Newsday/Kevin Deutsch
9/21/13
Jack Roach, a 19 year old Melville teen, is accused of distributing child pornographythrough his email account. He is charged with two counts of promoting the sexual performanceof a child.
(New York)
Newsday/Sid Cassese 9/13/13 Nassau County has won a reversal of a state court ruling and can continue to ban convictedsex offenders from living near schools. Michael Diack, 36, a Level 1 registered sex offender, was convicted in 2001 of possessingchild pornography and served a 22 month sentence. He was arrested in 2011 and charged withliving about 500 feet from the Lawrence-Woodmere Hebrew Academy in Woodmere, but challenged thecounty law and won. He argued that state law, which did not include those not undersupervision, superseded the sterner county law. The appellate
Newsday/Paul Larocco 5/19/13 Troy Wallace and Carlos Perez, both registered sex offenders, are challenging a new SuffolkCounty law that intensifies monitoring of sex offenders by teaming police with a private advocacygroup. They recently filed a complaint in US District Court in Central Islip against CountyExecutive Steve Bellone, police Chief of Department James Burke and Laura Ahearn, who heads Parentsfor Megan’s Law, the nonprofit that will receive $2.3 million over the next three years underSuffolk’s new law. Wallace and Perez allege that the Community Protection Act, whichwas passed unanimously by the
The Boston Globe/Evan Allen 3/28/13 Gary Alan Irving, a 52 year old convicted rapist from Rockland who fled Massachusetts in1979 and has spent the last 34 years on the Massachusetts State Police Most Wanted list, wascaptured last night in Gorham, Maine, where he had started a new life under a fake name with awife, two children and a granddaughter. Irving, who raped three young women in the summer of1978, in his South Street home, will be arraigned as a fugitive from justice. He had beenliving as Gregg Irving, and had
Philly.com/Joseph A. Slobodzian 6/19/12 Richard DeCoatsworth, a 27 year old former Philadelphia police officer once hailed as a heroand given a seat next to the first lady at a speech by President Obama, has been arrested andcharged with rape and other crimes. DeCoatsworth allegedly left a party with two females andtook them to another location where they allege that he produced a handgun and forced the twofemales to engage in the used of narcotics and sexual acts. The District Attorney’s Officesaid Tuesday an indicting grand jury has charged Richard DeCoatsworth
LosAlamitos-SealBeachPatch/Paige Austin & John Crandall
4/10/13
Rossmoor schools went into high alert Wednesday after a man tried to kidnap two childrenduring recess. Officials believe the man is the same person wanted for questioning in asimilar incident in March. A man offered candy to a 7 year old girl and threatened to abductan 8 year old boy at Lee Elementary. The suspect was described as a 50 year old man withshort hair.
(Orange County, California)