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By the Chronicle, Centralia

CENTRALIA — In an announcement on Tuesday, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced the completion of one phase of his office’s “lawfully owed DNA project,” an effort to collect DNA samples from registered sex offenders from whom a required DNA sample had never been collected.

The successful completion of the project has resulted in 372 DNA samples being added to the Combined DNA Index System, CODIS, a national DNA database.

According to Ferguson, eight of those samples have matched DNA evidence already in the database. Of those eight matches,

By David Propper

A convicted rapist who was recently released from prison allegedly returned to the street where he committed his crime and sexually assaulted a woman, authorities said.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg police arrested Robert Lamar McFadden on two counts of first-degree rape and two counts of first degree sex offense, authorities said.

McFadden, 28 is accused of entering the victim’s Charlotte home through a window and sexually assaulting her Thursday morning, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said in a series of tweets.

McFadden attacked the 63-year-old, then forced her to drive him to a different location, police

By Caitlyn Shelton

(NewsNation) – Seventy missing children have been found following a three-week operation by authorities in West Texas.

Homeland Security Investigations out of El Paso, the Texas Department of Public Safety and multiple other federal, states and local investigators recovered the children as part of “Operation Lost Souls” from the end of April through mid-May.

According to HSI, the missing children ranged in age from 10-17 and included victims of sex trafficking and physical and sexual abuse. The agency says many of the children were runaways.

Authorities reported recovering the majority of

By Max Bennett

DELAWARE COUNTY, PA — A Delaware County man and woman have been charged with crimes related to child pornography and child sex assault, according to authorities.

Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer Wednesday said Gia Michelle Cubler, 20, of Woodlyn, and Matteo Thomas Arriaga, 20, of Ridley Park, have been charged with multiple felony counts for the production, distribution, and possession of child pornography, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault with a person less than ten years old, endangering the welfare of children,

LaDarius Alton Smith, 33, and Ulises Rene Garcia, 22, were each indicted Tuesday on two counts of sex trafficking of a child. Their attorneys did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

On April 12, agents with the North Texas Trafficking Task Force were notified by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services about a runaway juvenile. The 16-year-old girl was seen on a website that advertises commercial sex, according to court documents.

An undercover agent contacted Smith and arranged to meet the girl that evening for sex at a hotel

By: News 12 Staff

The NYPD is searching for a man who sexually assaulted and robbed a woman after attempting to lure her into his car.

Police say on Friday, the man pulled up to the 54-year-old woman on Saint Marks Avenue asking if she needed a ride.

When she refused, he got out of his SUV, walked up to her and struck her in the stomach before taking off with her purse.

The victim continued walking home but the man returned and met her down the block, sexually assaulted her and then left