Courts and Crime

    Moses Kahn of Forest Hills, N.Y., was arrested on February 25 on 13 counts of “Use of a communications system to facilitate certain offenses involving children.”
    Kahn engaged in sexually explicit communications with a person he had reason to believe was a
minor female in Bedford County.

    A local pizza store owner has been charged with four counts of felony embezzlement for allegedly failing to pay taxes, according to Bedford Police Chief Jim Day.
    Gianfranco Greco, 38, the owner of Frank’s Place on E. Main Street, is charged with failing to pay taxes on four different occasions, Day said. He said the city treasurer attempted to work with Greco on getting the taxes paid, but when those efforts failed the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office suggested going ahead with filing the charges.

    When the two men and one woman who broke into a Huddleston home in Dec. 2011 returned to that home to pick  up the merchandise they planned to take, a surprise was waiting for them — the owners of that home and two neighbors.

    One of those neighbors, Dave Vaden, had a gun.
    Two of the suspects were detained until authorities could show up; the third took off and was on the loose for more than a month.

    Beverly Stanley never expected to get all the items back that were stolen from her home when it was broken into Jan. 4.
    But there was one item—worth very little, if anything—that she had to have back: her nine-year-old laptop.
    That was not because of its value, but because of what was stored inside, several years worth of family photos. To Stanley, those were priceless.
    Some good police work, and a bit of luck, helped her wish come true.