Kentucky State Police in Dry Ridge are working to identify two men suspected of cashing fraudulent checks.

Authorities say the checks were cashed at Kentucky Bank locations in Fayette County and Scott County.

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Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Kentucky State Police in Dry Ridge at 859-428-1212.

A 13-month-old girl who was abducted from her home in Poplar on Tuesday night has been found dead.

The discovery of a body at a busy Lexington intersection prompted a death investigation and caused traffic delays early Friday morning.

Officials say the body was discovered at New Circle and Industry Roads just after 4 a.m.

According to Lexington Police, the victim is described as a black male, between 40-to-50-years-old.

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Although it is unclear how the body ended up at the intersection, the coroner does not believe the man was a victim of a hit-and-run.

According to the coroner, the incident could turn into a criminal investigation.

Part of New Circle Road was closed for a few hours until authorities wrapped up their initial investigation.

Traffic was back to normal in the area just before 7 a.m.

Three people face a capital murder charge in the death of a 19-year-old El Paso man reported missing earlier this month.

Police said the body of Tristan Lee Mina was found in desert area 10 miles off of Interstate 10 in Hudspeth County on Friday.

Mina was reported missing on April 9 after he was last seen leaving his residence around 2 a.m. Just before 9 a.m. that same day, police were dispatched to 500 Buena Suerte Drive when a person found several items belonging to Mina.

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Police went to Mina’s residence and his workplace for a welfare check, but he was not found.

Samuel Rico, 20; Jose Guadalupe Andrade, 25; and Jesse Adrian Martinez, 19, were arrested and face capital murder charges.

According to police records, the three suspects were planning to rob Mina during a drug deal. Rico, Andrade and Martinez were going to buy cocaine from Mina.

Police detectives said Martinez and Rico told them that Andrade beat Mina to death with a baseball bat, striking Mina in the back of the head. The report states Rico said Andrade continued beating Mina on the ground, hitting him four to five times.

They also told investigators that Mina’s body was put inside the trunk of the car and taken to the desert. According to the report, Rico admitted to helping Andrade place Mina’s body in the trunk

The report states Martinez was then dropped off at his residence and then Rico and Andrade drove to the location 10 miles off of I-10 near the Fabens exit. In the report, Rico told detectives Mina’s body was set on fire and buried there.

The report states Martinez and Rico admitted to putting their clothes in a box along with Andrade’s clothing in a desert near west El Paso. The report states the trio then set the box on fire with the clothes they were wearing when they met Mina.

According to the report, there was a fourth person involved with the case who was also interviewed by investigators. According to the report, the fourth person helped the three suspects get rid of evidence, and provided gloves to Andrade. The report also states the fourth person witnessed the suspects burning evidence. Police said this fourth person has not been arrested.

Booking photos for the three men were not released as police said they continue their investigation.

The El Paso Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons Unit and the FBI are investigating the case.

When Cody Magee’s wife reported that her husband hadn’t returned from a kayaking trip off the Georgia coast, the Coast Guard launched a two-day search by land and sea.

Magee was eventually found alive — in Oklahoma. Authorities say he staged his disappearance to escape prosecution on charges that he sought sex with a child.

Magee, 38, of Savannah was being held Wednesday in Oklahoma City after failing to appear in court Monday on charges of child pornography and attempted child molestation in Effingham County west of Savannah, said Savannah-Chatham County police spokesman Sonny Cohrs.

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Sheriff’s deputies arrested Magee last June after undercover investigators posing online as a young teenager lured him to a home, said Sgt. Don White of the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office.

“He was chatting with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl,” White said. “He wanted to act out some rape fantasies with her.”

Magee shared images of child pornography during the online exchanges with undercover investigators, White said. During the arrest, he said, deputies found a handgun in Magee’s pocket.

Stuart Patray, identified by the public defender’s office for the Ogeechee Judicial Circuit as Magee’s lawyer, didn’t return a phone call Wednesday.

It wasn’t known if he would face additional charges for faking his disappearance, said Cohrs, who said Magee’s wife first reported him missing.

“He was supposedly going kayaking and was supposed to be gone for an hour,” Cohrs said. “He never came back.”

The Coast Guard launched a two-day search for Magee around Tybee Island, a beach community 18 miles east of Savannah, said Petty Officer 2nd Class Anthony Soto. Crews covered more than 2,500 square miles before the search was called off Tuesday night, Soto said.

A few hours before midnight Tuesday, a police officer in Oklahoma City pulled Magee over after a routine license plate check showed he had been reported missing, said Oklahoma City police Sgt. Gary Knight. Police found a handgun and rifle in his car, Knight said.

Magee talked with the officer and was taken to a hospital, Knight said, though he declined to say why. Savannah police said in a news release that Magee was “considered a danger to himself.”

