The Coventry Police Department is trying to identify a woman wanted for identity theft and using a fraudulent credit card in the area.

Police said the woman opened a Target credit account in June using the victim’s information before making numerous purchases. She returned to the store three days later to make even more purchases but the card was declined at that time.

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The woman is described as white with a medium build and long dark hair. She might be driving a dark Saturn.

If you have any information, call Coventry police at 401-826-1100 Ext. 826. Det. Steve Gabriele is handling the investigation.

St. Louis County police have an Endangered Person Advisory for a missing North County man.

Authorities say Evan Hunter, 26, was last seen on August 1st around 7 p.m. when he left a home on Hobbits Glen Court. Investigators say he left a suicide note on his cellphone and he has not been seen or heard from since.

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They believe he is traveling on foot.

Hunter is a black, male, 5’11”, 170 lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes. Officials say he  was wearing a black t-shirt, gray pants and house slippers.

If you have any information dial 911 or call the St. Louis County Police Department at 636-529-8210.

Beaverton Police are searching for 58-year-old Katsuhito Causeway, who was reported as a missing endangered person on Friday July 29.

Police say Causeway left his car, cell phone and other personal items at a friend’s house on the 29th. He’s an insulin-dependent diabetic and it’s unknown if he has insulin with him.

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Causeway is described as an Asian man, 5’7″ tall and 135 pounds. He has gray hair and brown eyes. It’s unknown what he was wearing when he left his friend’s house.

If you see Katsuhito Causeway, call Beaverton Police at 503-629-0111.

A Hart County man is accused of putting shards of glass intro a company’s packs of foam cups.

Waylon Horton was arrested last Monday. The Dart Container Corporation says they noticed the problem last month and surveillance video points to Horton.

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Horton has been charged with 139 counts of Wanton Endangerment and Possession of a Destructive Device or Booby Trap.

There are no reports of anyone injured by the glass, but a customer did report finding glass in the cups.

The man accused in the murders of a missing Northern Kentucky couple will face a judge Wednesday.

Craig Pennington is accused of shooting and killing 38-year-old Robert K. Jones and 35-year-old Crystal J. Warner and disposing of their bodies.

The couple owned the property that Pennington was renting and family members tell LEX 18 that they were planning on evicting him. The couple’s bodies are still missing and search crews have combed through multiple counties trying to find their remains. Pennington’s indictment also includes charges of abusing a corpse.

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Recently, Pennington was indicted on several counts related to the case including two counts of murder, robbery, kidnapping, tampering with physical evidence, theft by unlawful taking, wanton endangerment, terroristic threatening, two counts of abuse of a copse and menacing.

A Casey County man is in trouble after police say he falsely reported the murder of his family and caused a standoff situation.

According to the Lebanon Enterprise, law enforcement responded to a call on July 31, after a man claimed someone was shooting at him and killed his entire family at their home in Marion County.

Ronnie D. Johnson, 31, of Liberty was arrested and charged with falsely reporting an incident and for public intoxication. According to witnesses, Johnson wandered onto a nearby property on Rush Branch Road.

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The home is owned by Marion County resident Jon Michael. Michael told the paper that he and his husband, Charlie, saw Johnson stumbling up the driveway around 8 p.m.

Johnson had a loaded gun.

While Charlie was on the phone with a 911, Michael approached Johnson and asked for the gun  According to Michael, that’s when Johnson said, “He’s after me and he’s already murdered my entire family.”

Michael managed to get the gun out of Johnson’s hand and held him until police arrived.  For the next hour, Michael said he and Charlie talked to Johnson and the 911 operator.

“We kept the young man in the kitchen of the cabin, talking to him and the 911 operator to keep him occupied while trying to glean information for the 911 operator who was on the line with the sheriff’s department and state police,” Michael told the Lebanon Enterprise.

The situation led to a standoff. Police blocked the road for three miles and brought in 10 SWAT officers.

Michael informed the 911 operator that he was armed and would exit the residence with his gun held above his head, not wanting to leave his guns in the house with Johnson.

Once Michael and Charlie were safely out of the house, the police discovered Johnson’s story was false and arrested him. The man Johnson claimed had killed his entire family was actually lodged in the Pulaski County Detention Center.

