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

Alan Robert Johnson, a 24 year old North Fort Myers man, is accused of using his mother’s e-mail to pose as a teenage girl and send pornographic images over the Internet.  He pleaded not guilty to federal charges of possession of child pornography.  FBI agents raided the home of Paul Bardotz in West Seneca, New York and seized Bardotz’s computer.  Investigators found several pornographic images of young girls and an infant on his computer that were sent to him.  The e-mail address was traced to Johnson’s mother.  Bardotz told FBI

Christopher Gazzo, a 33 year old Long Island man who thought he was meeting a 14 year old girl he first encountered over the Internet, was arrested on a pornography charges yesterday as part of the Nassau County district attorney’s Operation Teensaver sting.  Gazzo, of Port Jefferson, was charged with two counts of attempted dissemination of indecent material to minors, a felony that carries a prison term of up to four years.  He allegedly had several online conversations beginning March 7 with a person he believed was a 14 year

Newsday/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher

Richard Himbele, a 31 year old Lindenhurst man, arrived at a Selden parking lot on March 13expecting to meet a 12 year old girl he had been having sexual chats with on the Internet. Threedays earlier, Mitchell Kaplan, a 51 year old man from Middle Village, took the Long Island Railroadfrom Queens to meet a 13 year old girl he planned to take back to his apartment to have sex.Instead, both men were greeted by Suffolk detectives with handcuffs. For about six weeks, both menbelieved they were communicating

Rabbi Israel Kestenbaum, 55, allegedly pursued a 13 year old girl on the Internet.  Manhattan prosecutors revealed creepy details of the rabbi’s pursuit, including the black bag of condoms and lubricants they say he brought to their first date.  We could meet and kiss, he typed in a message to a male undercover cop posing online as Katie.  In another message sent over the course of eight days last month, before he arranged a date at a lower Manhattan Starbucks, he allegedly typed – among fare more graphic suggestions –

New York Post/Kati Cornell Smith

Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that Federal law enforcement authorities have charged89 people, including seven New York State residents, in a nationwide crackdown on an Internet childpornography ring. Among the 89 members of a defunct discussion group on Yahoo! Inc.’s Web sitearrested in the undercover FBI probe over 17 months are Paul Alexander, 39, of Bay Shore, SusanFlynn, 35, and her husband, James Flynn, 36, of West Hempstead, and Shannon Timothy Macauley, 36,an upstate school bus driver from upstate Constable. Two Catholic priests, six other clergymembers,a

Cpl. James R. Davis, a 42 year old decorated police officer, was charged with using the Internet to seek sexual encounters with children.  He was indicted on Thursday on charges of child endangerment, attempted sexual assault and official misconduct.  He has been suspended without pay.  In his job, he also visited schools dressed as McGruff the Crime Dog.  He plans to plead innocent at his arraigned, according to his attorney.  A phone call with a patrol car siren heard in the background was made and e-mails were sent to a