Georgia authorities were working to extradite Magee.

Emergency crews responded to Bryan Station High School after a student was stabbed by another classmate.

It happened around 11 a.m. at the school. A student was transported from the scene via ambulance.

Sources tell LEX 18 that the student was stabbed with a pocket  knife and was taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries.

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The information was confirmed in a release from the school, notifying parents of the event. It read, “I’m disheartened to share with you that one of our students was assaulted this morning by another student with a pocket knife. The student who was hurt is being treated for non-life threatening injuries and was able to walk to the ambulance. The other student has been charged with assault in the first degree. This is an isolated incident and none of our other students are in any danger. There is no tolerance for violence of any kind at Bryan Station High School. We will send more communication soon, but wanted to make you aware of what happened.”

A federal jury in London has convicted a doctor, his wife and their clinic of drug trafficking, health care fraud and money laundering, for orchestrating a scheme in which they made millions of dollars by unlawfully prescribing large amounts of prescription pills to citizens of eastern Kentucky.

Dr. James “Ace” Chaney, 51, was convicted of conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, 62 counts of illegal distribution of controlled substances, 2 counts of maintaining a premise for drug distribution, conspiracy to commit money laundering, 20 counts of money laundering, conspiracy to commit health care fraud and 84 counts of health care fraud.

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Lesa Chaney, 50, the President and CEO of Ace Clinique of Medicine, LLC, was convicted of conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, 2 counts of maintaining a premise for drug distribution, conspiracy to commit money laundering, 20 counts of money laundering, conspiracy to commit health care fraud and 84 counts of health care fraud.

Ace Clinique of Medicine, LLC, was found guilty on over 180 counts of drug trafficking, health care fraud and money laundering.

The jury rendered its verdict after 13 hours of deliberation, following seven weeks of trial.

From 2006 to 2014, James and Lesa Chaney owned and operated Ace Clinique of Medicine, LLC, in Hazard, Ky. The evidence established that Dr. Chaney pre-signed prescriptions for controlled substances, to be filled out by clinic staff while he was vacationing or otherwise not present at the clinic. The evidence also established that Dr. Chaney knowingly provided prescriptions for controlled substances to individuals who were diverting the pills for sale and to individuals that were abusing the drugs. Dr. Chaney also required all of his patients to undergo monthly urine drug screening to test for the presence of the drugs he prescribed, as well as illegal narcotics. When the results showed the patients were not taking the prescribed pills, or were taking illegal narcotics, Dr. Chaney directed his staff to alter the test results to falsely indicate an appropriate result. These fraudulent test results were then submitted to Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers for payment. From 2009 to 2011, they billed Medicare for more urine drug screen tests than any provider or laboratory in Kentucky.

The evidence at trial also showed that patients would frequently wait eight hours or longer, each month, to be seen by a health care provider at the clinic. The examinations would then typically be of short duration and the patient would receive a prescription for controlled substances. The Chaneys would nonetheless bill for an office visit that falsely indicated a thorough physical examination had occurred. The evidence further showed that the Chaneys billed Medicare for work Dr. Chaney allegedly did while he was vacationing outside of the United States. Dr. Chaney also wrote prescriptions for controlled substances to an employee of the clinic, which he then took for himself.

The Chaneys billed Medicare more than $9,500,000 and billed Medicaid more than $6,300,000 during the period of the conspiracy. The money the Chaney’s made from the scheme was used for personal purchases, including a private plane, houses, vehicles, travel and personal luxury items.

“The defendants in this case combined a massive illegal drug distribution scheme with a massive healthcare fraud scheme,” said Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky. “The resulting criminal enterprise harmed countless Kentuckians, and sent the fraudulent bill to the American taxpayer. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of this victory in the effort to rid eastern Kentucky of this sort of criminal conduct, which has caused so much damage to our communities. Our trial team and our law enforcement partners at the FBI and the Kentucky State Police performed admirably in bringing these defendants to justice and they deserve our thanks.”

“The devastation of patients’ lives to facilitate the Chaney’s’ lavish lifestyle caused great harm to the people of southeastern Kentucky,” said Howard S. Marshall, Special Agent in Charge of the Louisville Division of the FBI. “The Federal Bureau of Investigation and its law enforcement partners will stay committed to the dismantlement of significant drug trafficking organizations in Perry County and the rest of Kentucky.”

U.S. Attorney Harvey, Special Agent in Charge Marshall and Richard Sanders, Commissioner of the Kentucky State Police, jointly announced the verdict.

The investigation was conducted by the FBI and the Kentucky State Police.

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Roger West and Andrew Sparks prosecuted this case on behalf of the federal government.

The Chaneys are scheduled for sentencing on August 25, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. The most serious offenses carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. The Court, however, will impose sentence after consideration of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and the applicable federal statutes.