An arrest has been made in a disturbing assault and robbery case and officials are still searching for three other individuals connected to the case.

According to the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office, 19-year-old Kendall Elliott turned herself in to authorities in connection to an incident that occurred in 2016.

Officials say Elliott, along with three other individuals, drove from Lexington to Somerset. Along the way, they picked up a man and took him to an isolated area in eastern Pulaski County along Coal Pit Road.

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Investigators tell LEX 18 that the suspects beat the man with different objects, strangled him, robbed him of cash and his cell phone and left him in a field. The man did not have life-threatening injuries and he has since made a full recovery.

Investigators are also searching for three other individuals in the case but they are not yet releasing their names.

Elliott turned herself in to authorities Tuesday. She is facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder, robbery, assault and knowingly and willfully exploiting an adult.

A suspect wanted in connection with an armed robbery of a sporting goods store has been identified.

Investigators say that they have obtained a warrant for Deverious D. Jones, 22, of Lexington.

They say that the warrant is for Robbery 1^st.

On Thursday, officers responded to Hibbett Sports on Winchester Road in response to a robbery.

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Two men with handguns demanded money from the store and stole cash from the registers.

The investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact police at (859) 258-3600. Anonymous tips, including photos and videos, can be submitted by texting LEXPD plus the tip to CRIMES (274637). Information can also be sent anonymously through Bluegrass Crime Stoppers at (859) 253-2020 or www.bluegrasscrimestoppers.com.

The family of a Lexington murder victim is taking it upon themselves to find answers. Maryiah Coleman and her unborn son Jacoby were shot and killed outside a Winburn Apartment complex last Wednesday.

Coleman’s family is asking for anonymous tipsters to call a number set up by a community organization with information on her death. Fliers are being distributed around the community with a plea for answers in the death of the 22-year-old mother to be.

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“We’re asking you to come forward. Point blank, simple. The only way we are going to be healed from this is through Jesus Christ and justice. Jesus is doing his part and now justice, it’s time to justice to do it’s part. We’re gonna look and we’re gonna keep searching and we’re not going to stop,” Maryiah’s cousin, Perry Wooldridge told LEX 18.

The family says that they may not get over her death and the fact that they will never be able to hold their grandchild, but that justice will help the healing process.

Money is being raised for funeral expenses. To donate click here. 

A man has been arrested after the robbery of a Rite Aid store.

According to police, Michael Cotton robbed the Winchester Road location of the store and fled with pills and cash.

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He was quickly captured a few moments later. Cotton has been lodged in the Fayette County Detention Center and is facing a robbery charge.

A couple weeks after a Boyle County woman was found murdered in her basement, the primary suspect in the case, her 15-year-old stepdaughter, was returned to Kentucky after being found in New Mexico.

Her father told LEX 18’s Breanna Gilroy that the past few weeks have been nothing short of a nightmare.

Rhonda Oakley, 52, was a wife, mother, and grandmother. Her stepson found her dead in the family’s basement when he came home from school.

Days later, her stepdaughter Jenna was found in New Mexico with her 20-year-old boyfriend Kenneth Nigh. Following an attempted suicide, Nigh remains in a New Mexico hospital.

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Paperwork from New Mexico referred to Jenna as a suspect in Rhonda’s murder.

While no one has been charged in Rhonda’s death, Phillip Oakley believes that it is just a matter of time until his daughter is charged with the murder of his wife.

“I hate my daughter,” Phillip Oakley told LEX 18. “That’s pretty, ya know? Just like I said before, you always think you have unconditional love for your children. But, that’s not true.”

Phillip and Rhonda would have been celebrating their third wedding anniversary this year.

“She means everything. My wife, she was such a loving person. She just loved life,” said Phillip.

Now the only comfort he can find is in talking about the wonderful person Rhonda was.

“She was the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect nana, the perfect friend,” said Phillip.

“I hate my daughter. I want the hardest thing to happen to my daughter ever,” Phillip told LEX 18. “I just don’t care.”

He believes that both Jenna and Kenneth Nigh are to blame.

“I think both the individuals responsible are monsters, and that’s just the way I think about that,” he said.

Phillip said he couldn’t go into much detail about what may have lead up to Rhonda’s death, but he says it could have been stopped.

“It’s just unthinkable,” he told LEX 18. “People will ask you, if you know something, talk to someone. Guess what? We did, and no one did anything. This is the result.”

Phillip now has a mission to fix the system that he says failed him.

LEX 18 asked Phillip if he had a message for his teenage daughter. He responded, “I don’t really want to say anything to her. I don’t want to say a thing to him (Nigh). I hope they both rot in hell.”

State Police will not say where Jenna Oakley is being held since she is a juvenile.

Jenna Oakley and Kenneth Nigh were found in Rhonda’s car. Phillip told LEX 18 that he needs help getting the car back to Kentucky from New Mexico. He said State Police told him that cost would fall on him. He has created a GoFundMe to help get the car returned.

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On September 8, 2016, the FBI arrested Marie A. Castelli, 55, of Maysville, Kentucky, pursuant to a federal indictment and arrest warrant.  The indictment alleges that Castelli knowingly transmitted communications intended to be a threat to injure the person of another in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 875(c) and (2).  The indictment further alleges that Castelli willfully and knowingly made materially false statements to the FBI in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2).  Today, September 9, 2016, Castelli appeared before a federal judge for an arraignment.  The court ordered Castelli detained pending any further orders of the court.

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There is no current threat to public safety related to this arrest, and it is not related to the upcoming anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.  The FBI and its federal, state, and local partners remain vigilant in keeping the public from harm.

An indictment is an allegation only.  All defendants are presumed innocent and are entitled to a fair trial, at which the government must prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.