Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

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Michael Ramos, 48, of Fontana, was booked into West Valley detention Center on Monday forinvestigation of felony attempted lewd and lascivious conduct with a child and for an outstandingwarrant, after a group of boys who posed as a 15 year old girl for an Internet prank ended uphelping police arrest him. The five boys had created a fake profile of a girl on MySpace.com, asocial networking Web site, to cheer up a friend who had recently broken up with his girlfriend.Soon, Ramos began sending messages to the girl and their

Newsday/Samuel Bruchey

During a month long sting of online sex crimes, Suffolk detectives said they netted two dozenInternet pedophiles by posing in chatrooms as young boys and girls and inviting men for dates to arented house in central Suffolk. Men from New York City and Long Island, between 20 and 47 yearsold were caught in the sting, including several students, a young actor, a plumber, an Armylieutenant colonel and a West Islip firefighter. They all engaged in sexually explicitconversations online with people they thought were minors and all were charged with

Jim Buckley, a radio traffic reporter aired by WALK 97.5 FM, was arrested and charged yesterday with trafficking child pornography online.  He was charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography and was freed on $350,000 bail.  Buckley was placed under house arrest and his computer use would be monitored until his next court date on February 28.

(New York)

Richard Chip Williams, a 48 year old former NASCAR publicist, is charged with raping a 14 year old girl he met on the Internet when she was 11 and soliciting a minor for sex over the Internet.  The girl who allegedly had a lengthy sexual relationship with Williams told authorities he claimed to have victimized more than 50 children across the country.

(Charlotte, North Carolina)

The Connecticut Supreme Court has ruled that police can charge alleged Internet predators with attempting to sexually assault children, even when the intended victim turns out to be fictitious.  The ruling comes in the case of John Sorabella III, a Stow, Massachusetts, man arrested in an Internet sting in March 2000.  He was charged with attempted second degree sexual assault when he showed up at a shopping plaza in New Britain to meet what he thought would be a 13 year old girl but instead was a New Britain Detective

David Ray Kelly, a 67 year old man from Kennesaw, Georgia, was sentenced today by US District Judge Harold L. Murphy on charges of receiving child pornography in interstate commerce by downloading it from the internet.  Kelly was sentenced to 3 years, 10 months in federal prison to be followed by 3 years of supervised release.  He pleaded guilty to these charges on November 21, 2005.  Kelly moved from Fort Oglethorpe after his conviction and now lives in Kennesaw.

(Rome, Georgia)