Category Archive for : ‘STINGS’

December 10, 2019
News on 6

TULSA, Oklahoma – Two Green Country men entered guilty pleas to child sex crimes in federal court. Their arrests were part of Operation Independence Day, a sting operation targeting child predators.
Carnell Lovette Matthews, a Tulsa resident, pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography. U.S. Attorney Trent Shores said Matthews admitted he used his smart phone to persuade a minor to send him sexually explicit photographs. He also tried to persuade the victim to meet him to have sex.
The 43-year-old man is set to be sentenced March

November 22, 2019
Brie Stimson
Fox News

A two-day human trafficking and prostitution sting operation in the Kansas City, Mo., area last week led to 21 arrests — including a suspect police say held a woman and her child hostage in their home for months, according to federal immigration authorities and a local report.
Jeffrey Higgins, 48, had allegedly refused to leave the victim’s Kansas home since June and forced her into prostitution, Fox 4 in Kansas City reported.
The victim told police Higgins injected her with meth and heroin against her will when she

November 17, 2019
David Aaro
Fox News

A Virginia man who worked as a substitute teacher and teacher’s assistant at a local elementary school in Fairfax County was sentenced to 150 months in prison and 20 years of supervised release on Friday for the attempted coercion and enticement of a minor and distribution of child pornography, according to a release by the Justice Department.
Monis Irfan, 21, pleaded guilty on July 19 after an undercover police sting found that he communicated online with a Fairfax County police detective posing as the father of a

November 4, 2019
Chiara Giordano
Independent

A man has been jailed for raping a teenage girl while other men also abused her in Huddersfield.
Banaris Hussain, 36, told the judge it was a “miscarriage of justice” as he was led from the dock after being sentenced to 10 years behind bars at Leeds Crown Court.
A total of 27 men have now been convicted following West Yorkshire Police’s Operation Tendersea investigation into child sexual exploitation in the town, with prison sentences totalling more than 300 years.
Hussain, of William Street, Huddersfield, was sentenced on Monday after

November 10, 2019
Robert Gearty
Fox News

Two Disney employees and a retired middle school assistant principal have been snared in a Florida sheriff’s child pornography sting.
Their arrests and the arrests of 14 other men were announced Friday by Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd as part of an undercover probe into child pornography conducted by detectives who work on computer crime cases.

Judd said the two arrested Disney employees were Brett Kinney, 40, of Lake Alfred, Fla., and Donald Durr, Jr., 52, of Davenport, Fla. He said the retired assistant principal was William Hage,

October 30, 2019
Mike Gauntner
WFMJ

A Salem man, one of nearly 1,700 people rounded up in a nationwide crackdown on child sex offenders, has been sent to prison.
Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Scott Krichbaum on Tuesday sentenced 54-year-old Timothy Leverknight to spend one year in state prison. Also declared a Tier Two Sex Offender, Leverknight will also be required to register his address with authorities twice a year for 25 years and will be on probation for five years.
Leverknight pleaded guilty in September to charges of attempted unlawful sexual contact with a