A Charlotte man who was scheduled to go on trial this week in a child sexual abuse case has pleaded guilty, the 13th Circuit Solicitor’s Office said Thursday.

Joseph Hansford McCallister, 71, elected to plead guilty to one count of lewd act upon a child and one count of criminal sexual conduct with a minor — 3rd degree, according to the Solicitor’s Office and court records.

Evidence presented at the plea hearing established that between May 2010 and December 2013, the defendant would regularly travel to Greenville County from his residence in Charlotte to visit the minor victim and her family, prosecutors said.

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During these visits, prosecutors said, they would drive together to go out to eat and run errands,

“It was during these car rides the defendant would sit next to the victim and rub her vaginal area over and under her clothing,” Solicitor Walt Wilkins said in a statement.

“This conduct began when the child was approximately nine years old and lasted until she grew brave enough to tell the defendant to stop,” Wilkins said.

McCallister was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment suspended to one year active incarceration and five years probation by the Honorable Judge Stephen John.

McCallister will have to serve at least 85 percent of the one-year sentence before he’s eligible for parole.

He’ll also have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and will be placed on GPS monitoring upon his release from the Department of Corrections, Wilkins said.

New charges have been filed against a Jessamine County babysitter accused of abusing a four-month-old baby.

Kylie Jo ended up in the hospital after being in Erin Thompson’s care.

Now another family has come forward in the case and their child was also under Thompson’s care.

The other family came forward after the court case for Kylie Jo started.

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The indictment brought against Thompson has the first two counts involving Kylie Jo’s case and then two more for the other child police say was abused.

Thompson ran a daycare has been charged twice with Criminal Abuse 1^st degree and Assault 1^st degree for both children.

Kylie Jo’s aunt, Lauren Sizemore, says that Kylie doesn’t look the same.

“She doesn’t look the same, but yet she is still the laughing, smiling Kylie like she was before. When you look in her eyes, it’s just not the same,” said Sizemore.

Thompson has a video arraignment scheduled for Friday as well as another court appearance on the 24th.

A scam is going around on sites such as Craigslist.

It has been around for years, but many don’t know about it.

Andrew Howell was almost scammed when he posted tail lights from an old car on Craigslist.

The two tail lights were $200, but instead, the buyer “accidentally” sent him two money orders for about $1,800 a piece.

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The buyer then told Howell through text to deposit the money orders into his account and to take out the difference.

Howell then questioned whether or not the money orders were real.

“He was very pushy even after I told him I was going to the police department because they looked fake,” said Howell.

The man told Howell he was a legit business man, but the two money orders were identical. They had the same signatures and same serial numbers.

WalMart confirmed that the money orders were fake.

Lexington Police tell LEX 18 that this scam happens several times a day and that Howell was lucky he picked up on it.

“I could see this happening to many, many people, it’s kind of sad,” said Howell.

This has been a trying week for loved ones and friends of a missing man in Burke County.  Investigators with the Sheriff’s Office are searching for 63-year-old Simon Powell after he left home Wednesday, June 1 and never returned.

“I just pray that somebody will come up and give us some closure,” a niece said while looking at a picture of Powell, her uncle.

The Burke County family is waiting in faith for Powell, who went missing last week from his River Road home.

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Tanesha Brown, another niece said, “It just seems unreal right now.  It just seems puzzling and it’s very unreal.”

Brown and Powell’s son, one of three adult children, a wife and several relatives want him back home.

“I want him to walk through the door right now,” said Brown.

Investigators with the Burke County Sheriff’s Office said Powell left his River Road home in his truck, a 2012 Ford Pickup truck.  Investigators located the truck they believe Powell left home in that night on Wilson Road the next morning, but it was burned.  Those investigators said the truck was placed there.  This makes searching for Powell difficult because they don’t know where to look for him.

His family tells News Channel 6 that he never really left home at night and they aren’t sure where he could have been going.  What they do know is he was wearing a blue shirt and blue pants, both Dickies.

“He had something to do every day, but not particularly at night to just leave his house and not tell anyone that he will be gone for a long time,” Brown explained.

The family keeps looking at photos of Powell, a logger by trade, trying to understand what’s going on and it’s their hope someone notifies Burke County Sheriff’s Office with a tip and he returns home.

“He is a family man.  He is a loving person.  He did anything he could to help anybody.  So, if anybody knows anything they need to please send him home,” urged Brown.

Nicholasville Police are searching for a man and woman accused of stealing from a Jessamine County store.

The incident happened back on April 1 around 7:30 pm. A female and a male were observed on video entering the business through the main doors. A few minutes after the couple was captured on surveillance, the woman, identified as Christin Hubbard, was seen leaving the business alone. Moments later, the male suspect, identified as William Tyler Burgin, is seen on video running from the store carrying several expensive purses.

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Both fled the area in a unknown vehicle in a unknown direction.

If you know the whereabouts of Burgin and Hubbard you are asked to call the Nicholasville Police Department, 859 885-9467, investigations division.

State Police have arrested one of the two suspects accused in the deaths of a Kentucky couple.

Troopers found 28-year-old Eugene Wade Jr. around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night in Dry Ridge. He faces two counts of murder for the deaths of Devin Payton, 33, and Brandy Davidson, 25. The two were found dead last Saturday. Payton’s body was discovered in Montgomery County and Davidson was found in Wolfe County.

Detectives confirm that both murders are connected.

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Another suspect, 24-year-old Devante Hall remains on the run. He is considered armed and dangerous.

State police have also arrested Carla Hunt and Talmadge Branham and charged them with tampering with physical evidence in connection to the death of Payton. According to an arrest citation, Hunt and Branham were with three men at a cabin in Wolfe County. At some point, there was an altercation that ended with one of the men being shot. The group allegedly dropped the body off in Montgomery County, and then Hunt and Branham allegedly took the others back to Lexington and took them to a gentleman’s club.

Police responded to a stabbing on East Loudon Wednesday.

Police say that two people were stabbed.

They believe the stabbing was over a possible disagreement over property.

Crews in the area and in the air are searching for one suspect.

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The suspect is a black male with light skin and a possible mustache. He is believed to be in this 30s, wearing a blue shirt and dark pants.

Police say he fled down Idlewild Court.

The injuries are non-life-threatening.

HAZMAT and special operations units were called to a home on Gerald Drive in Lexington on Wednesday.

A man and a woman were taken from the scene and decontaminated.

Crystal Wyman,28, and Nancy McCarty, 41, were both charged with Possession of Methamphetamine Precursors and George Davis, 30, was charged with Manufacturing Methamphetamine and Possession of a Controlled Substance First.

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Police say Davis also had active Probation Violation warrants out of Florida for the Manufacturing of a Dangerous Substance.

While HAZMAT crews were investigating the home, journalists at the scene were told to move away from the home for their own safety.

The home is near a daycare.