Category Archive for : ‘SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS ON THE RUN’

September 25, 2019
Austin L. Miller
Ocala

Tony Cruz, 52, was convicted of 14 counts of sexual abuse against four children.

A fugitive taken into custody earlier this year in Marion County has been found guilty in Pennsylvania of sexually abusing children.

Tony Cruz was convicted of 14 counts of sexual abuse against four children, who are now adults, according to a release from the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office. The Pennsylvania prosecutors said the victims testified against Cruz.

The verdict came on Sept. 11. The release notes jurors took 90 minutes to decide Cruz’s fate.

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September 24, 2019
Travis Fedschun
Fox News

An open house in Southern California turned into a fight for her life for a real estate agent, who was violently attacked and groped in an assault that was captured on video.

“I could have been dead yesterday,” the 51-year-old woman told FOX11 of the Sunday incident in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Encino.

The woman, who asked that her name be withheld, said the man who attacked her had come to her open house the previous week and was acting very strangely and inappropriately.

“I said, ‘What are you doing here,’ and he said, ‘I have a buyer for you,”she told FOX11. “At

September 28, 2019
Post Star

FORT EDWARD — A Level 3 sex offender who ducked police for months when he was accused of sex abuse and failing to register his address has been sentenced to up to 11 years in prison after his guilty plea to two felonies.

James B. Gatchell, 43, pleaded guilty to two counts of failure to register as a sex offender in Washington County Court as part of a plea deal. A felony charge of first-degree sexual abuse for alleged abuse of a child was still pending.

Gatchell was sentenced

October 3, 2019
Bradford Betz
Fox News

A fugitive who was on America’s Most Wanted list for more than 10 years – and had escaped custody twice – over kidnapping and rape allegations involving a Detroit girl was caught in Mexico this week, authorities said Thursday.

Corey Deshawn Gaston, 41, had eluded authorities for over a decade as a manhunt crisscrossed from Michigan to San Diego to Alabama, the Detroit Free Press reported. He is accused of being the stranger who on June 27, 2007, kidnapped a 10-year-old girl from her home in Detroit and raped her in a

June 24, 2019
Chris Harris
People

Brother Julius Schacknow, as his followers knew him, was a serial sexual abuser with delusions of grandeur who was hellbent on ending the world.

His religious sect, which he called The Work, operated with impunity for years under his strict control.

An elfin-looking man with a scraggly beard and a penchant for robes, Schacknow declared himself an oracle of God, sent to save mankind by eradicating all evil from the Earth. Soon, Schacknow was telling his followers he was Jesus Christ reincarnate, and that God had commanded him to judge the

September 13, 2019
Mary Hudetz
MSN

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A former Roman Catholic priest is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in Santa Fe, where a jury found him guilty this year of sexually abusing an altar boy in the early 1990s before fleeing the country.
Federal prosecutors are requesting a sentence of more than 30 years in prison for 81-year-old Arthur Perrault, once a pastor at an Albuquerque parish and a chaplain at Kirtland Air Force Base.
Perrault — who pleaded not guilty to charges after he was returned to the United States from