Category Archive for : ‘General’

Stephen Hartgen, Times-News publisher, wasn’t home two weeks ago when a reader slipped into his home with a gun and an unspoken warning about the newspaper’s decision to print the names of sex offenders.  His wife was and when she saw the gunman she fled with the couple’s daughter to a neighbor’s home to call police.  The intruder left behind an envelope containing a clipping from The Times-News listing registered sex offenders living in the newspaper’s eight-county circulation area in southern Idaho.  Also inside was a copy of the paper’s

Gerry Grant, a veteran local television newsman is charged with possessing child pornography, a felony punishable by two to ten years in prison.  Grant, 41, was arrested Monday night at a local motel after he bought four sexually explicit photographs of children who appear to be between the ages of 6 and 12.  He was released on $100,000 bond on Tuesday.

Twin 13-year-old brothers were arrested and charged with rape, sex abuse, burglary, robbery and assault involving a 40-year-old woman.  They will be tried as juveniles.  The attack took place in the woman’s Bronx apartment after she returned home with groceries.  The twins who are 5 feet tall and weigh 108 pounds allegedly stole $375 in cash and fled.  While on of the boys beat and raped her his twin held down the woman’s 2 year old son, covering his mouth to keep him from screaming for help.  The victim was

Stephen Simmons, 46, was indicted earlier this year on charges of third degree sodomy, third degree sexual abuse, endangering the welfare of a child and five counts of possessing sexually explicit images of a child.  The case fizzled out Thursday in a Riverhead courtroom when he pleaded guilty to possessing a picture of his then underaged boyfriend committing a sex act.   The child in question, Sam Manzie, now 18, had sodomized and killed an 11 year old boy in his New Jersey hometown.  Simmons and Manzie met in an AOL

Daily Herald/Burt Constable

Douglas E. Day, a 44 year old paroled child molester, says of the concerned neighbors whocheered when police announced he had left their Gurnee subdivision, They’ll hound me wherever Igo, I can move, but then sooner or later, they’ll find out and run me out of town there, too. It’sjust going to start all over again. Day was on probation for molesting three young girls whenevidence of a fourth molestation wound up sending him to prison in 1997. He was labeled anindividual we considered to be very dangerous

Daily Herald/Burt Constable

Douglas E. Day, a 44 year old paroled child molester, says of the concerned neighbors whocheered when police announced he had left their Gurnee subdivision, They’ll hound me wherever Igo, I can move, but then sooner or later, they’ll find out and run me out of town there, too. It’sjust going to start all over again. Day was on probation for molesting three young girls whenevidence of a fourth molestation wound up sending him to prison in 1997. He was labeled anindividual we considered to be very dangerous