A Smiths Grove woman was arrested Monday, accused of forging nine checks from the account of an elderly man who was in the hospital for six weeks and had his checkbook stolen, according to Detective Tim Ausbrooks of the Warren County Sheriff’s Department.

Miranda Shockley, 31, was charged with nine counts of second-degree forgery and one count of theft by unlawful taking over $300. The checks had been forged for a total of $710, Ausbrooks said.

The man had just been released from the hospital when be began receiving statements from his bank, he said.

Shockley’s name, phone number or Social Security number were on the six checks, which were cashed at the IGA Foodliner store in Smiths Grove, Ausbrooks said.

She is in Warren County Regional Jail on a $5,000 cash bond.

Arrest – Vickie Lynn Anderson, 37, of Russellville was charged Wednesday with first-degree possession of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance not in original container and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to a Bowling Green Police Department report.

Officers responded to a theft in progress at Church and Jackson streets involving a white Chevrolet Camaro. Anderson was driving a white Camaro. Officers found two crack cocaine rocks and several prescription pills in a plastic bag inside the car, according to the report.

Anderson is in Warren County Regional Jail on a $1,000 cash bond.

Burglary – Two juveniles were cited Monday on charges of second-degree burglary and theft over $300 Monday in the 700 block of Park Hills.

A paintball gun and video game equipment, valued at $555, were taken from the residence, according to city police.

Both juveniles were released to their parents.

Guilty plea – Two Bowling Green men arrested last year in conjunction with a cocaine ring pleaded guilty Monday in United States District Court, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Both Amil Telalovic, 24, 1337 Collegeview Drive, and Sam Chou, 26, 1902 Sandra St., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of crack cocaine and cocaine in Warren County, and to separate charges of distribution and attempted distribution of crack cocaine and powder cocaine in Warren County from August through November 2005, according to the release.

Telalovic and Chou were responsible for the distribution or attempted distribution of more than 150 grams of crack cocaine with a street value of more than $15,000, and almost 500 grams of powder cocaine with a street value of $50,000, according to the release. They were arrested Nov. 7 after a lengthy undercover investigation nicknamed &#8220Operation Doughboy,” carried out by the Bowling Green-Warren County Drug Task Force and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The Bowling Green Police Department assisted in the arrest.

Telalovic faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, a $29 million fine, and at least five years of supervised release following his jail time, according to the release. Chou’s maximum potential penalty includes life imprisonment, a $13 million fine, and at least five years of supervised release.

Both men are scheduled to be sentenced at 9 a.m. July 17 in Bowling Green.

Search

The subject was hiking with other Job Corps members Sunday, according to the release. When the group split into two groups, each thought the subject was with the other. During the two-day search, park rangers and staff, students, Bullitt County and Edmonson County search and rescue dogs, helicopters from the Air National Guard, Elizabethtown-based Kentucky Bloodhound Search and Rescue, and Great Onyx Job Corps employees and two Great Onyx Fire Teams searched the area.

Tuesday morning, searchers heard the student answer from off the trail. The student was able to walk to a nearby access road, where rangers transported the subject to an Edmonson County ambulance. The subject, who was not identified, was taken to T.J. Samson Community Hospital for assessment, according to the release.

It was not clear if the student was injured, or why the student had wandered from the trail.

Theft – A male pit bull is believed to have been stolen from the Bowling Green-Warren County Humane Society, 1925 Old Louisville Road, between April 15 and April 17, according to a city police report.

The 60-pound, black and white pit bull mix was in the quarantine kennel because Humane Society employees thought he was a bite case, according to the report. When they found out he wasn’t, they got permission from the dog’s owner to neuter him, which employees did on April 17. When the owner arrived to collect her dog, she told employees the dog neutered was not hers, and her dog couldn’t be found.

The dog is valued at $400.

Theft – A male subject scammed $180 from a Houchens cashier Saturday night at the Houchens store at 3170 Louisville Road, according to a police report. After a complex series of exchanges, in which the man asked for change for several large bills then tricked the cashier into thinking the cashier had made incorrect change, the man left. A manager checked the cash drawer a short time later and found it $180 short, according to the report.

Theft – A Bowling Green woman reported her white gold diamond ring missing after she mistakenly left her wallet on the roof of her car Friday, according to a city police report. The woman told police the ring was inside the wallet, which fell off her car as she drove away. She received a phone call Saturday from an employee at a Scottsville Road Minit Mart, who said a customer brought in the wallet. When the woman checked the wallet, she found everything except the ring, which is valued at $300.