“This could have turned out badly on several fronts, but it didn’t,” Michael said. “Thanks to a great 911 operator, wish I knew her name, because she was first rate and stuck with us for the entire time, and a very professional response from Jimmy Clements and the sheriff’s department and the Kentucky State Police. Kudos all around.”

The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office requested help from the public Tuesday to track down a missing Donna woman.

Family members told investigators that Yvette Franco, 24, left her home on Saturday and never returned, according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office.

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Franco was last seen wearing a maroon blouse, blue jeans, black Converse shoes, according to the news release. She wears glasses and has a tattoo of a diamond near her left shoulder.

Franco drives a black 2016 Toyota Corolla with temporary license plates 78V1151, according to the news release.

Investigators ask anyone with information about Franco’s whereabouts to call (956) 383-8114.

Correction: Family members haven’t seen Yvette Franco since about 1 p.m. Saturday, when she left her home in Donna. A friend told investigators that Franco left his home in Mercedes on Saturday night.

News Release from the Sheriff’s Office

The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help to locate a missing person.

Family members reported that 24 year old Yvette Franco did not return after leaving her Mercedes home with a friend on Saturday, July 30, 2016. Franco was last seen wearing a maroon blouse, blue jean pants, black converse brand shoes, and driving a black 2016 Toyota Corolla displaying temporary license plates 78V1151, when she left her home Saturday evening. She also wears eyeglasses and has a diamond tattoo on her left shoulder area.

If anyone has information about the whereabouts of Yvette Franco, please call the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division at 956-383-8114. If a caller wishes to remain anonymous, they can call the Hidalgo County Crime Stoppers hotline at 956-668-TIPS (8477).

Update from the Sheriff’s Office

She was last seen by family members Saturday around 1pm when she left her Donna home in the Toyota Corolla. A friend of Ms. Franco reported to HCSO Investigators that she left his home in Mercedes Saturday evening, driving in the Toyota Corolla

Lexington Police are looking for two men who are wanted for stealing a woman’s wallet and purchasing nearly $1,000 worth of merchandise at Target.

Detective Mark Thomas with the Lexington Police Department says that a woman was at the Panera in the Palomar Center when she realized she left her wallet in the restroom. When she went back to get her wallet, it was missing.

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Around thirty minutes after surveillance footage shows the two men in Panera, the thieves were at Target on Reynolds Road using the stolen credit cards.

The card weren’t the only things the thieves made off with.

“She had a couple of rings that were in that wallet that not only had monetary value of significance, but they were also sentimentally significant for her,” said Detective Thomas.

Thomas says they are looking for both men, not just the one who made the transaction, but both of them.

Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for any information leading to an arrest.

You can call in your tip anonymously at (859) 253-2020. You can also text your tips to ‘CRIMES’, just text LEX- PD and your tip.

An Arkansas couple was arrested in Broken Arrow after police said they found the husband passed out behind the wheel of an SUV.

Police booked Paul and Meredith Helmert on drug-related complaints.

The arresting officer said he was called to the Raising Canes at 1100 North 9th Street around 6 p.m. Sunday and tried several times to wake up Paul Helmert who was asleep in a vehicle in the parking lot. When Helmert eventually woke up, he appeared to be under the influence of drugs, trying to hand the officer credit cards even after he’d found his driver’s license, the arrest report states.

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Police said Helmert had trouble keeping his balance and gave them conflicting stories. They called in a drug dog that alerted several times on the SUV.

Paul Helmert gave officers his wife’s phone number, and they learned she was inside the business, an arrest report states. She said she would come out, but when she didn’t show up, they eventually went inside. She was in the restroom and police said they asked an employee to go inside and look for anything that might have been discarded.

The employee said she found a glass smoking pipe in the trashcan liner and a makeup bag where police said they found two more pipes.

Officers also said they found a white powdery substance on a pair of tinted safety glasses in the SUV which tested positive for meth. When they checked Paul Helmert into jail, they said they found a glass pipe in his pants with white residue and baggies of the drug in his sock. In all, he had about 4 grams of methamphetamine on his person, according to police.

Paul Dewayne Helmert, 44, and 40-year-old Meredith Lynn Helmert were booked on complaints of drug and paraphernalia possession. They have both since bonded out of jail.