Category Archive for : ‘INTERNET OFFENDER CASES’

Assistant U.S. Attorney James Miskiewicz said Scott Ansaldi, 26, of 28 Garden Place, Merrick, and Rodney Dean Gates, 31, of Norcross, Ga., had illegally sold the date-rape drug GHB and its precursor chemical GBL over an Internet site based in Long Island City called invigorating.com.  Miskiewicz said they sold the chemicals under the name Verve as an aphrodisiac for $99.99 for a 32-ounce bottle between mid-1999 and August 2000.  Attorneys for the two replied at the opening of their trial in First District Court in Central Islip that their clients

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a federal pornography law that makes it a crime to have computer-generated pictures that look like real children engaged in sexual acts, ruling the law violates free-speech rights.

(Washington)

Bradley Kurtzberg, 33, a divorce attorney from Melville, was arrested at a mall in Paramus, New Jersey where he had allegedly arranged to meet 15 year old April for a sexual encounter.  April was not a 15 year old, she was a member of an FBI task force whose duties include trolling cyberspace for sexual predators.  He told April that he would be gentle and would bring protection for her first time.  He pleaded guilty last year to one count of transporting child pornography and has been sentenced to 22

Milagro Torres-Gotay, a distraught Queens mom, said she is baffled over why city cops refused to track down a 24 year old woman she claims used the Internet to lure her 15 year old son to New Jersey for sex.  The mom went to the 102nd Precinct station house in Richmond Hill on Monday to complain that a woman using the Internet as Ditra had recruited her son for trysts in her Paterson, NJ home after sending him e-mails and explicit photos.  Although she went to cops with Ditra’s unlisted

Times Herald-Record/Paul Brooks

Donald E. Wilhelm, a 45 year old umpire and coach in the Ellenville Little League for 20 years,has been charged with receiving child pornography over the Internet. He downloaded computer imagesof minors in sexually explicit conduct onto his home computer and computer disks. The images werecollected from various Internet sites between August 1999 and January 4, 2002. He was arraigned andreleased on $10,000 bond.

Scott Tyree, a 38 year old man from Virginia, abducted a 13 year old Pittsburgh girl he met on the Internet and kept her chained to a bed.  He was held without bail and faces up to 15 years in prison.  This has prompted cops to warn parents to closely monitor the Internet activities of their children.

(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)