Police are searching for a suspect who took off during a traffic stop in Lexington.

According to officials, an officer tried to pull over a man on a motorcycle for a traffic violation. The man jumped off the bike and fled from police, but not before running into a car at Sunset and Tates Creek.

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Police have discovered a gun on the scene. An officer told LEX 18’s Leigh Searcy that as far as they know, the person on the bike did not have any active warrants.

Police are searching the area for the suspect, described as a black male in a white t-shirt and baggy red basketball shorts.

Lexington Police have caught up with the man they say robbed a Lexington gas station last month.

18-year-old Quantaveon Leavell is accused of robbing the Shell station on South Broadway on July 24. The store clerk says two men came into the business armed with guns and demanded money.

After running away, police say they saw a car matching the description of the getaway vehicle, a Toyota Corolla. After a short chase, police say the suspects crashed into a fence on Picadome Golf Course. The vehicle’s occupants ran away. Police say two juveniles were in the car.

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Leavell was identified by his co-defendants as one of the men who entered the Shell armed with a gun. He was arrested Friday and will appear in court Monday morning to answer to a charge of first degree robbery.

The juvenile defendants have also been arrested and charged in connection to the robbery.

A man facing disturbing charges out of Michigan will now answer to several charges in Mount Sterling.

Ronald Triplett, a 67-year-old fugitive and member of the FBI’s most wanted list, will be arraigned for charges of rape and kidnapping in Mount Sterling.

The investigation in Kentucky started when police say a woman showed up to the hospital and said she had been kidnapped and raped. According to court documents, the victim says she was walking in Mount Sterling when Triplett held a gun to her head and abducted her.

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She says her kidnapper took her to an undisclosed location and sexually assaulted her.

One week later, Mount Sterling Police notified authorities in Michigan that they believed the suspect was still in Kentucky. Triplett was taken into custody without incident and was extradited to Michigan to face similar charges from the past. He was then returned to Kentucky.

Mount Sterling Police say that while Triplett doesn’t appear to have a criminal history in Kentucky, he has an extensive violent criminal history in other states.

Triplett is charged with 1st degree rape, kidnapping, and 1st degree sodomy. He also faces charges of 1st degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, because detectives say he was carrying counterfeit money.

He will be arraigned on the Kentucky charges Monday.

One man is dead and three people are behind bars after an armed home robbery in Carter County.

It happened just after 8:15 a.m. on Saturday morning at a home in Olive Hill. Officials with KSP Post 14 said multiple people armed with guns forced their way into a home on Clark Hollow and took an undisclosed amount of cash. During the robbery police said an altercation occurred between the homeowner and one of the robbery suspects. That suspect, 48-year-old Kevin J. Helton of Salt Lick, was shot and killed at the scene. Two other suspects, Cindy Puckett and Jonathan Goodan, ran from the scene, and the fourth suspect, Brittany Crouch, stayed at the scene and was arrested.

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KSP said during the robbery several people were at home, including children, but none of them were hurt.

Puckett, Goodan and Crouch are all lodged in the Carter County Detention Center and charged with 1st degree robbery.

KSP is investigating.

The search for a woman who went missing in Northern Kentucky in July will continue Saturday morning.

Authorities believe Crystal Warner and her boyfriend, Bobby Jones, were murdered in Washington County by the tenant of their rental property.

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According to KSP, the tenant, Craig Pennington killed the couple when they visited the property.

The body of Jones was discovered in Clark County over one week ago near I-64.

At 8 a.m., family and friends will gather near the location Jones’ body was found to continue their search for Crystal.

A St. Paul woman has pleaded guilty to using stolen identities to file fraudulent income tax returns.

Twenty-eight-year-old Ebony Shante Yarbrough pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated identity theft.

According to court documents, the scheme happened between 2013 and 2015. Prosecutors say Yarbrough convinced friends and family members to let her file their state and federal income tax returns, saying she knew how to do it and wouldn’t charge as much as a CPA.

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Prosecutors say Yarbrough prepared the returns by claiming false income and including dependents by using the stolen IDs of other minors.

Prosecutors say the scheme accounted for more than $500,000 in false claims.

Two New York men have been jailed on allegations they gave fake photo IDs to officers who stopped them on Interstate 83.

Southern Regional police said they had a report of people using fraudulent credit cards to buy gift cards at the Rutter’s Farm Store in Shrewsbury when they pulled over the pair on Sunday.

Multiple credit cards were found on them and in their vehicle, police said.

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Police said Felipe A. Avila and Felipe R. Avila, both of Brooklyn, were identified by their fingerprints. They face multiple charges including identity theft and false identification to law enforcement.

The investigation continues into the use of the fraudulent credit cards.