Category Archive for : ‘SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS APPREHENDED’

December 10, 2019
Danielle Radin
Fox 5 San Diego

San Diego — U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested two convicted sex offenders who had entered the United States illegally during two separate incidents. Both men have felony convictions for sex crimes with a minor.
The first event occurred on Thursday around 6:30 pm, when agents encountered five people approximately seven miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. All five were Mexican nationals illegally present in the U.S., Border Patrol said. Agents arrested the group and transported them to a nearby Border Patrol station for

December 20, 2019
Donna Thornton
Gadsden Times

A once prominent Alabama youth evangelist on Friday received the maximum sentences after pleading guilty in Etowah County to 28 sex offenses committed against boys, ages 12 to 16, whom he encountered through his ministry.
Acton Bowen’s consecutive sentences total 1,008 years, and maximum monetary fines of $840,000 were imposed.
Bowen pleaded guilty to all charges against him — multiple counts of second-degree sodomy, enticing a child for sex, traveling to meet a child for sex, facilitating travel of a child for sex and second-degree sexual abuse.
Bowen was

December 16, 2019
Fox 5 San Diego
TIPTON COUNTY, Ind. (WXIN) — Officers arrested a convicted sex offender at an Indiana middle school Monday.
Police said around 12:40 p.m., the sheriff’s office got a call from a school resource officer at Tipton County Middle School reporting a possible sex offender on school property.
According to police, 26-year-old Todd Allen Nicholas, of Burnettsville, was part of a work crew doing maintenance on school grounds.
Following protocol, school officials scanned the ID Nicholas gave them and the school’s online “Raptor” system alerted office staff that Nicholas was

December 17, 2019
Adam Schrader
NY POST

An emergency services worker in Pennsylvania was busted for buying worn socks and pictures of bare feet from minors, it was revealed Tuesday.
Christopher Minnier, 37, was charged with three counts of corruption of minors for allegedly sending sexually charged messages to two minors on social media, according to a criminal complaint that was filed Friday.
After sending the messages, he then asked the boys to send pictures of their feet “for sexual gratification,” Manheim Township Police said in a press release.
He later met both of the boys

December 29, 2019
Page Six

SALT LAKE CITY — A former Disney Channel actor charged with trying to have sex with a 13-year-old boy in Salt Lake City contends he can’t get a fair trial because the judge handling his case is biased against gay people.
An attorney for actor Stoney Westmoreland said in court documents filed last month that U.S. District Judge Howard Nielson Jr. is incapable of being impartial because he represented proponents of a gay marriage ban in California when he was a private attorney, the Deseret News reports. Nielson

December 19, 2019
Logan Rude
Channel 3000

MADISON, Wis. – A former Madison police officer was arrested on suspicion of repeated sexual assault of a child, child enticement and misconduct in public office, according to a news release.
Law enforcement officials in Florida took 56-year-old Morris A. Reid into custody Wednesday after a warrant was filed, the release said. Police said they had been investigating Reid since July, when one Madison woman contacted the Madison Police Department to report a series of crimes involving Reid that began in 2009 when he was still a