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April

Acadia Crime Stoppers: Help needed in locating three sex offenders

Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office Sex Offender Unit is asking for the public’s assistance with locating three fugitives:

Eric Joseph Cormier, Jr., 56, has brown hair and brown eyes. He’s 5’7″ in height and weighs 180 pounds. His last known address is the 800 block of W. Bernard St. in Rayne. Cormier is wanted for failure to register as a tier 3 sex offender.

Jonathan Glenn Regan, 44, has blonde hair and brown eyes. He’s 5’10” in height and weighs 205 pounds. His last known address is the 100 block of J. W.

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07

April

Former Decatur pastor faces additional sex crime charges in Tennessee

by: Carson Burns

GRUNDY COUNTY, Tenn. (WHNT) — A former Decatur pastor accused of several sex crimes in Morgan County is also facing four additional charges in Tennessee.

Grundy County Sheriff Clint Shrum told News 19 that Danny Pitts was taken into custody and charged with statutory rape, two counts of sexual battery by an authority figure and statutory rape by an authority figure.

Pitts was arrested in Morgan County back in November. He was charged with one count of first-degree sodomy and one count of second-degree sodomy. Pitts was the former pastor

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07

April

Stranger Sought in Brazen NYC Subway Sex Attack During Rush Hour

By: News 12

Police are looking for a stranger who grabbed a 23-year-old woman walking down the subway stairs and threw her against the bars separating the steps from the platform before sexually attacking her during a morning rush hour last week.

The woman was heading toward a southbound Q train at the Prospect Park station around 7:10 a.m. Thursday when cops say the stranger abruptly attacked her.

He put his hand over the woman’s mouth and began to tear at her clothing while groping her, authorities said. He ran off when another

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07

April

Woman Sexually Assaulted While Jogging In Greenwich Village: NYPD

By Gus Saltonstall

GREENWICH VILLAGE, NY — A woman was jogging Sunday morning on the Hudson River Greenway in Greenwich Village when she was attacked by a man riding a bike and sexually assaulted, police said.

The attack happened around 6:10 a.m. at Pier 40 near West and Clarson streets, police said.

The 39-year-old woman was running northbound on the path when a man riding a bike approached her, pushed her to the ground, and began choking her, police said. The man proceeded to sexually assault her, before snatching her cell phone and

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07

April

Police: 73-year-old West Islip man arrested for possession of child porn

By: News 12 Staff

A West Islip man has been arrested for possessing child pornography, according to authorities.

Police say Nicholas Pedagno, 73, was posing as a younger person on at least eight different social media accounts across seven platforms.

Following a search of his iPad, detectives say his username included lisabutterfly2, love361569 and others.

Neighbors with children were stunned to hear of the accusations.

“I think it’s terrible, it’s not something you want on your block,” says West Islip resident Mike Robertson. “My kids walk home from school down that road every day.”

Laura Ahearn

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07

April

Teenage girl allegedly sexually assaulted while being transported in ambulance speaks out

A 16-year-old Temecula girl, on Friday March 25, was allegedly sexually assaulted by a 22-year-old employee with American Medical Response Riverside while in the back of ambulance.

The teenage victim, who CBSLA is not naming, said she took the bus to school, as she always does, but while in class, she was sent to the office.

“The teacher speculated something was wrong with me because I was trying to sleep,” she told CBSLA.

From the office, she was transported by the first ambulance to Temecula Valley Hospital, but her stay there wasn’t very

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