The Fayette County Coroner is in need of the public’s assistance in finding the relatives of a man who died at the UK Medical Center.

Clyde Taylor, 61, did not list anyone as his person to contact in case of an emergency when he entered the medical center.

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He lived in the Hickory Street area of Lexington and died at UK on Tuesday, July 5. He was a white man.

Anyone with information about relatives or friends of Taylor should contact Rose at the UK Medical Center at (859) 323-5818 or Fayette County Coroner Gary Ginn at (859) 455-5700.

An arrest has been made in a Lexington shooting that happened Wednesday.

Police confirm that the shooting happened at the intersection of Armstrong Mill and Appian Way. The victim was found at Buckhorn Drive.

Police say that a man was driving a Dodge Challenger when he stopped the car, got out and fired three shots in the air and then two into the victim’s car, a gold Maxima. The shooter then drove away. The victim was hit in the shoulder.

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They do not expect the victim has life-threatening injuries.

Michael Goode was found in the 3700 block of Camelot Drive thanks to a witness’s descriptions. He has been taken into police custody for further questioning.

Police say they found an AR-15 rifle and a handgun in his Lincoln Navigator. Police say the car he drove during the shooting was his girlfriend’s.

Leesburg Police have a new person of interest in the case of a missing elderly woman believed to be dead.

The search for Bernadine Montgomery, 84, is a homicide case.

Police found her car, but the search for her body is on-going.

Tuesday, investigators named David Mariotti, 34, of Fruitland Park, as a person of interest in the case.

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He’s wanted on unrelated charges out of Lake County.

Investigators haven’t said why they want to talk to him or what role he could have played in Montgomery’s disappearance.

Mariotti was arrested in June on drug charges and has a lengthy arrest record.

Police say Montgomery was last seen at her Palmora Boulevard home back on June 15.

Her car was found abandoned at nearby Ski Beach.

If you think you recognize Mariotti or might know where he is, call Leesburg Police.

Bremer County authorities are searching for a missing woman.

The sheriff’s office said Tuesday night it is looking for 76-year-old Cloris Mehmen, of Plainfield.

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She was last seen wearing blue jeans and a men’s short sleeved shirt.

Anyone with information is encouraged to call Bremer County dispatch at (319) 352-5400 ext. 3.

Lexington fire crews battled an early morning fire near downtown on Wednesday morning.  Now the homeowner believes that someone in his own family is responsible.

The fire broke out at a home on Maryland Ave. The affected area was a detached garage on the back side of the home. Two cars and tons of personal mementos were destroyed.

The call came in to dispatch at around 4 a.m. Flames were shooting from the garage and neighbors say sirens and loud noises woke them up. Luckily, the damage is contained to just the garage and did not spread to the.

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The 81-year-old homeowner told LEX 18  that he used to own a car lot and there are multiple cars all over the property and that two of them were destroyed, along with precious mementos from his daughter’s deceased husband.

Neighbors saw a man running from the garage before the fire started. The homeowner immediately suspected his nephew, who had lived in the garage with a female friend.

The homeowner says that his nephew had recently been asked to leave because of the amount of money he owes. He lives on a fixed income and because of that he likely will not rebuild.  His daughter told LEX 18 that the hardest part is knowing the countless pictures and mementos that were destroyed in the fire can never be replaced.

“You feel like you wanna give up but you can’t. Because the good Lord is above and we know there’s a reason for everything. But it doesn’t make it you feel any better at this point,” Cara Harris told LEX 18’s Claire Crouch.

Fire investigators are collecting evidence at the scene.

The Waterford Emergency Communication Center received a call from the manager of the Rite Aid located at 75 Boston Post Rd. in Waterford around 9:45 Saturday morning stating that an individual that had been in Thursday evening was back and attempting to use a fraudulent credit card.

Upon arrival the officers began to speak with the individual who immediately became argumentative and attempted to flee the store. Officers restrained the individual and placed him into custody.  The individual gave the officers two false names and was later identified through his fingerprints as being Jordan Potts with a date of birth of 3/21/1994 from Brooklyn, New York.

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During the investigation it was learned that Potts is potentially using fraudulent credit cards to purchase Visa gift cards and then was cashing them in and wire transferring money to accounts in the amounts of $500 per transaction. The investigation is ongoing but as of this time the total amount was $7500.

$1,889 in cash was seized during the arrest along with several gift cards and fraudulent IDs. After positively identifying Potts it was learned that he had an active felony arrest warrant out of the state of New York for burglary. Potts was subsequently charged as being a fugitive from justice.

Potts was charged with Interfering With A Police Officer, Identity Theft 3rd Degree and Fugitive From Justice. Potts is being held on a $500,000 bond for the Fugitive From Justice Arrest and $50,000 on the original arrest. But authorities say the investigation is ongoing and more charges are expected.

Lexington police say that they are looking for a man and a woman in connection with a jewelry store theft.

They say that thousands of dollars in jewelry was stolen.

Police believe the couple may have initially walked into Pandora in Fayette Mall to do some shopping, but then their plans changed.

“I think this in particular was a target of opportunity.  I think he went in and saw this set of keys and just grabbed them, and then went about forming a plan,” said Detective Mark Thomas with the Lexington Police Department.

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Detectives say that the man took some keys that were left out and then he and the woman left the store.

“Twenty minutes later, you can see them reenter the store, and they really take their time.  I mean, they’re in the store about 40 minutes.  But when they first come back in, the female goes to immediately distract one of the clerks.  And then you can see how brazen this guy is.  He just keys right in to one of the cabinets, pulls out an entire tray of rings, and dumps them into an express bag,” said Thomas.

The rings total about $20,000 in value.

Police say that the man even tried opening other cabinets with the key, but it didn’t work.

Police want anyone who might recognize the couple to let them know.

If you have any information on the stolen jewelry floating around internet sites where it could be sold, let Lexington police know.

“With the quick and the ease of this guy palming that set of keys, and the way they went about this, distracting the clerk, there’s no doubt in my mind that this man or this woman have a criminal history, absolutely no doubt,” said Thomas.

If you can help police, Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to an arrest.

You can call in your tip at (859) 253- 2020. You can also text your tip to ‘CRIMES.’  In the text message, type LEX P-D and then your tip.

The Elliott County Coroner confirms that a body has been pulled from Grayson Lake near where a man went missing over the weekend.

A 35-year-old man from Cleveland went missing after driving his ATV over a cliff line Sunday at midnight. The man was reportedly in the area for a family reunion when the accident happened.

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The drop was about 45 feet.

Bad weather forced the search to be delayed. Coroner says they are working to get a positive identification on the body at this time.

A man is missing after his ATV went off a cliff line into the Grayson Lake.

Elliott County Fish and Wildlife officials tell LEX 18 that the 35-year-old man is from Cleveland and he was in town visiting family when the accident happened.

The drop was about 45 feet.

The crash happened around 12:30 a.m.

Around 4:45 a.m., the weather was too bad for search crews to stay in the water so they stopped the search. Around 10:00 a.m. Monday, they regrouped to search for the man, but due to severe weather they had to suspend the search again around 3:53 p.m.