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CT Resident Indicted For Alleged Child Exploitation Offenses
A Connecticut man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for receiving child pornography and the distribution of child pornography.
New Haven County resident Kevin Curley, age 40, of Naugatuck, appeared on Tuesday, Dec. 21, in court and pleaded not guilty to the charges, said Leonard C Boyle, Acting US Attorney for the District of Connecticut.
In 2020, officials began investigating Curley for his involvement in an online community of individuals who sent and received child pornography images and videos via a hidden service website, court documents show.
In August 2020, investigators con…
CT Woman Admits Lying To Grand Jury About Kidnapping, Triple Homicide
A 26-year-old Connecticut woman has admitted to making false statements before a federal grand jury in connection with an investigation into the kidnapping and murder of two individuals, and the related murder of a third individual, in November 2015, authorities announced. According to court documents and statements made in Bridgeport Court,
On Nov. 16, 2015, Laquasia Samms, also known as “Quasia,” 26, of New Haven, was present when an illegal firearm transaction was occurring in her apartment on Shelton Avenue in New Haven. Damian Connor and Tamar Lawrence were also pr…
Two Connecticut Men Charged With Sex Trafficking A Minor
Two East Hartford men have been indicted by a federal grand jury in New Haven on charges related to the sex trafficking of a minor.
On Thursday, Aug. 20, Joel “Joey Guapo” Lindsay, 22, and Joseph Pina, 23, both of East Hartford were arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor. Linsay is also charged with sex trafficking of a minor, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Connecticut.
Lindsay and Pina are accused of recruiting, enticing, and transporting a minor to engage in commercial sex acts, the Attorney’s Office said.
Linsday and Pina are facing life in p…
Felon From Bridgeport On Supervised Release Had Heroin, Handgun, Police Say
A convicted felon from Fairfield County is facing new weapons and drug charges after he was busted with an illegal semi-automatic pistol and heroin while on supervised release from federal prison.
A federal grand jury in Bridgeport has returned a six-count indictment charging Lynwood Cogdell, 32, of Bridgeport, with firearms and narcotics offenses,” U.S. Attorney John Durham announced. Cogdell has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
On May 1, 2015, Cogdell pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of possessing a firearm by a convicted felon. On March 15, 2016, he was sentenced to 36 mont…
