ARREST IN PORN E-MAIL

PFMLIT General, INTERNET OFFENDER CASES, LONG ISLAND NEWS, NEW YORK

Newsday/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher

Richard W. Klass, a 48 year old Lindenhurst man, has been arrested for sending sexually explicite-mail messages and pornography to a 14 year old boy who he met through family friends and begantalking to him on the phone and chatting online. Klass, of 219 N. Sixth Street, was arrested afterthe boy's mother found e-mail messages with graphic sexual messages and called police. Detectivesdon't believe the boy was physically abused. Klass pleaded not guilty to first-degree disseminatingindecent material to a minor and was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail. Computer Crimes SectionDet. Sgt. John Cowie said it is possible there are more victims. Anyone with information is askedto call the Computer Crimes Section at 631-852-6269.

(New York)