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Abclocal.go.com 3/12/14 The search continues for a suspect believed to have exposed himself to multiple girls inIrvine.  The suspect exposed himself to girls in a series of three incidents on January 17,February 14 and March 4 between 1 and 5 pm.  At about 1 pm a man approached a 12year old girlas she walked home from school near the Paseo Westpark and Hearthstone areas.  The suspectreportedly asked the girl for directions.  Police say he followed her to her house, but shewas able to get inside safely.  The suspect is described

Newsday
5/14/14
Brian Fanelli, a 54 year old former police chief in Mount Pleasant, NY, has been indicted onchild pornography charges.  Fanelli downloaded and shared three videos containing childpornography.  He was police chief for just two months before he was suspended upon his arrestin January.  He resigned in March.  He had taught sex-abuse awareness classes toschoolchildren. 
(New York)

Abclocal.go.com 4/4/14 Jose Rigoberto Sanchez, a 29 year old former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy, wassentenced on Friday to nine years in state prison for raping a woman while on the job.  Sanchez avoided trial by pleading no contest last month to one count each of rape undercolor of authority and soliciting a bribe.  He was arrested in July after a six monthinvestigation into an incident on September 22, 2010, in which he was accused of raping a woman whohe had pulled over for an outstanding warrant.  According to prosecutors,

Newsday/Gary Dymski 5/2/14 East Hampton Town police are investigating the report of a man driving a white care whoasked a 13 year old boy on Thursday if he needed a ride home from school.  The Springs Schoolstudent was approached while walking on Springs Fireplace Road after getting off his school bus atabout 3:30 pm.  The man, heavyset and shirtless with grey hair and a mustached, was driving awhite sedan and asked several times if the boy needed a ridge home.  The student answered nobut the man kept asking before driving

Los Angeles News 3/11/14 Jonathan Adam Roldan, a 23 year old former East Los Angeles Esteban Torres High Schoolvolleyball coach, pleaded no contest Tuesday to sexually molesting two 15 year old girls.  Heis accused of having sex with one of the girls in his pickup truck and the other he inappropriatelytouched.  He pleaded no contest to one felony count of unlawful sexual intercourse with onevictim and one misdemeanor count of child molestation including the second victim.  He facesthree years in state prison and will be required to register as a

Newsday/Gary Dymski 4/23/14 Vincent Sparagano, the 44 year old former director in a Lindenhurst community theater group,The Spotlight Players, was convicted Tuesday of possessing child pornography.  Sparagano, of530 South Ninth Street, Lindenhurst, was found guilty in a jury trial of four felony counts ofpossessing a sexual performance by a child.  He was found not guilty of four felony counts ofpromoting a sexual performance by a child.  Sparagano faces up to 1 1/13 years to 4 years inprison on each count, which could run consecutive because of his possession of four