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Maryland Man Targeting Teen Girl Online Arrested For Sexual Solicitation Of Minor: State Police Maryland Man Targeting Teen Girl Online Arrested For Sexual Solicitation Of Minor: State Police
Maryland Man Targeting Teen Girl Online Arrested For Sexual Solicitation Of Minor: State Police A Waldorf man who allegedly preyed on minors online for months was busted by an undercover state police investigator and is behind bars in Anne Arundel County. Rafee Al-Mansur, 33, is facing charges after targeting a purported 13-year-old girl in an online chat over the course of several weeks, according to Maryland State Police investigators. In April, members of the Maryland Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force launched a probe into the sexual solicitation of a minor over the Internet.  The investigation led to Al-Mansur being identified as a suspect, who believed he was…

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by Zak Failla
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Shamer Sentenced For Sharing, Collecting Child Porn In MD Shamer Sentenced For Sharing, Collecting Child Porn In MD
Shamer Sentenced For Sharing, Collecting Child Porn In MD Officials say that a 21-year-old Pasadena man with peculiar sexual proclivities will spend years behind bars for collecting and discussing child porn depicting toddlers getting sexually abused. Raymond Martin Shamer III was sentenced to 50 months in prison, followed by 45 years of supervised release for the possession and distribution of child pornography over the course of several months while he was still a teenager. Shamer admitted that between July 2019 and late June 2020, he took to the Internet to talk about, distribute, and collect child porn, some of which showed adults sexually abu…

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by Zak Failla
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Mother Who Documented Sexual Abuse Of Infant In MD Gets 80 Years: Feds Mother Who Documented Sexual Abuse Of Infant In MD Gets 80 Years: Feds
Mother Who Documented Sexual Abuse Of Infant In MD Gets 80 Years: Feds A Cecil County child abuser will spend decades in federal prison for her role in a conspiracy to sexually assault an infant over the course of nearly two years. The creepy case of Summer Nichole McCroskey, 25, has come to a close after she was sentenced to 80 years in prison on Thursday, May 18, for her participation in a chilling conspiracy to document the molestation of her child with another man, authorities announced. Prosecutors say that McCroskey and Elkton resident Lawrence Aquilla Colby IV began abusing the girl when she was 4 months old, and it continued through at least October 2…

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by Zak Failla
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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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Two Men Busted With Child Porn In Two Days In Prince George's County: Maryland State Police Two Men Busted With Child Porn In Two Days In Prince George's County: Maryland State Police
Two Men Busted With Child Porn In Two Days In Prince George's County: Maryland State Police Another grown man in Prince George’s County is facing charges for possessing and distributing child porn in Maryland, state police announced. Joshua Ramsey, 25, of Bowie, has been charged with two counts of possession with the intent to distribute child pornography and three counts of possession of child pornography following an investigation by the Maryland State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. The arrest was announced on Thursday, Oct. 27. Beginning in July, the Maryland State Police Computer Crimes Unit launched an investigation into the distribution and possession o…

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by Zak Failla
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Maryland Sex Offender Out On Probation Cops To Producing, Distributing Child Porn: DOJ Maryland Sex Offender Out On Probation Cops To Producing, Distributing Child Porn: DOJ
Maryland Sex Offender Out On Probation Cops To Producing, Distributing Child Porn: DOJ A registered sex offender in Maryland will spend decades in prison after admitting to producing and distributing child pornography, federal prosecutors announced. Westminster resident Justin Michael Peterson, 27, pleaded guilty this week after being busted with child porn while out on probation for a previous conviction in 2016 in Carroll County. In February 2020, an investigation was launched into an individual using messaging apps and an email account to distribute child pornography over the Internet, leading police to identify Peterson as a suspect, prosecutors said. On Feb. 27, 2020, a…

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by Zak Failla
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Six Men Busted For Soliciting Minors During Online Sting Operation: Fairfax County Police Six Men Busted For Soliciting Minors During Online Sting Operation: Fairfax County Police
Six Men Busted For Soliciting Minors During Online Sting Operation: Fairfax County 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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Maryland Man Charged With Distributing, Possessing Child Porn: State Police Maryland Man Charged With Distributing, Possessing Child Porn: State Police
Maryland Man Charged With Distributing, Possessing Child Porn: State Police A Harford County man has been arrested following a Maryland State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force investigation into reported distribution and possession of child pornography, authorities announced. Forest Hill resident Jon Erich Smith, 37, is being held without bail at the Harford County Detention Center after being charged by state police. Specifically, Smith was charged with seven counts of distribution of child pornography and five counts of possession with intent to distribute child pornography. Beginning earlier this month, the Maryland State Police Computer Crime…

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by Zak Failla
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Maryland State Police Arrest Man On Child Pornography Charges Maryland State Police Arrest Man On Child Pornography Charges
Maryland State Police Arrest Man On Child Pornography Charges A multi-state investigation led to the arrest of a man who was busted on multiple counts of child pornography in Maryland, state police announced. Baltimore resident Neal Patrick Garith, 39, was arrested on Friday, June 3, following a long-ranging investigation by law enforcement officials which identified him as a suspect in both Maryland and Oklahoma. Maryland State Police investigators said that Garith has been charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography, and he is facing similar charges in Oklahoma. This month, the Maryland State Police Computer Crimes Unit received a tip…

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by Zak Failla
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CHILD PORN: Cyber Crime Detectives Charge Retiree From Ramsey, 79 CHILD PORN: Cyber Crime Detectives Charge Retiree From Ramsey, 79
Child Porn: Cyber Crime Detectives Charge Retiree From Ramsey, 79 A 79-year-old retiree was caught with nearly 100 child porn images at his Ramsey home, authorities said. Michael Alfone was arrested Friday and then released pending an April 6 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing in Hackensack, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said on Monday, March 21. Detectives from the prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Unit raided Alfone’s Arch Street home off Main Street on March 4 during the course of a months-long investigation, Musella said. They arrested Alfone on third-degree child porn possession charges after determining that he “used the Internet to vi…

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by Jerry DeMarco