Lexington Police have made an arrest in connection to a 2015 double shooting investigation.

The shooting happened on November 17 of last year. New details released show police believe that before George Waide was involved in the shootings , he was committing another crime entirely.

According to court documents, police say the day of violence may have started with a kidnapping. One victim was found on La Salle Road that day. A second victim was later dropped off at the hospital by a man police later identified as Waide.

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During the course of the investigation, police have discovered Waide came into contact with the girlfriend of the first shooting victim and allegedly abducted her. The woman told police that earlier in the day she was approached by Waide in the Russell Cave Road shopping center. She says he and two other men shoved her in the back of an SUV at gunpoint, placed a bag over her head, forced her to strip and threatened to kill her if she did not contact her boyfriend and arrange for them to meet.

She says she was only allowed to get dressed after she obeyed their orders. Police found surveillance video and a witness that confirmed her story.

Waide was taken into custody Thursday. He’s now charged with kidnapping and tampering with physical evidence after police also found the car he was driving that day hidden in a parking lot riddled with bullet holes.

He’s due to be arraigned Thursday morning on these charges at the Fayette County Courthouse.

The final defendants in a drug trafficking operation were sentenced this week in United States District Court, by United States District Judge Greg N. Stivers, to prison sentences for their roles in a money laundering and methamphetamine distribution network operating from Fresno, California, to Allen County, Kentucky, and included the illegal possession of 26 firearms and more than 3,700 rounds of ammunition, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.

Bradley Burton Brown 37, of Allen County, and Ashley Dawn Kendall, 25, of Franklin, Kentucky, directed a conspiracy that distributed more than 80 grams of crystal methamphetamine and diverted the proceeds through pre-paid bank cards, with co-defendants Adam Scott Gallagher and Kevin Joseph Willey, between March 2014, and February 26, 2015.

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Brown, who was in custody, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison and a five year term of supervised release and Kendall was taken into custody following her sentencing of 48 months in prison and a three year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.

Co-defendant Willey was sentenced to 110 months in prison and a five year period of supervised release, and Gallagher, who was living in California, was sentenced to 36 months in prison and a five year term of supervised release. Both were sentenced on March 10, 2016, by Judge Stivers in Bowling Green.

According to the plea agreements, Brown and Kendall would direct Willey to ship packages of crystal methamphetamine from Fresno, CA to Gallagher, located here in the Western District of Kentucky. Once the methamphetamine was received by Gallagher, he would then deliver it to Brown and Kendall to distribute. Brown and Kendall would conceal payments to Willey for the methamphetamine by using prepaid Green Dot Bank cards. They would load the cards with the proceeds from the sale of methamphetamine here in the Western District of Kentucky and then provide Willey with the card’s pin number allowing him to obtain the loaded cash in California. According to DEA chemical analysis, the 81.2 grams of methamphetamine recovered from Brown and Kendall on September 17, 2014, tested at over 95 percent purity resulting in a total of 77.7 grams of actual methamphetamine.

Further, on September 17, 2015, Brown, then an unlawful user of a controlled substance, possessed the following firearms: 1. Llama (Gabilondo & Cia), .40 caliber pistol, model XII; 2. High Standard, .22 caliber revolver, model Sentinel; 3. Jennings Firearms, .22 caliber pistol; 4. Keltec, CNC Industries, .380 caliber pistol, model P3A T; 5. Phoenix Anns Co., .25 caliber pistol, model Raven; 6. Marlin Firearms Co., .30-.30 caliber rifle, model336CS; 7. Savage, .243 caliber rifle, model Stevens 200; 8. Browning, 12 gauge shotgun, model Light 12; 9. Ruger, .22 caliber rifle, model 10/22; 10. Marlin Firearms Co., .22 caliber rifle, model Golden 39A; 11. Mossberg, 12 gauge shotgun, model 835 Ulti-Mag; 12. New England Firearms, 12 gauge shotgun, model Pardner; 13. Savage, 20 gauge shotgun, model Stevens 94; 14. Marlin Firearms Co., .22 caliber rifle, model XT-22; 15. Winchester, .30-.30 caliber rifle, model 94 (stolen); 16. Marlin Firearms Co., .22 caliber rifle, model 80; 17. Mossberg, 410 gauge shotgun, model500E; 18. Winchester, .22 caliber rifle, model 190; 19. Winchester, .22 caliber rifle, model190; 20. Winchester, .22 caliber rifle, model 190; 21. Keystone Sporting Arms, .22 caliber rifle, model Cricket; 22. Savage, .22 caliber rifle, model Stevens 87A; 23. Winchester, .22 caliber rifle, model67; 24. Marlin Firearms Co., .22 caliber rifle, model 75C; and 3,707 rounds of assorted ammunition.

