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March 19, 2021
KHQ

A 67-year-old Spokane County man could be facing child pornography charges after evidence was spotted in his home by a deputy during the man’s arrest on a malicious mischief charge.

The Sheriff’s Office said in a release that deputies were arresting Gerald R. Fox at a north Spokane County residence on Thursday on a charge of 2nd Degree Malicious Mischief.

Before taking him to jail, the Sheriff’s Office said the deputy asked Fox if he wanted his home locked and Fox said yes.

“While Deputy Totman did as

March 18, 2021
Noah Feit, John Monk
The State

A Columbia attorney was arrested Thursday morning on child sex crime charges, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department said.

Harry Gregory, 60, was taken into custody without incident at about 7:40 a.m., the sheriff’s department said in a news release.

Later Thursday, a Richland County magistrate ordered that Gregory be released from the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center on a $100,000 personal recognizance bond.

Gregory’s lawyer, Greg Harris of Columbia, said in an interview that Magistrate Mildred Metts found that Gregory was neither a flight risk nor a

March 20, 2021
Dick Uliano
WTOP

A youth football coach in Calvert County, Maryland, has been charged with four counts of child sex abuse, and the county’s sheriff’s office believe there may be additional victims.

Moshe Michael Imel, 50, of Owings, is being held without bond following his arrest on Friday. He was taken into custody after the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office said two victims stepped forward accusing him of past sexual abuse.

The charges date back to 2012, according to the Sheriff’s Office, which went on to say the offenses may have been going

March 17, 2021
Alexis Ford
Review Journal

An 18-year-old man was arrested Tuesday after police identified him as the suspect in a west Las Vegas sexual assault.

Laparese Jones faces charges of sexual assault, battery with intent to commit sexual assault, battery by strangulation to commit sexual assault, attempted kidnapping and destroying or concealing evidence, jail records show.

The March 8 attack happened at an apartment complex on the 2000 block of Torrey Pines Drive. A woman was walking her dog about 7 a.m. when Jones pushed her to the ground and started sexually

March 3, 2021
Jen Balduf
Journal-News

A man arrested Wednesday morning in Ohio is awaiting extradition to Sweden, where he is accused of sexually assaulting a child.

Andrew G. Gonnella, 33, of Eaton, was arrested in Columbus without incident and taken to the federal courthouse in Columbus, according to a release from Deputy U.S. Marshal Daniel Tebo of the Southern District of Ohio.

He was booked Wednesday evening into the Butler County Jail in Hamilton.

Gonnella was wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service because he is a fugitive from Sweden, where he faces charges of gross

March 5, 2021
Lydia Lam, Jalelah Abu Baker
Channel News Asia

SINGAPORE: The maximum penalties for three types of sexual offences will each be increased by a year, after a review of how some sexual and violence-related crimes are sentenced by Singapore courts, Minister of Law K Shanmugam said on Friday (Mar 5).

On top of this, mitigation pleas in certain types of offences based on the offender’s educational qualifications or academic potential “should not carry much weight”, he said in a ministerial statement in Parliament.

“You shouldn’t be able to come to