Category Archive for : ‘SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS APPREHENDED’

July 23, 2020
Chris Harris
People

After accepting a plea deal from prosecutors, a Montana man who was charged with 64 individual counts, including rape and sexual abuse of children, may never spend any time behind bars after receiving a 1-year deferred prison sentence on Monday.

William Edward Miller Jr., according to reports, received the sentence from Judge Elizabeth Best.

Miller will be on unsupervised probation for the next year. If, after the year, the 51-year-old has committed no other crimes, the entire matter will be expunged from his record.

The Great Falls Tribune reports Miller

July 28, 2020
WBRZ

BATON ROUGE – Louisiana State University Police arrested a 22-year-old woman for allegedly raping a man who suffers from traumatic brain injury.

According to an official police document, Alyssa Jade Hooks drove the victim to an area near New Orleans and then to LSU’s campus in Baton Rouge on March 25, 2019 and assaulted him twice during the drive.

In the document, police say, ‘It should be noted the victim… has a medically documented Traumatic Brain Injury that makes it difficult for him to act and/or make decisions in stressful

August 13, 2020
Danielle Wallace
Fox News

Three soldiers were arrested last weekend in a child prostitution sting conducted in the Texas town adjacent to the Fort Hood Army post, after they showed up to a location to meet underage girls for sex, police said.

Spc. Anthony Xavier Antwon, 25, and Pfc. Timmy Jones Jr., 30, each face a felony charge of prostitution under the age of 18, the Killeen Police Department said.

Staff Sgt. Pierre Jean, 32, received a Class A misdemeanor charge for prostitution.

Antwon and Jones are stationed at Fort Hood. They are

August 18, 2020
Jeremy Schneider
13 ABC

FINDLAY, Ohio (WTVG) – The pastor of a Catholic church in Findlay was arrested and is being federally charged with numerous crimes related to sexual conduct with minors.

Michael Zacharias, 53, is charged with coercion and enticement, sex trafficking of a minor, and sex trafficking of an adult by force, fraud, or coercion. Zacharias is the pastor of St. Michael the Archangel in Findlay.

Investigators are aware Zacharias has engaged in sexual conduct with minors since the late 1990s.

Zacharias, who was ordained in 2002, has been placed on

August 13, 2020
Braylee McCoy
KXII

SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) – Law enforcement officials in Grayson County say a Denison pastor arrested for child pornography is being investigated for additional child sex crimes.
David Pettigrew, the pastor at Denison Church of the Nazarene and a substitute teacher at Sherman ISD, was arrested last week by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (HSI) for the transportation of child pornography.
District Attorney Brett Smith says during the course of the investigation by HSI and the Grayson County Sheriff’s Office, they now have credible information Pettigrew may have acted

August 16, 2020
Blake Keller, Markie Heideman
WNEM

“It’s a sickness,” said Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson.
Swanson told TV5 new information in their hunt for suspected child traffickers.
Seventeen people have been arrested since sting operations started in March.
“National stats confirm that a pedophile or predator taken off the street can save the life of 25 future victims,” said Swanson.
Those arrested all reside over Mid-Michigan.
Swanson says offenders have been found in Flint, Burton, Grand Blanc, Holly and Goodrich among other places. “It’s pedophilia,” said Swanson. “It’s a sexual deviancy that leads to vulnerable people