Category Archive for : ‘CONSTRUCTION WORKER’

February 23, 2021
Jimmy Lovrien
Duluth News Tribune

Two of the men charged in last week’s Itasca County human trafficking bust were working on Enbridge’s Line 3 project, fueling concern that construction of the oil pipeline is bringing a higher risk of sex crimes to the area.

Michael Kelly West, 53, of Rolla Missouri, was charged with one count of carrying a pistol without a permit and one count of solicitation to engage in prostitution.

Matthew Ty Hall, 33, of Mount Pleasant, Texas, was charged with one count of solicitation of a person believed

Alberto Maldonado, 39, was arrested for molesting a 12 year old boy outside the victim’s Arlington home.  Maldonado approached the boy in the front yard of his Lockman Avenue home at around 10 p.m. Sunday.  He is charged with sexual abuse and child endangerment.

(Staten Island, New York)

Nick Sorrentino, a 61 year old convicted sex offender, was arrested for fatally bludgeoning a former gay lover in a Murray Hill apartment.  The July 10 arrested came after cops matched saliva left on a beverage can to Sorrentino’s DNA profile.  He is being held without bail on a murder charge.  He is accused of repeatedly smashing Jose Raul Prieto, 70, in the head with a fire extinguisher and then strangling him in his apartment on East 35th Street.  According to the New Jersey State Police sex offender Web site,

Andre Durham, a 20 year old Woodside man, was arrested on child-endangerment and assault charges.  He allegedly kissed an bit a 3 year old girl’s neck while she was sleeping in November.  When her mother asked about the marks on her neck, the girl pointed to Durham – a family acquaintance.  He was arrested and could face up to a year in jail if convicted.

(Queens, New York)

New York Post/Tatiana Delgiannakis

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Richard Gagliardotto, a 40 year old Flushing man, was arrested for allegedly raping a 14 yearrnold girl in his home. Gagliardotto met the girl on an adult phone party line in March. They bothrnlied about their ages at first and after several phone conversations, the suspect asked to meet therngirl. She refused and admitted to being a teenager, yet he repeatedly asked that she meet him atrnhis house. The girl then went to his 151st Street home and he sexually abused her.

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(Queens, New York)

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Khalil Ess, a 15 year old boy who was accused, along with another teen, of raping and kidnapping a 12 year old girl on April 10, was arrested last week but authorities have now dropped the charges against him because prosecutors found no evidence he had raped her.  The investigation is continuing.  The girl claimed she was abducted from a bus stop and sexually assaulted.

(Manhattan, New York)