The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office this afternoon has issued an endangered missing person’s bulletin for a woman, 54, last known to be heading to work in Pinellas County where she works a night shift.

Melanie Yerby drives a 2014 silver Hyundai Accent with Florida license tags SUP2U, according to the department.

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She was described as 5 feet, 5 inches tall, 170 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. She was reportedly seen last on Monday at 9 p.m. wearing a multi-color, nurse-type scrubs top and khaki capri pants, officials said.

Anyone with information on Yerby or spots her vehicle is asked to call 1-800-706-2488.

The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday is asking for the public’s help to find two people reported missing.

The sheriff’s office said they responded to a “suspicious incident” in the 1200 block of Piros Drive, near Constitution Avenue and Peterson Road, on Tuesday.

“Based on the evidence found at the home, as well as witness interviews, this has turned into a missing person’s case,” a news release said.

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Officials are looking for Caelie Connors, 23, who is about 5’3″ tall, weighs 70 to 80 pounds, and has brown hair and hazel eyes.

They’re also looking for Jessie Peters, 32, who is 5’10” tall, weighs 180 pounds, and also has brown hair and hazel eyes.

Both were last seen in the 3400 block of North El Paso Street, which is north of Fillmore Road, in the last week. Connors was last seen there on July 12, while Peters was last seen on July 13.

If you have any information, contact the sheriff’s office at 719-390-5555.

The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office has issued a missing person alert for an elderly man last seen Wednesday evening at his home in St. Petersburg.

Thomas McCarville, 76, is described as a white male, 5 feet 10 inches tall and 230 pounds with gray hair and hazel eyes.

McCarville was last seen July 13 at approximately 10:30 p.m. at his home on 1st Street North in St. Petersburg, authorities said. His wife contacted Pinellas deputies on Friday, July 15 at 1:15 p.m. to file a missing person’s report.

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Detectives say that McCarville is suspected to be on foot and using a walker, and his wife stated that he was complaining of low blood pressure the day he went missing. He suffers from dementia and diabetes and left without his medications, the department said.

Anyone with information that may assist deputies in locating McCarville is urged to call local law enforcement at (727) 582-6200.

Police are looking for a man who they say robbed the Thornton’s on Winchester Road.

They say the man is armed and is considered dangerous.

Police have surveillance footage of him robbing the gas station. They say the robbery happened in the early morning hours of June 27^th.

“This guy took a little extra time to go around behind the counter. He stood there, waited on the clerk to come over.  Then once he had the cash, he tells him to lay down on the ground, face down and count to 60.  I haven’t heard of that in years,” said Detective Marc Thomas with the Lexington Police Department.

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Thomas says that this is uncommon, considering most robberies just involve the robber coming in, demanding cash and then leaving.

He hopes that this may eventually help Lexington Police make an arrest.

“We find a lot of times too that these guys generally don’t change their clothes very regularly, or often. Or they have very few sets of clothes they wear routinely,” said Thomas.

Detective Thomas urges shop owners in the area to exercise caution.

If you know this person, you’re asked to call the Lexington Police at (859) 253-2020 to leave an anonymous tip. You can also text your tip, just text “LEX-PD” and your tip to ‘CRIMES.’

A cash reward is offered for information leading to an arrest.

Kentucky State Police arrested a Powell County woman and charged her with Murder Tuesday.

Detectives say that 33-year-old Melissa N. Roberts was lodged in the Powell County Detention Center on the charge of Murder in connection with the shooting death of Steven Strange on April 20.

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The incident remains under investigation by Detective Toby Gardner.

Nicholasville Police are searching for the individual who robbed a Kroger at knifepoint.

It happened around 3 a.m. Tuesday morning. A white male, in a white shirt and khaki shorts, asked a cashier to break a $50. After the door was open, the suspect pulled a knife on the victim and demanded cash.

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The suspect made it out of the store with a small amount of cash.

If you recognize this man, you are asked to contact Nicholasville Police.

A Dodge City woman was sentenced Monday to serve 21 ½ years in federal prison for making a video of herself engaged in sex acts with a small child and uploading the video to the Internet, according to a release from Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall.

Ashley Marie Kelly, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of producing child pornography. In her plea, she admitted she used a smartphone to record the acts and posted the video to her Google Drive account.

Google discovered the photographs and sent reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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According to the grand jury indictment, Kelly videotaped the exposed genitals of a 2-year-old girl on Jan. 24, 2014, and then recorded herself performing oral sex on the girl and touching the child’s exposed genitals in separate videos recorded Feb. 13, 2014.

Ford County District Court records show Kelly was convicted of five counts of sexual exploitation of a child for possessing visual depictions of children under age 18, stemming from a May 2014 arrest. Under a November 2014 plea agreement prosecutors dropped 18 other counts and Kelly was placed on three year’s of supervised probation.

Beall commended the Ford County Sheriff’s Office, the Wichita Police Department, the Kansas Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Hart for their work on the case.

A self-described “cross-country pimp” from Gardena was sentenced Monday to 40 years in federal prison for forcing seven girls — including one who was 13 years old — to work as prostitutes.

Laron Darrell “Birdd” Carter, 39, was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips to pay more than $630,000 in restitution to six of his victims, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Following a five-day trial in April, a Los Angeles federal jury convicted Carter of seven counts of sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud or coercion, and seven counts of transporting a child to engage in prostitution.

The evidence at trial showed that the Crips gang member trafficked girls as young as 13 and subjected some of them to beatings, which included victims being punched in the face and whipped with a belt.

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Carter’s “conduct in this case spanned a decade as he prostituted the seven minor victims from 2003 to 2013” and transported them from California to Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Washington, D.C., and Nevada, prosecutors wrote in a pre-sentencing memorandum filed with the court.

The case stemmed from the 2013 rescue of a 16-year-old girl, who told investigators that she had been recruited by Carter to travel from Minneapolis to Los Angeles. When she arrived in Southern California, Carter forced her into prostitution, she said. Carter took the teenager to a hotel in El Segundo and advertised her services on backpage.com. The victim “ran away at one point, but she found herself lost with no money and returned,” according to court documents.

“When she returned, defendant beat her and whipped her with a belt for leaving,” federal prosecutors wrote.

After the victim was rescued, investigators located six other girls who had been coerced or physically forced into prostitution by Carter between 2003 and 2010.

“Above all, this sentence assures no more girls will fall prey to this brazen and manipulative sexual predator for decades to come,” said Joseph Macias, a special agent for Homeland Security Investigations in Los Angeles. “But the outcome of this case should also serve as a sobering warning to those engaged in the sex trafficking of minors about the severe consequences for those who commit such crimes.”

During the trial, the jury saw Facebook postings in which Carter described himself as a “cross-country pimp” who worked for “Pimpin’ International.” The jury also saw photos of tattoos with the “Birdd” moniker that victims were forced to get, prosecutors said.