LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) — A tornado has touched down in suburban Kansas City, but there are no immediate reports of injuries. Julie Adolphson, meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, said the tornado first touched down near Unity Village’s 1,200-acre campus in Lee’s Summit before 7 p.m.

She says there are indications of damage, but so far no reports of injuries. Unity Village is the site of Unity World headquarters.

Another likely tornado hit just southwest of Pleasant Hill. The storm also brought 2 to 4 inches of rain.

Adolphson says crews would conduct damage assessments Thursday.

A dispatcher for the Jackson County Sheriff’s also says there have been no immediate reports of injuries.

A former deputy sheriff in southeast Nebraska who is already on probation for making up a traffic crash and shooting is in trouble with the law again, this time on child sex charges.

According to online court records, Josh Nincehelser was charged with first degree sexual assault of a child, incest and child abuse. He is back behind bars, unable to post $150,000 bond. A preliminary hearing is scheduled July 22.

Earlier this year, Mr Nincehelser was granted probation for his conviction on charges of criminal mischief and false reporting. In June of last year Nincehelser was on patrol for the Richardson County Sheriff’s Office, when he shot himself in the arm, and fired shots at his squad car. He later told authorities he was assaulted when he stopped to assist a motorist.

A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for having thousands of images of child pornography on his computer.

Duane E. Elliott, 57, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple to seven years in federal prison without parole. Elliott has also paid $3,000 in restitution to one of the victims whose images of child sexual abuse were included in his collection of child pornography.

On Oct. 28, 2014, Elliott pleaded guilty to two counts of receiving child pornography over the Internet.

A detective with the Independence, Mo., Police Department identified Elliott’s computer as sharing child pornography over the Internet. Elliott used a peer-to-peer file-sharing program to make approximately 20 movies of child pornography available for distribution over the Internet on multiple occasions.

Law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Elliott’s residence and seized multiple computers and electronic storage media, which contained thousands of images of child pornography. Investigators found more than 1,000 movies and more than 2,500 images of child pornography. Some of the movies depicted sexually explicit conduct with children under the age of 12, and some depicted children in bondage or subjected to other sadistic or violent sexual abuse. Among the videos were two instructional videos, one titled, “How to Molest Juveniles.”

According to court documents, Elliott had more child pornography stored on an encrypted hard drive that could not be examined.

An Independence, Mo., man and a Kansas City, Mo., man were sentenced in federal court Tuesday for their roles in a $1.2 million arson and insurance fraud conspiracy.

Joshua Stamps, 28, of Independence, Mo., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple to 12 years and one month in federal prison without parole. Co-defendant John S. Wayne, 31, of Kansas City, was sentenced to five years in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Stamps to pay $429,991 in restitution and Wayne to pay $198,824 in restituiton, for which they are jointly and severally liable.

On June 12, 2014, Stamps pleaded guilty to leading the arson and insurance fraud conspiracy and to using fire to commit a federal crime (mail fraud). Stamps, Wayne and four other co-conspirators – all of whom have pleaded guilty and were sentenced today – bought, over-insured and burned five houses, all in Kansas City, Mo. The total actual loss to insurance companies in the scheme was $434,938, while the total intended loss was $1,196,840.

Beginning in July 2007, Stamps bought houses costing from $6,500 to $15,000. Stamps used co-conspirators Michael Smith, 27, and his mother, Randy Stamps, 57, both of Kansas City, Mo., as straw owners for three of the houses. Other co-conspirators acted as tenants so the properties could be classified as rentals.

In the conspiracy that lasted until 2013, Stamps and his co-conspirators insured the houses for much more than the purchase price, in amounts from $88,000 to $307,000. Stamps, Wayne and co-defendant Roy Richard, 34, of Wichita, Kan., burned the houses. The listed owner of the house that burned would then claim a total loss with the applicable insurance company and would falsely claim they had no knowledge of, or involvement in, the fire. Stamps and his co-conspirators made false statements on the insurance applications, such as that the houses were rented and/or occupied, that there were valuable contents in the houses, and that the houses had been renovated.

Wayne pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit arson, use of a fire to commit a federal crime, mail fraud and wire fraud. In addition to the conspiracy, Wayne also pleaded guilty to one count of arson.

Wayne was injured while setting a house on fire and forced to shed his burning pants in the street. On April 23, 2011, the house at 4901 Agnes partially burned, and the fire was determined to be arson. Two days later, on April 25, 2011, Wayne and Stamps burned the house in another arson fire. This time the house was a total loss.

A witness saw Wayne running from the house with his pants on fire. Wayne took his pants off and left them in the street. Kansas City police detectives recovered burned sweatpants and boots from the street; DNA recovered from the pants confirmed that Wayne wore the burned pants discarded in the street. A chemical analysis established that the pants and boots had evaporated gasoline on them.

Wayne was admitted to Research Medical Center with severe burns to his legs later that day. Wayne told investigators that Stamps, who was driving, refused to take him to a hospital and instead took him home and bought him some burn cream. Wayne said the burn cream wasn’t going to work so he went to the hospital.

Smith, Randy Stamps and Richard each received probationary sentences Tuesday. Co-defendant Luis Esquivel, 50, a citizen of Costa Rica residing in Kansas City, Mo., was sentenced to time served (approximately 13 months).