Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

The Web site MySpace.com was at the center of arrests in Connecticut and Arizona this week, one involving the alleged sexual assault of a minor and the other a contract killing.  Bienvenido Garcia, a 19 year old Bridgeport, Connecticut man, has been arrested on a sexual assault charge, accused of raping a 12 year old girl he met on Myspace.com.  He was arrested Wednesday by members of the US Marshals Violent Crime Fugitive Task Force.  The girl said on a number of occasions Garcia had come into her room, pinned

Paul Iulo, a veteran NYPD detective, was nailed in an Internet sting operation for propositioning a 14 year old who was actually an undercover cop.  Iulo, who is assigned to the highly regarded 75th Precinct Detective Squad, was arrested in front of his pregnant wife in their New Jersey home Wednesday.  

(New York)

Roger Carruthers, a 43 year old mechanic residing in Lagrange, Georgia, was arrested Thursday evening, August 10, 2006, on federal charges related to the receipt and distribution of child pornography.  The arrest was conducted by the FBI in conjunction with the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office, along with the Gwinnet County Sheriff’s Office, the Fulton County Police Department and the Lagrange Police Department.

(Atlanta, Georgia)

Pedro Torres, a 36 year old man who cops say is the most persistent pedophile in memory, a super predator so obsessed with stalking teen boys that he did virtually nothing else, has been arrested.  He would surf the Internet day and night, combing chat rooms to find underage victims, then driving to their home states and coercing them into having sex with him.  He logged 862 chats with potential victims and likely hooked up with about a dozen kids in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts and Georgia.  The youngest

Scott Widom, a 44 year old Mineola man, was arrested Sunday night when he tried to meet a person who he thought was a teenage girl, with whom he had been chatting via instant messaging and having sexually explicit online conversations.  The girl was an undercover investigator posing as a teenager.  Widom, a deliveryman for an Albertson deli, was arraigned on two counts of first degree attempted disseminating indecent material to minors, a felony.  He was released on $25,000 bond.

(New York)

Roy Logston, a 68 year old man from Chattanooga, Tennessee, pleaded guilty today in federal district court to traveling across state lines with intent to have sex with a 10 year old child.  He was arrested when he traveled from Tennessee to Georgia with the intention of having illegal sexual contact with the girl, who was really an undercover agent of the FBI.  Logston was indicted in March 2006 on one count of using a computer connected to the internet to persuade, induce and entice a child to engage in