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Man From Region Admits Placing Video-Recording Device In High School Locker Room, Other Places Man From Region Admits Placing Video-Recording Device In High School Locker Room, Other Places
Man From Region Admits Placing Video-Recording Device In High School Locker Room, Other Places A Connecticut man could spend decades in federal prison after admitting that he secretly recorded dozens of teens and adults inside bathrooms, including in a high school locker room. Hartford County resident Kyle Fasold, age 52, of Plainville, pleaded guilty to child exploitation offenses Thursday, Sept. 29, in federal court in Hartford. Fasold was arrested in March 2020 after investigators determined he had uploaded images of child pornography to the dark web, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Connecticut. Not long after, agents from Homeland Security Investigations, along with l…

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Man From Region Sentenced For Fentanyl Distribution, Firearm Possession Man From Region Sentenced For Fentanyl Distribution, Firearm Possession
Man From Region Sentenced For Fentanyl Distribution, Firearm Possession A Connecticut man will spend more than two years in prison after pleading guilty to fentanyl distribution and firearm possession charges. Hartford resident Maico Turell, age 49, was sentenced to 30 months, or 2.5 years, behind bars Tuesday, May 24, in federal court in Hartford. Undercover police busted Turell in December 2020 when he sold them “distribution quantities” of heroin and fentanyl on two seperate occasions at his Franklin Avenue home, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Connecticut. A court-authorized search of his home turned up a loaded 9mm semiautomatic firearm, a 9mm ma…

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Man From Region Sentenced For Attempting To Engage in Sex With Minor Man From Region Sentenced For Attempting To Engage in Sex With Minor
Man From Region Sentenced For Attempting To Engage in Sex With Minor A Connecticut man will spend more than a decade in prison after he was caught trying to pay to sexually abuse a child. Hartford County resident Robert Sellers, age 62, of Bristol, was sentenced in federal court in Hartford on Friday, May 20, to 13 years behind bars. It came three months after he pleaded guilty to one count of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor, and one count of distribution of child pornography, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Connecticut. The FBI began targeting Sellers on the social media app Kik in November 2020 after getting tipped off that he was sh…

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