Authorities in Johnson County say someone shot and killed three horses in what is known to be a family friendly area in Johnson county.

“They bring the kids up here everybody knows these horses here on Greasy so the kids come up here they’ll bring food up to them,” said Deputy Chief Terry Tussey.

At least three horses were shot in the head and the Deputy Sheriff says they’re trying to find out who did it before it happens again.

In the meantime, the remaining eight horses that are still in the woods will be removed as soon as possible.

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Deputy Tussey says he’d like to reunite the horses with their owners, but doesn’t know if they have any. “If these are somebody’s horses they can come forward and claim them or if not these horses will be adopted out.”

According to Tussey, it’s not unusual to find abandoned animals in these woods.

He says people are known to drop animals dogs, cats, horses, and livestock but after the recent killings, his fear is whoever shot these animals may come back and do it again.

The Johnson County Deputy Sheriff is asking anyone with information about the killings of those horses to come forward.

A Laurel County woman is charged with one count of murder and two counts of criminal abuse after her twin daughters were injured so severely that one of them died.

Jessica Nicely, 31, was charged Wednesday.

Her husband Gary Nicely, 34, was charged with one count murder and one count criminal abuse earlier.

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Both are in the Laurel County Detention Center.

On August 30^th, a seven-week-old baby girl was brought to UK Hospital with a severe head injury. She died September 1^st.

Her twin was also hospitalized with broken bones.

United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. announced today that David Cary Ford, 54, of Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison following his conviction on criminal counts of wire fraud and money laundering, stemming from Ford’s actions while he was a practicing attorney and the executor of seven estates in Louisville.

“Attorneys are professionally and ethically bound to serve their clients’ best interests,” stated U.S. Attorney John Kuhn.  “We simply cannot tolerate attorneys or any other fiduciaries using their positions of trust to steal from those they are obligated to protect.  This prosecution serves the principle of justice and vindicates the breach of a trust that is an absolutely essential component of a multitude of professional relationships.”

Ford previously pled guilty to charges alleging that from November 6, 2008, through February 11, 2015, Ford, while serving as executor of the estates of Saundra A. Benzinger, Kenneth L. Keith, William T. Lawson, Mary Helen Pfeffer, Elinor E. Starr, Mary Augustine Starr, and Richard Steinmetz, defrauded those estates of approximately $1,666,671.18, and used those estates’ funds for personal expenses and enjoyment, including significant gambling activity.

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Ford also pled guilty to laundering proceeds of his fraud by using funds belonging to one estate to conceal the depletion of funds from another estate.  In pleading guilty, Ford admitted using his escrow account for this purpose with the intent to promote the carrying on of his fraud and to conceal or disguise the nature of the proceeds of his fraud.

As part of his sentence, Ford was ordered to pay over $1.6 million in restitution to 21 different victims who would have received that amount, according to bequests in the wills written by the individuals whose estates were defrauded, if not for Ford’s fraud.  Those victims and the restitution they are owed include $245,993.67 that would have gone to the WHAS Crusade For Children and $5,598.59 for the Little Sisters of the Poor.

The restitution order also includes several Catholic religious organizations.  Local victims included St. Mary’s Church ($268,459.06), St. Francis of Assisi Church ($44,743.18), Holy Family Catholic Church ($2,799.30), Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church ($2,799.30) and the Archdiocese of Louisville ($89,486.35).

Other victims included the Passionist Community ($245,993.67), the Passionist Nuns ($245,993.67), the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton ($134,229.53), the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, Inc. ($134,229.53), the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Inc. ($44,743.18), the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph’s ($44,743.18), the Nazareth Literary and Benevolent Institution, Inc. ($44,743.18).

In addition, restitution was ordered for seven individuals, named only by their initials in court documents, who would have received bequests from the wills at issue if not for Ford’s fraud.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Jason Snyder, and it results from an investigation conducted by the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

A detective with the Laurel County Sheriff’s Department took the stand Tuesday to testify in the case of two twin girls who were injured so severely that one of them later died.

Mia was just seven-weeks-old when she was taken to the hospital for critical head trauma on August 30th.

She died at UK Hospital September 1st.

Mia’s father, Gary Nicely, was arrested at the hospital. Her mother, Jessica Nicely, was arrested later.

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Detective Kyle Gray told the courtroom that Mia’s twin sister Mya had three broken bones in her leg and was also taken to the hospital.

Investigators say that Gary told them Mia was hurt after her mother went into their bedroom and he heard things being thrown. They said that Gary claims he witnessed Jessica slam Mia’s head into the bedrail several times.

In a jailhouse interview with LEX 18, Jessica said that Gary is to blame.

The two are set to be back in court on September 16th.

The case will be presented to a grand jury.

Billy Joe Miles was charged with rape, sodomy and bribing a witness.

The 76-year-old was once a chairman of the UK Board of Trustees.

The Daviess County Sheriff said that on July 2nd, they were called to his home in response to a sexual assault. Investigators interviewed a 29-year-old woman who they say claimed Miles sexually assaulted her.

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Miles was served an arrest warrant and incarcerated in the Daviess County Detention Center where he was released after posting a $150,000 cash bond and surrendering his passport.

Miles will make his first court appearance on the charges September 26th.

Officers arrested a man on theft charges Monday night.

Police in Harrodsburg posted on Facebook saying that they responded to CC Auto after receiving a complaint from an employee that a lock box with several keys inside had been pried open and several vehicles had been broken into.

They say they found Matthew F. Stewart, 35, of Louisville, in the driver’s seat of one of the vehicles. He was wearing gloves and a face mask.

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After they woke him up, officers placed him under arrest without incident.

Stewart was charged with seven counts of theft by unlawful taking, criminal trespassing, 2^nd degree, and three counts of criminal mischief, 3^rd degree.

He was lodged in the Boyle County Detention Center.

An O’fallon, Missouri man is charged with sexual trafficking of a child. St. Charles County police say 40-year-old Cory Gittemeier {git-meyer} responded to an online ad posted by an undercover detective. According to our partners at the St. Louis Post-Disptach, he offered to pay to have sex with a girl who he thought was under age 14.

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Investigators say they searched his car and found female underwear stashed in two clear bags.

Gittemeier is being held on a $50,000 cash only bond.

A man is being held in jail on a $100,000 bond after publicly posting about having sex with children.

Anthony Dallman, 28, was arrested Friday. He is facing one charge of Furnishing Harmful Items to Minors.

Parents complained to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and the Tucson Unified School District after Dallman wrote Facebook posts about going to Pistor Middle School.

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Dallman could not have been arrested for the public Facebook posts. The law does not apply to posting material on a website like Facebook. It only includes directly sending to a child “an item that is harmful to minors.”

Deputies served a search warrant at his home. They have not elaborated on the evidence that led to an arrest.

The charge is a class 4 felony with a maximum sentence of three years.

A second man has been charged after police say he teamed up with a partner and pretended to be park rangers to rob people in Whitley County.

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Deputies say Glennis Nantz and Isiah Canada presented themselves as park rangers, and then robbed their victims at the High Top boat ramp last month. Canada was arrested the next day while Nantz was arrested this past Saturday after police searched his home where they found shoes taken from a victim along with meth.

Both men are facing charges.