas and no shoes on the Highway 99 bridge.

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About an hour later, a woman called saying her daughter, 12-year-old Mya Ann Arriage, wandered out of her their home.

Arriage is approximately 5-feet-3-inches tall and 250 pounds. She is non-verbal and often combative, police said. At the time she left home, she was wearing an aqua blue T-shirt and pink pajama pants with polka dots.

Several agencies are collaborating on an extensive air, ground and water search.

One person has died and another has been charged following an overnight crash in Lexington.

Police responded to a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Athens-Boonesboro Road and Hays Boulevard just after midnight. One vehicle overturned and the driver of the truck, identified as 23-year-old Robert Spencer Hatler, was ejected and was unresponsive.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. Hatler was a native of Winchester. He attended Transylvania University but did not graduate from there. He played baseball for George Rogers Clark High School.

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The driver of the other vehicle, identified by police as Alexandria Rankin, was uninjured and was taken into custody for second-degree manslaughter and DUI. She bonded out of jail around 2:57 p.m. on Friday.

Rankin paid the full cash bond of $7,500 for the manslaughter charge and $500 for the DUI charge.

Witnesses tell LEX 18 that Rankin ran a red light.

Collision reconstruction units were on scene for nearly nine hours.  The roadway has since reopened.

A Woodford County principal had thought he’d seen and heard it all, until some students brought marijuana lollipops onto the school’s campus.

“We’ve seen a variety of ways that people try to smuggle in stuff that they shouldn’t have at school,” said Woodford County High School Principal Rob Akers.

Akers says that Versailles Police told the school to be aware of lollipops laced with Marijuana that were possibly at the school.

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“Sure enough we found that we had a few in the building,” said Akers.

The lollipops are in a building with Kentucky State Police undergoing analysis to be certain that Marijuana is the substance in question.

“Based on some of the reactions some of the kids had to them, it wasn’t just an over-the-counter sugar sucker,” Akers told LEX 18.

After ¼ century as an educator, Akers thought he was prepared for almost anything he’d come across in these hallways.

“It’s just another thing to have to try to be aware of and to try to make sure that we’re keeping our kids safe,” said Akers.

Police are looking for a man with dementia who went missing Wednesday morning.

Charles Williams, 61, who suffers from dementia and other medical issues, was last seen on Fairfax Street in Valley Stream at 10:45 a.m. Wednesday. He is a black man, 5’11” tall, 200 pounds, gray hair, brown eyes, wearing a red jacket, blue jeans, blue baseball cap with “NY” lettering and sneakers. Williams is in need of medication.

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Detectives request anyone with information regarding this missing person to contact the Missing Persons Squad at 516-573-7347 or call 911. All callers will remain anonymous.

One person has died and another has been arrested following an overnight crash in Lexington.

Police responded to a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Athens-Boonesboro Road and Hays Boulevard just after midnight. One vehicle overturned and the driver of the truck, identified as 23-year-old Robert Spencer Hatler, was ejected and was unresponsive.

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He was pronounced dead at the scene. Hatler was a native of Winchester. He was a graduate of Transylvania University. He played baseball for George Rogers Clark High School.

The driver of the other vehicle, identified by police as Alexandria Rankin, was uninjured and was taken into custody for second-degree manslaughter and DUI.

Witnesses tell LEX 18 that Rankin ran a red light.

Collision reconstruction units were on scene for nearly nine hours.  The roadway has since reopened.