Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

Frederick Ungewitter, 43, was arrested by FBI agents and charged him with using the Internet to lure young girls for sex and with possession and distribution of child pornography.  He pleaded not guilty at a hearing and was released on $75,000 bond.  Hillsborough County sheriff’s

detectives arrested Ungewitter in May of 1998 when he drove to Tampa to see a 14 year old girl he met on the Internet.  The girl was actually an undercover detective.  He was charged with using an online service to entice a child and possession

Ruben Ortega Ibarra Jr., 32, was jailed on $1 million bail after his arrest on suspicion of soliciting sex with a fictitious 13 year old girl over the Internet.  He is being held on suspicion of an attempted lewd act with a child under 14 and possession and distribution of child pornography.  A police detective posed as the girl during the undercover operation.  Ibarra is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.

US Customs Agent Don Daufenbach goes undercover by simply sitting at his computer to enter the community of Internet child pornographers.  At least 90 percent of Daufenbach’s time is spent on Internet-related cases he tracks from his downtown Salt Lake Office.  His cases include the first foreign national charged by the American government for commercially distributing child pornography on the Internet.  A 34-year-old London businessman was sentenced to 23 months in federal prison last year for operating pay-per-view child pornography sites on the Internet.  Daufenbach paid to join Raymond McArthur-Jones’

Stuart Friedman, 45, pleaded guilty in November to one count of distributing child pornography.  Friedman served as the cantor of a synagogue in Canada and was deported from Canada after mailing child pornography to an undercover FBI agent in Southern California.  He was

sentenced in Los Angeles Monday to 15 months in federal prison.  In November 1996, he mailed two computer disks containing 13 images of boys having sex to an undercover FBI agent in Long Beach.  According to the Los Angeles Times, he was convicted in 1997 at Nova

Paul Blazevich, 39, was indicted last week in San Diego for possession and transportation of child pornography over the Internet.  The self-employed real estate developer and part time martial arts instructor was indicted on 37 counts of international transportation and possession of child pornography over the Internet by a San Diego federal grand jury.  Special agents of the US Customs Service are intensifying their investigation into Blazevich.  They are asking victims or other individuals with information concerning the case to come forward immediately by calling (619)744-7366.  This is a hotline

John Joseph Cartwright, 52, killed himself at home Tuesday night, two days before his scheduled sentencing for distributing child pornography.  He faced up to 15 years in prison.  He left behind a private and personal letter for his wife, which police would not provide further details.  After receiving a complaint from a woman in James City County who posed as an 11-year-old girl in an Internet chat room, FBI agents raided Cartwright’s home in June.  The chats she had with him continued over two weeks last April and May and