Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

The Reverend John Castaldo, a 45 year old Connecticut priest who was the chaplain at a Catholic high school, admitted in court he was trying to send indecent material to a 14 year old boy when he was caught in an Internet sex sting.  Castaldo has been removed as chaplain.  He is accused of engaging in sexually explicit online conversations during April and May of 2001.  He claimed online that he was a gym teacher, gave out his phone number, and described the explicit sexual activity he wanted to engage

Matthew Brand, a 37 year old New Jersey man, has been charged with soliciting sex from a minor after asking an FBI agent posing as a 13 year old girl on the Internet if she wanted to be his Valentine.  Brand was arrested at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on February 12, 2004, where he had arranged a meeting with the girl.  An FBI complaint accused him of using the screen name tempoteech during Internet chats with the agent.  Brand, of Jackson, identified himself to the undercover as a voice

Jeffrey Skya, a 47 year old New York City correction officer from Bethpage, was arrested Monday afternoon after he showed up for a date with someone he believed was a 14 year old boy.  Instead, he met with Nassau County district attorney investigators, who swarmed around him, took him into custody and charged him with four counts of first degree attempted disseminating indecent material to minors.  An investigator with their task force, known as Operation Teensaver, posed as a 14 year old boy in a chat room.  Skya first contacted

Jeffrey Lackman, a 49 year old Pennsylvania man, was arrested December 1 in Levittown after arranging to meet who he thought was a 14 year old boy there for sex.  Lackman, of 206 Kleyona Avenue, Phoenixville, thought he was communicating with a 14 year old boy when he was actually talking to Det. John McGee, of Nassau’s Crimes Against Property squad, who had been monitoring various Web sites.  Lackman is charged with attempted first degree dissemination of indecent material to a minor and third degree attempted engagement in a criminal

Douglas Grabow, a 37 year old married Long Island man with the computer screen name of Long Island Naked Guy, was arrested for sending nude pictures of himself to someone he thought was a 13 year old girl.  Grabow, a computer programmer from Babylon, also masturbated live via Web cam several times and arranged to meet the girl who was really a male detective.  He was arraigned and is being held on $10,000 bail.  

(New York)

Frank Mudry, a 39 year old police commissioner of Little Ferry, New Jersey, was arrested yesterday for allegedly e-mailing nude photos to two undercover detectives he believed to be 14 year old girls.  Charges include luring and enticing a minor and attempted sexual assault.  He was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.

(New Jersey)