Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

February 21, 2021
Audrey Conklin
Fox News

The Phoenix Police Department, in partnership with other Arizona authorities, on Friday announced 37 arrests in connection to human trafficking and sex crimes.
Undercover police placed ads on websites commonly sought out by suspects seeking illegal sex acts with children as part of an investigation dubbed Operation Broken Hearts.
The probe targeted “sexual predators engaged in child sex crimes and human trafficking,” Phoenix police wrote in a Friday Facebook post.
Suspects “solicited and/or brokered deals for various sex acts and were subsequently arrested,” police said.
Police told Fox News that

February 17, 2021
Erin Vogt
NJ 101.5

Authorities in South Jersey have arrested another fifteen people in a long-spanning crackdown on child pornography and predatory behavior, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina announced Wednesday.
Among those rounded up in the second phase of “Operation Safe Quarantine”:
• A 30-year-old youth pastor accused of blackmailing boys online into recording sexual videos of themselves;
• A 40-year-old man charged with secretly recorded a nude underage girl;
• And a 72 year-old man who had child sexual abuse material, including images of infants and toddlers, according to Coffina.
A 35-year-old suspect had arranged to meet

February 6, 2021
Stabroek News

(Trinidad Guardian) The discovery of human remains at Heights of Aripo just hours after the decomposed body of 23-year-old Andrea Bharatt was found has prompted homicide investigators to widen their investigation to include a series of sex crimes in which women were raped and murdered but their bodies never found.

Bharatt was kidnapped on January 29, after boarding a car at King Street, Arima, on her way home from work. For six days police searched forested areas in east Trinidad, and her body was eventually found off a

February 1, 2021
Randall Ryan
Knewz

Sarah Norton, the Connecticut mother-of-three who lured a fourteen-year-old boy into an ongoing sexually explicit exchange online, and then made efforts to consummate her predation, has been slapped with a 14-year prison sentence, The Morning Call reports.
Hailing from Jewett City, Connecticut, Sarah Norton ventured to Allentown, Pennsylvania, with the intention of sexually abusing the teenage boy.
But in December 2019 she was convicted in a U.S. district court in Allentown of attempted enticement of a minor and traveling to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
Even when she gets out

February 9, 2021
K. Kambo
Democrat Herald

A Junction City man was found guilty on 22 separate charges, including 21 felony sex crimes, in Linn County Circuit Court on Friday.
Michael Ray Long, 36, was found guilty of 10 counts of first-degree sexual abuse, five counts of second-degree encouraging child sexual abuse, three counts of first-degree unlawful sexual penetration, three counts of first-degree sodomy and one count of strangulation.
The jury found him guilty on all charges after approximately an hour of deliberation, said prosecutor Julia Baker. Long is scheduled to be sentenced April 6

February 5, 2021
Danielle Wallace
Fox News

The FBI’s child pornography case against suspect David Lee Huber remains largely under wraps Thursday — two days after he allegedly peered through a doorbell camera and fired an assault-style weapon through the closed door of his apartment in South Florida, killing two FBI agents coming to serve a federal warrant and wounding three others.
Huber, who investigators believe then turned the gun on himself and died by suicide following the standoff, was the subject of a “run of the mill” child pornography case, an unnamed law