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

September 4, 2019
Brie Stimson
Fox News

A Texas man was sentenced to 34 years in prison Tuesday two years after sending child pornography he created to undercover investigators, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of Texas.
Joshua James Holmstedt, 41, pleaded guilty in April to sexual exploitation of a girl under five years old and possession of child porn, the U.S. Attorney’s Office wrote in the release.
Holmstedt replied to an online post left by undercover investigators in 2017, indicating he had access to two minor children,

September 9, 2019
By Priscilla Aguirre
My San Antonio

Bexar County law enforcement agencies arrested or indicted 37 people on child sex crime charges in August, according to court records.

The suspects were charged with a an array of crimes, including indecency with a child, sexual assault of a child, aggravated sexual assault of a child and super aggravated sexual assault of a child.

August had the second highest number of suspects that were either arrested or indicted on child sex crimes so far this year. In July, 42 people had child sex crime charges,

August 13, 2019
Stephanie Pagones, Lorena Mongelli, Emily Saul
NY Post

The Broadway producer behind the failed musical “Rebecca” was busted Tuesday for downloading child-porn — as disgusted neighbors said he once went around collecting signatures to get faster Internet.
“For nine years, he was not even able to say ‘hello,’ and suddenly he was quite friendly. … He needed to have his Internet,’’ a female resident said of accused kiddie-perv neighbor Ben Sprecher, 65, of Manhattan — who famously had his Broadhurst Theatre play “Rebecca: The Musical’’ torpedoed by a con man.
Sprecher —

August 15, 2019
Jacquelyn Gray
Crime on line

An officer in South Carolina was reportedly arrested in a sex sting operation that was carried out by his own police department, officials announced this week.

According to NBC News, Derek Vandenham, 34, was immediately fired from the Richland County Sheriff’s Department following his arrest on Tuesday. Vandenham, a deputy who had been with the department since August 2015, is accused of using social media or an online chatroom to solicit minors for sex.

The Post and Courier reported that “Operation Relentless Guardian” was a five-day sting operation that resulted in

September 5, 2019
Yaron Steinbuch
NY Post

A man claiming to be Adolf Hitler’s last living relative has been convicted of pedophilia for kissing a 13-year-old girl, according to a report.

Romano-Luka Hitler, 69, who lives in the town of Görlitz in eastern Germany, claims to be related to the Fuehrer through Hitler’s father, Alois, according to the UK’s Mirror. He has said that Alois had a younger brother, whose grandson was his father.

The Leipzig schoolgirl’s father, who owns a small garage, told the German news outlet Bild that he believed Hitler was interested in

July 30, 2019
Kayla Galloway
KRON 4

SAN JOSE (KRON) — A man was arrested Thursday in San Jose on several sex crime-related charges after allegedly arranging to meet a 12-year-old boy he talked to online.

Police say the suspect, identified as Roman Guillen, was arrested on felony charges of child pornography, meeting a minor to commit a lewd act and sending harmful material to a child.

The 26-year-old man communicated with the victim online regarding topics of sexual nature, police say.

The victim’s mother then contacted police.

Officers then began communicating with the suspect, posing the