Category Archive for : ‘GOOD POLICING CATCHES SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS’

By Glenn Puit

A sex offender who attempted to commit lewd acts against a child he was babysitting in 2003 is now facing child pornography charges in the Las Vegas Valley.

William Spahr, 38, was arrested by Las Vegas police on June 17, then charged in Las Vegas Justice Court Tuesday with two counts of possession of visual pornography of a person under 16. An arrest report in the case indicates the charges stem from an alert Google sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in September 2020 indicating

Stephanie Moore

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A teacher is accused of sexually abusing a student, according to the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office.

Albert Pavon, a teacher at Erwin High School, is charged with five sex offense charges related to the sexual abuse of a student, according to detectives with the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Unit

The charges are:

Indecent liberties with a child

Indecent liberties with a student

Three counts of felony dissemination of obscene material to a minor

Pavon is being held at the Buncombe County Detention Facility on a $50,000 bond.

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By Warren Kulo

PASCAGOULA, Mississippi — He begged for forgiveness, but in the end there would be none.

James Walley, a 57-year-old former paramedic, was sentenced Monday to 40 years in a Mississippi state prison, without possibility of parole, for the sexual assault of six patients in the back of ambulances, as well as the sexual molestation of two children, ages 6 and 7 at the time of the crimes.

“The defendant committed the most vile of sexual assaults upon people who were at their most helpless and vulnerable moments in life,” said

By: News 12 Staff

A Florida man is facing charges for allegedly contacting a 13-year-old girl and persuading her to meet him in Dutchess County to engage in sexual activities.

The complaint says police were alerted about a teen being raped by a subject named Thomas at a hotel in the town of Poughkeepsie.

When they arrived, they found 32-year-old Thomas Rivera in the room and the girl in the bathroom. Police say the girl said Rivera tried to rape her.

Rivera is charged with endangering the welfare of a child, sexual abuse and

By Ed Lewis

WILKES-BARRE — A Clarks Summit man’s cooperation with Luzerne County detectives combined with intellectual and physical disabilities earned him a reduced sentence for possessing and sharing child sexual abuse materials.

Daniel Kopetchny, 41, was arrested in November 2020 by county detectives and Pittston police, members of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and state police Northeast Computer Crime Unit, after investigating a cyber tip he uploaded a video via Facebook Messenger. At the time, Kopetchny was residing on South Main Street, Pittston.

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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