Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

Joshua Witkowski, a 23 year old Ohio man, was arrested by Nassau police Thursday morning shortly after they discovered he had been having an online relationship with a Syosset girl and had driven from Ohio to meet with her.  Witkowski, who works for an insurance company in Ohio, sent sexually explicit e-mails to the 14 year old girl.  Police arrested him after he showed up at her house Thursday at about 6:30 a.m.  He was charged with a felony count of disseminating indecent material to minors.  He was arraigned Friday

John J. Nelson, a 43 year old upstate man, was arrested Wednesday night in East Hampton as part of a police sting to catch online predators.  He began communicating in an Internet chat room with an undercover East Hampton officer several days ago, believing her to be a 14 year old girl.  He arranged to meet her in East Hampton, where he planned to pick her up and take her back to his hotel room in Ronkonkoma to engage in sexual acts.  Nelson is charged with first degree attempted dissemination

Thomas Geed, a 28 year old Queens man, met a 13 year old Manhattan girl on the Internet, arranged a date at a Yankees game and then a rendezvous at a Long Island hotel, where he sexually abused her.  Geed, of 196 Place, communicated with the teen in an Internet chat room for weeks before agreeing to meet her a a ball game and then go to a hotel.  The girl went voluntarily and actually suggested the Floral Park Hotel.  She was reported missing by her family and the NYPD

David Chappel, a 42 year old emergency medical technician from Connecticut, was arrested on Long Island for arranging to have sex with what he thought was a 14 year old boy he met on the Internet.  On Thursday evening, Chappel arrived for the Hicksville rendezvous with a laptop computer and a digital video camera but his date turned out to be a detective who arrested him.  He has been charged with possession of child pornography on his computer, promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child and two counts of

Internet sex stings have snared two New York City teachers.  Daniel Gettens, 53, was arrested Monday evening at Sacred Heart of Jesus grammar school in Bayside as he waited for what he thought was a 14 year old girl he met in an AOL chat room.  He was awaiting arraignment last night for attempted dissemination of indecent material to minors, attempted criminal performance of a sexual act, and attempted endangering the welfare of a child.  He was immediately fired, as per diocesan policy.

Three days before Gettens was arrested, cops

Joseph Rizzo, a 21 year old construction worker from Inwood, was arrested by Nassau police and charged with third-degree rape for allegedly forcing a 15 year old girl he had met over the Internet to have sex with him in his car. Rizzo has previously been arrested in Pennsylvania for allegedly sending child pornography over the Internet.

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