A Greenwood man accused of engaging in sexual battery on a child is behind bars.

S.C. Law Enforcement Division (SLED) arrested Arsenio La’Marcus Byars,24, Tuesday and charged him with sexual battery with a child less than 11-years-old, reports say.

Byars faces this felony which carries a penalty, if convicted, of 25 years up to life in prison.

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This case is being investigated by SLED at the request of the Gaffney Police Department. It will be prosecuted by the Seventh Circuit Solicitor’s Office.

A 64-year-old man who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease has been reported missing from his Humboldt Park home.

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Louis Bell was last seen around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the 700 block of North Monticello, according to a police missing person’sa lert. He usually walks around the block and returns to his home in the 1000 block of North Ridgeway, but he might be confused and unable to find his way back, the police said.

A McCracken County, Kentucky, physician was charged by federal Information today with the fraudulent possession of a controlled substance, wire fraud and making false statements related to health care matters, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.

According to the twelve-count federal Information, Sean P. McDonald, 46, devised a scheme to obtain prescription pain medication, while a treating physician at two Paducah, Kentucky, hospitals by falsely misrepresenting that he was removing medications for hospitalized patients, falsely possessing the controlled substances, and then falsely causing a request for payment to be sent from the two Paducah hospitals to the insurance carriers of the patients.

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Specifically, it’s alleged that McDonald defrauded Lourdes Hospital and Western Baptist Hospital, by means of wire communication. From February 2009, through November 2010, McDonald caused a request for payment to be sent from Western Baptist Hospital and/or Lourdes Hospital, both located in Paducah, Kentucky, to patient’s insurance carriers.

During the same time period, McDonald made false and fraudulent statements to insurance carriers indicating that he had provided medication to patients when he had not.

Further, McDonald, as a prescribing physician with a DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) registration number to issue prescriptions, wrote prescriptions for Dilauded, a Schedule II controlled substance, in violation of his DEA registration, to patients, when in fact he never provided the controlled substances to the patient.

If convicted at trial, McDonald would face a combined maximum term of imprisonment of 113 years, a combined maximum fine of $3,000,000 and a three year term of supervised release.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Lettricea Jefferson-Webb and Seth Hancock and is being investigated by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, Kentucky Attorney General’s Office and Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The indictment of a person by a Federal Information is an accusation only and that person is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

The pre-trial conference for two of the suspects charged in a robbery that led to the shooting of a Richmond Police Officer was held Thursday morning.

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Suspects Carl Banks and Rita Creech are charged in the incident that led to the shooting of Officer Daniel Ellis

Creech and Banks will appear for another pre-trial conference on August 4th.

Authorities are looking for a missing teenager who is from Lower Windsor Township, and police believe she is in Maryland.

Alyssa Heltzel, 17, ran away on June 12, according to the Lower Windsor Township Police Department’s Facebook post.

She is listed as missing with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Heltzel went to work at a fast-food restaurant but did not return home, Lower Windsor Township Police Chief Timothy Caldwell said. He said there is nothing suspicious at this time with her disappearance.

She was staying in the Ocean City, Md. area, police said. More recently, she was seen at a Wal-Mart in Elkton, Md.

Heltzel also has been entered as a missing person into the National Crime Information Center, and police departments along the Eastern Shore have been informed that she is missing, Caldwell said.

Authorities want to make sure she is returned home to her family, the chief said.

Anyone who sees Alyssa is asked to call 911.

Four individuals have been arrested in a circuitous case full of twists and turns of two  alleged incidents of credit card fraud.

Late last week, the wallets of two employees at the Best Tile East Brunswick on Route 18 were allegedly stolen after a customer, later identified as 30-year-old Deisha Bennett, of Brooklyn, had asked the employees for help in the corner of the store, according to a statement by police.

While the employees were distracted, a man later identified as 27-year-old Travis Haynes, also of Brooklyn, then allegedly stole the wallets out of the employees’ purses.

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A short time later, police were alerted that the victim’s credit cards had been used at the Best Buy in East Brunswick. However, when police arrived the two suspects had already fled in a silver Ford with a Texas registration.

In an odd twist, however, police then apprehended two different individuals at the Best buy who were “attempting to fraudulently use credit cards” in the store, the statement said.

Those individuals, 31-year-old Kwane Dower and 23-year-old Jeffrey Hunt, both of Brooklyn, had attempted to purchase roughly $1,400 worth of merchandise each.

Dower and Hunt were taken into custody and charged with theft of credit cards, fraudulent use of credit cards and identity theft, according to officials. Their bail was set at $10,000 with a ten percent option on each. Hunt posted bail while Dower was taken to the Middlesex County Adult Corrections Center in lieu of bail.

Sometime later, one of the employees from the Best Tile East Brunswick contacted authorities after receiving an alert “that her credit card was just used at the Target on Ryders Lane in Milltown” — at which point Milltown police were notified and responded to the scene.

When authorities arrived, they found the two original suspects, Bennett and Haynes, leaving the Target, and the two fled on foot toward the Brunswick Grove on Milltown Road.

Police ultimately apprehended Bennett and Haynes and took them into custody.

They were found in possession of the credit cards of both Best Tile employees. They were charged with theft of credit cards, fraudulent use of credit cards and identity theft.

Their bail was set at $7,500 and they were taken to the Middlesex County Adult Corrections Center in lieu of bail.

A Mercer County teenager who is accused of killing another teenager will be tried as an adult.

Trenton Easterling, 17, is accused with two others in the death of 17-year-old Tristan Cole.

Easterling was previously indicted by a grand jury for murder and robbery.

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An attorney for Easterling told the Advocate Messenger that it is very rare for a teen to be tried as an adult.

Cole was killed in April and his body was discovered inside of a vehicle. Authorities say he had been shot multiple times.

Both Zachary Lay and Megan Sims also face charges in his death.

A Louisville man has been charged with two counts of murder after hitting and killing two young girls while allegedly driving intoxicated.

The accident occurred in Louisville’s Jefferstown community on Tuesday night. WAVE 3 News reports that Juan Carlos Ortega-Santos was driving with a blood-alcohol level of .200, more than twice the legal limit, when he struck two young girls in the bicycle lane of Taylorsville Road.

A 10-year-old girl was pronounced dead on scene. A 16-year-old girl was transported to Kosair Children’s Hospital. Police say a third girl in the group suffered non life-threatening injuries.

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EMTs treating Ortega-Santos for non-life-threatening injuries smelled alcohol on him. He was taken to Baptist Health Louisville where his blood-alcohol level was tested. Ortega-Santos told police he drank two or three Modelo beers between 7 and 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Ortega-Santos is charged with two counts of murder, first-degree assault, first-degree wanton endangerment, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, driving without a license and failure to maintain insurance.

A Kentucky accountant who spent most of six years as a fugitive in an embezzlement case roaming the Appalachian Trail will soon learn how many more years he will spend behind bars.

Fifty-four-year-old James Hammes is to be sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Cincinnati. The judge has said she’s weighing factors including the high amount of money involved – $8.7 million – and Hammes’ flight to avoid prosecution. He pleaded guilty last year to wire fraud.

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The U.S. attorney’s office wants more than seven years in prison. Hammes’ attorneys are asking for three years, saying he’s remorseful and trying to redeem himself. He was arrested in May 2015.

Sentencing guidelines indicate a range of 63 to 78 months. That maximum is nine months below what prosecutors are seeking.