Lexington police are investigating an unusual robbery that happened on Lexington’s north side.

A man collecting donations for the Veterans Outreach Program outside of the Walmart on Russell Cave says a white man in a hoodie ripped away his donation jar and the table to which it was attached. He claims the man then threw the items in a pickup truck. The pickup truck was caught on surveillance footage.

The victim’s daughter says her father was injured and taken to the hospital as a precaution. He also says a handgun was used.

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“They drug my dad up to there.  He was holding the table and they drug him clear across the parking lot there.  But the jug is bolted down, you know what I mean?  So they had to take the table and all and they threw that in the back of the pickup,” said the victim’s daughter Ashley Brock.

Kentucky State Police in Richmond are investigating a fire that destroyed a residence on Carter School Road in Lincoln County on March 17^th.

The fire was reported just after 9:00 a.m. and it completely destroyed the residence.

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KSP Post 7 requests that anyone with information regarding the fire contact KSP at (859) 623-2404 or the Arson Task Force at 1-800-27ARSON (1-800-272-7766 FREE).

The Arson Task Force is offering up to a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for starting the fire.

A Laurel County couple has been indicted after teachers say a student showed up to school with severe burns on his hands in January.

The couple claims it started out as a game.

James Stark and Amanda Crow are charged with criminal abuse of children and wanton endangerment after investigators say Stark poured lighter fluid on the hands of Crow’s children and lit them on fire. He claimed he was trying to teach the children, ages seven and ten, not to play with fire.

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Investigators say Stark, 28, said in an interview that it was all just a game.

The seven-year-old child showed up to school with second degree burns on the back of his hands.

“They said he had flimsy band-aids on his hand and there was some ooziness coming from the burns,” said Detective Stacy Anderkin with London Police.

Crow is charged with complicity.

“Mrs. Crow failed to stop his actions and she also failed to seek medical attention for the children,” said Anderkin.

The children are now in the care of relatives and Crow and Stark are in the Laurel County Detention Center.

A man died in Elliott County on Thursday after a single vehicle accident.

KSP Troopers say Clyde M. Oliver, 75, of Sandy Hook, sustained fatal injuries during the accident.

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The accident is still under investigation.

Although details are limited at this time, Lexington Police do confirm that they are investigating a robbery at a gas station.

The robbery occurred at the Circle K on Buckhorn Drive around 5:15 a.m. Thursday morning. The clerk told officers that a black male in his late 40s or 50s implied that he had a gun and demanded money.

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The suspect took cash from the register and fled on foot in an unknown direction. He is described as six feet tall weighing around 200 pounds.

U.S. Marshals in Detroit, Michigan have arrested the man wanted in connection with a murder on Russell Cave Road in January.

Devonte Martez Hobbs, 21, was arrested Tuesday and is being held in the Wayne County Detention Center.

Hobbs, charged with murder and first-degree robbery in the death of Timothy Brown Jr., who was shot and killed in the parking lot of the McDonald’s on Russell Cave Road on January 12.

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Employees at the store called police after hearing multiple gunshots and a crash. A car, driven by the victim, had crashed into a tree near the restaurant.

Brown was taken to UK Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Hobbs will be extradited to Lexington later this month.

Chad Alan Dempster, 44, left on Sunday saying he was headed to visit relatives in southern Iowa. He never arrived, and there has been no activity on his phone or credit cards, according to the sheriff’s office.

Authorities said Dempster doesn’t have any known medical conditions.

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Dempster is described as a white male, 6 feet tall and weighing 210 pounds with brown hair. He was last seen driving a gray 2012 Ford F-150 pickup with license plate 125-YKN. He was wearing a black Iowa Hawkeyes sweatshirt, black running pants and black shoes.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Black Hawk County Sheriff’s Communication Center at 291-2515.

A second murder arrest has been made in Harlan County after human remains were discovered in a wooded area.

The remains were located in a wooded area off of Mountain Oaks Subdivision, which is located near the Cawood community in Harlan County.

Police charged Michael Curtis, 27, of Cawood with murder, tampering with physical evidence, and abuse of a corpse. He was arrested Tuesday night.

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On Wednesday night, police arrested Kayla Curtis, 30. Kayla has been charged with murder, tampering with physical evidence, and abuse of a corpse.

At this time the victim’s information cannot be released until the State Medical Examiner’s Office makes a positive identification of the remains.

Detectives from Post 10 have received enough information to believe this case is involving a missing person’s case from Harlan.

Both Michael and Kayla Curtis are in the Harlan County Detention Center.