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

Scott M. Murtagh trolls the Internet for young boys interested in sex but he unknowingly solicited the same undercover policeman twice in ten months.  The great probability that he would continue to prey on the young without treatment and incarceration concerned US District Judge Alvin W. Thompson.  The plea for leniency was rejected and Murtagh was sentence to 52 months in prison.  Murtagh, not realizing he was conversing with a 41-year-old detective posing as a boy, was arrested last February at Union Station in Hartford, where he expected to pick

Edward Flagge, Jr., 53, was apprehended by the United States Marshals early last week as the result of an investigation conducted by the FBI, three Florida sheriff’s offices and an Illinois police department.  Within hours of being released from jail on bond, Flagge, a Winter Park man,

was charged with trying to arrange sexual liaisons over the Internet with young girls.  He used his home PC to set up the encounter with a juvenile.  He faces two counts of attempting to lure children over the Internet for sexual acts, five

The Sacramento Bee

John M. Ballard, 36, of Dayton, Nevada was arrested Wednesday afternoon in a midtown motel onsex charges. He had made arrangement to meet an undercover police detective who was posing on theInternet as a pedophile, at the motel where the detective was to bring a juvenile female. Ballardwas booked on three counts of attempted child molestation and attempted production of childpornography and is being held in the Sacramento County jail in lieu of $600,000 bail. He isscheduled to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. today.

(California)

Michael Paul Slattery, 45, has been accused of trying to use the Internet to arrange a sexual encounter with a person he believed to be a 15 year old girl who was actually law enforcement officers.  According to the Associated Press, he was initially arrested by Southaven police officers and the FBI on November 12th and was indicted on the charge Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Oxford and rearrested Thursday.  He is free on $10,000 bond.  The use of the Internet to arrange sexual activity with a minor

David Vaksdale, 30, was indicted late Wednesday by a Will County grand jury on nine counts of child pornography.  Federal and Will County authorities allege he is part of an international child pornography ring that operates on the Internet.  If Vaksdal is convicted, he faces 4 to 15

years in prison.  Three of the charges are that Vaksdal allegedly videotaped two young girls depicted in poses involving lewd exhibition of naked body parts.  The other charges are that Vaksdal allegedly possessed with the intent to disseminate photos or other visual

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

James Edward Henkle, II, 46, has been arrested and charged with various offenses relating toengaging in sexual activities with a minor child. He chatted online with a 13-year-old girl whoclaimed to be a virgin and attracted to older men with not-so-innocent interests. Turns out thegirl really is a 22-year-old woman who works for the investigative news section of Fox Television.Her job has been to pose as a 13-year-old girl in Internet chat rooms to see which adult men takethe bait. Henle was arrested at a Dallas/Fort Worth