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Dog Bite Is Demise For Sex Offender From Rockville On The Run, Cops Say Dog Bite Is Demise For Sex Offender From Rockville On The Run, Cops Say
Dog Bite Is Demise For Sex Offender From Rockville On The Run, Cops Say A Maryland man wanted for sex crimes was arrested in Pennsylvania, all because of his dog, police said. Pennsylvania State Police troopers responded to a call of a "dog bite victim" on Tuesday, April 30 along a stretch of East King Street in Abbotstown, they said in a release. There, they found Jeffrey Garcia, 31, of Rockville, MD, the dog's owner, police said. It wouldn't take long for troopers to discover that Garcia was wanted on two warrants for sex assault out of Maryland, PSP said. Garcia was arrested without incident and taken to the Adams County Prison for his arraignment. Th…

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by Zak Failla
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Man Busted With 1,000+ Child Porn Images On iPad In Maryland Gets 10 Years In Prison Man Busted With 1,000+ Child Porn Images On iPad In Maryland Gets 10 Years In Prison
Man Busted With 1,000+ Child Porn Images On iPad In Maryland Gets 10 Years In Prison An Annapolis man will spend time behind bars - and the rest of his life on the Maryland Sex Offender Registry - after being busted with an iPad loaded with child porn, the Anne Arundel County State's Attorney's Office announced. Keith Lionel Brown, 65, pleaded guilty this week to 10 counts of possession of child pornography in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court after he was found with more than 1,000 files of child porn on his device. Detectives from the Anne Arundel County Police Department were tipped off by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) for images con…

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by Zak Failla
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DC Police Officer Convicted Of Raping 9-Year-Old Girl For Years DC Police Officer Convicted Of Raping 9-Year-Old Girl For Years
DC Police Officer Convicted Of Raping 9-Year-Old Girl For Years A 29-year-old former DC Metro police officer was convicted of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl for years. A jury Washington DC jury found Charles Johnson guilty of several counts of at least five different sex abuse charges, U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves said. Johnson forced the girl to perform sex acts on him multiple times between November 2019 and September 2021, according to evidence and testimony presented at trial. Johnson, who was working as a DC police officer at the time, was living in the home with the victim and took advantage of her on multiple occasions when h…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Maryland Man Traveled To New York For 'Relationship' With 13-Year-Old Pennsylvania Girl: DA Maryland Man Traveled To New York For 'Relationship' With 13-Year-Old Pennsylvania Girl: DA
Maryland Man Traveled To New York For 'Relationship' With 13-Year-Old Pennsylvania Girl: DA A judge sentenced a man after confessing to committing sex crimes with a minor “as intentional, premeditated, and planned as you can get," Assistant Lancaster County District Attorney Fritz Haverstick says.  Mirza Ahmed, a 30-year-old from Catonsville, Maryland, began an "online relationship" turn real-life sexual relationship with a 13-year-old East Lampeter Township girl in 2020, the DA's office announced in a release on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023.  Ahmed traveled to New York and then to Columbia, PA to pick up the girl and take her to a room at the Spruce Lane Lodge and Co…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Man Wanted For Continually Sexually Abusing a Child Picked Up By Border Patrol At Dulles In DC Man Wanted For Continually Sexually Abusing a Child Picked Up By Border Patrol At Dulles In DC
Man Wanted For Continually Sexually Abusing a Child Picked Up By Border Patrol At Dulles In DC A wanted Texas man got an unwelcome home present when he was apprehended by US Customers and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Washington Dulles International Airport in DC after landing on a flight from Austria, authorities announced. San Antonio resident Florentin Stefan Dita, 36, who is wanted on felony sex crimes in his native Texas, was arrested on Wednesday, Aug. 31, according to a spokesperson for CBP following his arrival from his flight. Dita is wanted by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office in San Antonio for felony continuous sex abuse of a child, officials said. Officers verifi…

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by Zak Failla
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Six Men Busted For Soliciting Minors During Online Sting Operation In Region: Police Six Men Busted For Soliciting Minors During Online Sting Operation In Region: Police
Six Men Busted For Soliciting Minors During Online Sting Operation In Region: Police On Tuesday, August 9, Fairfax police announced that six men were arrested for their attempt to solicit inappropriate behavior from minors, who were really police officers, on the internet, police said.  The six men would initiate explicit conversations or ask for sexual behavior from the police officers who were pretending to be juveniles, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. The men, who ranged in age between 26 to 43 years old, were charged with a combined 21 felonies and taken into custody, authorities reported. Police provided the following information about eac…

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by AJ Goldbloom
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Man Who Showed Up For Sex With 'Girl,' 13, At NJ Motel Sent To Federal Prison Man Who Showed Up For Sex With 'Girl,' 13, At NJ Motel Sent To Federal Prison
Man Who Showed Up For Sex With 'Girl,' 13, At NJ Motel Sent To Federal Prison A Bronx man was sentenced to two years in federal prison for arranging what he thought would be sex with a 13-year-old girl at a New Jersey motel. Eduardo Silva, 44, must serve the entire term because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. U.S. District Judge Renée Marie Bumb also sentenced him to lifetime supervised release during a hearing in federal court in Camden on Thursday, April 28. Silva used a social media app to ask the “minor” whether she was “into older guys,” U.S Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. He then “sent a series of explicit online communications and text mess…

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by Jerry DeMarco