Investigators in Lexington are hoping that the public could help them identify the subject in a Metro PCS robbery.

The robbery happened on Thursday, March 9, around 5:15 p.m. at the Metro PCS on Alexandria Drive. An employee told officers that a man entered the business and briefly browsed the store before displaying a handgun and demanding money from the register.

Police say the employee complied with the suspect’s demands and he fled the store.

No other customers were in the store at the time of the robbery and no injuries were reported.

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The Lexington Police Department released surveillance video from the store in hopes someone will be able to provide additional information. You can watch it here.

The subject is described by Lexington Police as a white man, possibly in his 20’s, around six feet tall, wearing blue jeans, a gray hooded sweatshirt, and a blue knit hat.

Anyone with additional information about this investigation is asked to call the Lexington Police Department at (859) 258-3600.

Anonymous tips, including photos and videos, can be submitted by texting LEXPD plus the tip to CRIMES (274637). Information can also be sent anonymously through Bluegrass Crime Stoppers at (859) 253-2020 or www.bluegrasscrimestoppers.com.

An afternoon of fun for a Lexington mother and her children was ruined when someone broke into her car and stole her purse.

The mother was at the indoor fun park Malibu Jack’s with her kids when police say another woman broke into her car.

Detectives say the woman was caught on surveillance camera using the stolen credit cards at businesses near Malibu Jack’s.

“We have a good surveillance image of this woman, and we’re hoping people will look at her and be able to tell us, and call us and say who she is,” said Detective Mark Thomas with the Lexington Police Department.

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Lexington police say that these types of car break-ins and thefts are very common right now and they are cracking down on them.

“These guys can hit 20 to 30 targets in a night and they generate a lot of paperwork and a lot of headaches for a lot of our good citizens here,” said Thomas.

“We know if we get them on paper and get them locked up then hopefully, in the spring and summer months, when it’s warmer, and these guys typically are really out in force, that we’ll be able to curb that a little bit,” said Detective Thomas.

If you have any information about what happened, your tip could get you a cash reward from Bluegrass Crime Stoppers. You can call in your tip at (859) 253-2020 or text your information to ‘CRIMES’. Just text ‘LEX-PD’ in the message, along with your tip.

KSP has charged a Grayson County man with the murder of Tromain Mackall whose body was located inside of a toolbox in Spring Fork Creek.

Mackall had recently moved to Ohio County in western Kentucky from Maryland. The Navy veteran was reported missing in July 2016. Almost two weeks later, his body was found stuffed in a large truck tool box.

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KSP detectives say they were recently notified by the KSP Crime Lab that they were able to successfully link 48-year-old William E. Howard Jr. of Grayson County with the crime.

Howard Jr. was located Tuesday afternoon in Brandenburg and was arrested without incident.

He has been charged with murder, kidnapping (death of victim), and tampering with physical evidence.

Howard Jr. has been lodged in the Daviess County Detention Center.

Middlesboro Police say a local paramedic caught with drugs was using a city credit card to fill his personal vehicles.

According to an arrest citation obtained by WRIL, Brian Melton, 42, a paramedic with the Middlesboro Fire Department, used the a city credit card to pump $1,025.52 worth of gas into his vehicles from November 29, 2016 until March 6th.

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Police say they found a baggy with meth and the city’s credit card in Melton’s vehicle. Officers say a test of a plastic baggie in Melton’s wallet also field tested positive for meth.

Melton was arrested and charged with fraudulent use of a credit card, possession of controlled substance & possession of drug paraphernalia.

A Knox County man tells police he stabbed and killed a man who tried to leave his home Monday night.

State Police were called to the home of Brandon Burnett,27, on Moores Creek Road in Dewitt, around 11 pm. Troopers say they found Gary Hobbs,33, dead in the living room with two stab wounds to the chest.

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During a police interview, they say Burnett admitted taking several drugs including “Flaka” sometime that evening and stabbing Hobbs when he tried to leave his home. Burnett has been charged with murder.

Investigators in Whitley County say that a man already in jail is accused of conspiring to put a hit out on four people.

William Sutton, 54, had already been in the Whitley County Detention Center for seven months when he was brought up on new charges Friday.

“Essentially, he wanted to have four individuals killed. Two of them are elected officials and two are private citizens within this county,” said Whitely County Jailer Brian Lawson.

Names of the intended victims are not being released, but an arrest citation indicates that all four were involved in ongoing legal proceedings against Sutton.

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“To listen to Mr. Sutton and his plans, it’s quite disturbing,” said Lawson. “There are recorded conversations of Mr. Sutton trying to attempt to hire someone to kill these four individuals.”

Lawson said it was not clear who he was trying to conspire with, but that almost all calls to and from prisoners are monitored.

It is unclear at this point if anyone else may face charges in connection to the case.

Sutton has been booked in the Whitey County Detention Center more than a dozen times since 2007, including four previous charges of intimidating a participant in the legal process.

A Passaic County hotel manager was indicted Thursday on charges he allegedly stole more than $1 million from his boss and drained a $600,000 annuity belonging to him, officials said.

Vikas Mehta, 43, of Cliffside Park. (Courtesy of the Attorney General’s Office)

A state grand jury returned an indictment charging Vikas Mehta, 43, of Cliffside Park, with theft, money laundering, identity theft and forgery in a scheme that netted him $1,090,385 from the Fairbridge Inn in Wayne (formerly the Ramada Inn), the Attorney General’s Office announced in a statement.

Mehta used the stolen money to buy property in Englewood Cliffs and then sell it at a profit, authorities say.

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Authorities first learned of Mehta’s scheme after his boss notified Prudential in December 2015 that his $600,000 annuity had been cashed out. Authorities say Mehta used his boss’ personal information in January and February of 2013 to have the money in the account sent in the form of a check through Fed Ex, which he intercepted.

Authorities with the Office of Insurance Fraud Protection discovered Mehta had other large sums of money cashed out from IRA accounts and other insurance accounts belonging to his boss, officials said.

“Through his alleged actions, this defendant not only defrauded insurance companies, he cruelly victimized the man who paid his wages,” said Acting Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Christopher Iu. “We will vigorously prosecute anyone who seeks to enrich themselves by duping insurance companies into releasing money that belongs to hard working investors.”

Mehta faces decades in prison if he’s convicted on all counts.

Those concerned about insurance cheating and have information about a fraud can report it anonymously by calling the toll-free hotline at 1-877-55-FRAUD, or visiting www.njinsurancefraud.org.

– The man police called the “shirt mask bandit” has been given a 24 year prison sentence.

Last month, Steven Thomas pleaded guilty to 16 counts of robbery.

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Police believe he was behind several robberies in Erlanger, Crescent Springs, Fort Mitchell, Covington, and Florence from 2015 through 2016.

He was referred to as the “shirt mask bandit” due to the fact he tried to conceal his face behind a shirt during each robbery.

A Paris man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for possession of child pornography.

Matthew Tipton, 27, of Paris, received the recommended sentencing given to him by a jury in December 2016 when he was found guilty of 20 counts of possession of child pornography.

This case was the result of a 2015 investigation into Tipton by Attorney General Beshear’s Cyber Crimes Unit. The investigation uncovered more than 2,000 images and 150 videos depicting child pornography stored on devices in Tipton’s home.

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Beshear’s Office of Special Prosecutions prosecuted the case.

The Office of the Attorney General’s work to prevent child abuse in 2016 led to the arrest of more online child predators than any year in the history of the office. The number of arrests, indictments and convictions total nearly 80.

Tipton will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release.