Also, on September 17, 2014, Kendall, being an unlawful user of a controlled substance possessed a Romarm/Cugir, .762 rifle, model GP WASR 10/63 and a Marlin Firearms Co., .22 caliber rifle, model 99M1.

Assistant United States Attorney Mac Shannon prosecuted the case.  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Barren River Drug Task Force conducted the investigation.

Mark Allen Hartley, the owner of Patriot Computers, a Virginia corporation, entered pleas of guilty today, in United States District Court, before Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr., to multiple wire fraud charges related to the theft of $809,205.43 from 434 victims, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.

According to the four count indictment and facts admitted today during his guilty plea, from December 1, 2012, through April 14, 2014, Hartley, age 55, devised a scheme to defraud First Citizens Bank and its customers. At the time, Hartley operated a business called Spartan Group Inc., dba Patriot Computers. Patriot Computers sold computer equipment to its customers on installment sales contracts.  Customers of Patriot Computers agreed to have specified amounts of money taken from their paychecks on a regular basis until their purchases were paid in full.  These customers completed payment authorization forms for these payment arrangements, and then Patriot Computers submitted these forms to First Citizens Bank in Hardin County, Kentucky.  First Citizens Bank, through its bill payment service, would then transfer the payments from each customer’s paycheck to Patriot Computers’ account at Wells Fargo Bank until the customer’s contract with Patriot Computers was paid in full.

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As part of the scheme and artifice to defraud, Hartley created fraudulent payment authorization forms and transmitted those, by e-mail, to First Citizens Bank. This caused the bank to transfer unauthorized payments from victims’ paychecks to an account at Wells Fargo Bank, controlled by Hartley.  These unauthorized payments totaled approximately $809,205.43.

In entering his pleas of guilty, Hartley agreed that the United States could put Patriot Computers’ accounts receivable into receivership, with collections from those accounts being directed to pay restitution to victims.

Hartley, a Florida resident, faces a sentence of up to 80 years in prison and fines of up to $1,000,000, along with up to 3 years of supervised release.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Jason Snyder and Jessica R.C. Malloy and is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

A 58-year-old Kearny man who formerly taught at a local high school has been sentenced to 112 years in prison on convictions in a child molestation case.

A Pinal County Superior Court judge sentenced Louis Elvira on Monday on his March convictions for crimes that included sexual conduct with a minor, child molestation, sexual exploitation.

The County Attorney’s Office says the 6-year-old victim was not a student at the school where Elvira taught.

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According to the County Attorney’s Office, the investigation began after a friend found images of child pornography on Elvira’s laptop.

The Hamburg Township Police Department is asking for the public’s help in attempting to locate a 30-year old female Hamburg Township resident and her 7-year old daughter.

Amanda Elizabeth Hayward was last seen leaving her home in the area of Chilson Road and Bishop Lake Road at 3 a.m. on May 10. She left with her 7-year old daughter Sapphire Elizabeth Palmer in a black 2001 Chevrolet Prizm bearing Michigan License Plate of CC86371.

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Hayward’s purse, containing contents belonging to her including credit cards and cash, was found on the side of the road several miles from her residence at approximately 6:30 a.m. on May 10. The daughter failed to show up at her school on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Amanda Hayward is a 5 foot 7 inch, 120-pound white woman, 30 years old with long strawberry blond hair and blue eyes.

Her daughter, Sapphire Palmer, is described as white with long red hair, green eyes, 4 feet and 55 pounds. She was last seen wearing a purple night gown. Police say anyone who sees
either person or the car they were in, should call 911.

All other inquiries regarding this case can be made by calling the Hamburg Township Police Department at (810) 231-9391.

A woman reported missing from Casey County on Tuesday was found dead after her vehicle was discovered over an embankment.

Kentucky State Police say that Carla Monday, 54,  was reported missing by family members on Wednesday, May 11th after not showing up from work on Tuesday evening.  She also never reported to her noon shift at Amazon.com on Tuesday.

Troopers began searching the route she was known to take to work, and discovered the vehicle off of Stoner Creek Road.

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They believe the crash happened Tuesday around 11:40 a.m. when Monday was driving her 2005 Saturn. She ran off the road, ran over the embankment and struck several trees.

She was not wearing a seatbelt and was pronounced dead at the scene.

A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to a dozen years in federal prison for sex trafficking four teenage runaways from Ohio who were found in his car – along with 8,000 individual dose bags of heroin – during a traffic stop last year.

Forty-one-year-old Robert Middlebrook pleaded guilty in January to the sex-trafficking charges.

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The Clairton man was on probation for heroin possession when state troopers charged him with drug offenses and trafficking in minors -three of the girls were 17, one was 16 – after a traffic stop near Harrisburg in February 2015.  The state charges were dropped after federal investigators took over as part of an emphasis on human trafficking.

Middlebrook apologized Wednesday to the girls and their parents and for what he called “disappointing” his mother.