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Rockland Pedophile Gets 25 Years In Federal Pen For Making, Sharing Images Of Sex With NJ Child Rockland Pedophile Gets 25 Years In Federal Pen For Making, Sharing Images Of Sex With NJ Child
Rockland Pedophile Gets 25 Years In Federal Pen For Making, Sharing Images Of Sex With NJ Child A Rockland man was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in federal prison for taking and sharing sex videos and images that he made with a New Jersey child. Richard Murphy, 33, of Pearl River will have to serve out just about the entire sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Murphy told a judge in Newark in June that he "persuaded a child to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of taking photos and videos of that conduct" in December 2016, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said. Murphy also "admitted that he took video of the child performi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Corrections Officer From Lodi Admits Collecting Child Porn NJ Corrections Officer From Lodi Admits Collecting Child Porn
NJ Corrections Officer From Lodi Admits Collecting Child Porn A now-former state corrections officer from Lodi admitted in federal court in Newark on Friday that he collected images of child abuse at a time when the government said he was trying to arrange a tryst with what he thought was an 8-year-old girl. Stephen Salamak, 38, admitted using email "to seek and obtain images of child pornography, including images of prepubescent children" while working as a senior corrections officer at East Jersey State Prison in Rahway, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. He also tried to arrange to have sex with an 8-year-old girl through a person he tho…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Feds Raid Home Near Cliffside Park High School, Bust Resident For Child Porn Feds Raid Home Near Cliffside Park High School, Bust Resident For Child Porn
Feds Raid Home Near Cliffside Park High School, Bust Resident For Child Porn Federal agents busted a Cliffside Park native on charges of trafficking child porn. A federal judge in Newark released George Karkantzelis, 27, hours after agents of the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) arrested him at his home -- just two blocks from the borough police station and Cliffside Park High School -- on Thursday. "Karkantzelis used peer-to-peer file sharing on his computer to distribute files containing images and videos of child sexual abuse, including images of prepubescent children," U.S Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito s…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Rockland Man Admits Having Sex With Child In NJ, Sharing The Video Rockland Man Admits Having Sex With Child In NJ, Sharing The Video
Rockland Man Admits Having Sex With Child In NJ, Sharing The Video A Rockland County man admitted Wednesday in federal court in Newark that he took and then shared sex videos and images that he made with a child in New Jersey. Richard Murphy, 32, of Pearl River told a judge in Newark that he "persuaded a child to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of taking photos and videos of that conduct" in December 2016, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Murphy also "admitted that he took video of the child performing a sex act on him" and shared the images online, Carpenito said. U.S. District Judge John Michael Vazquez schedul…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
US Customs Agent From Lyndhurst Admits Terrorizing Fellow Workers US Customs Agent From Lyndhurst Admits Terrorizing Fellow Workers
US Customs Agent From Lyndhurst Admits Terrorizing Fellow Workers A Customs and Border Protection officer from Lyndhurst admitted beating and terrorizing fellow employees at Newark Airport, federal authorities said Tuesday. Another CBP worker from Hawthorne and a co-worker were indicted Tuesday on similar charges, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Tito Catota, 38, admitted Monday that he and his two co-defendants -- Parmenio I. Perez, 40, of Hawthorne and Michael A. Papagni, 32, of Staten Island – “assaulted, impeded, intimidated, and interfered” with two CBP officers while on the job. The trio, "who were members of a unit responsible for identify…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Feds: South Korean Child Rapist From River Edge Lied In Naturalization Bid Feds: South Korean Child Rapist From River Edge Lied In Naturalization Bid
Feds: South Korean Child Rapist From River Edge Lied In Naturalization Bid Federal agents on Thursday arrested a South Korean national from River Edge who they said didn’t admit having sex with a child when he applied for naturalization. Kyung Lim Park, a/k/a “Howard Kyung Lim Park,” 65, admitted in Superior Court in Hackensack in March 2016 that he had sex with the child at least three times. Park, who pleaded guilty to child endangerment and sexual conduct by a non-caretaker, was later sentenced to five years probation, with lifetime community service and the requirement that he register as a sex offender under Megan’s Law. Park had lawfully entered the U.S. fr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Warning From Homeland Security, FBI: Russia Wants To Hack Your ISP Router Warning From Homeland Security, FBI: Russia Wants To Hack Your ISP Router
Warning From Homeland Security, FBI: Russia Wants To Hack Your ISP Router With the entire world watching what turn the international Russian conflict takes next, federal officials are warning area residents that a cyber strike could be the newest threat as hackers target routers and other network devices. The Department of Homeland Security, FBI and United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre issued a joint Technical Alert on the “worldwide cyber exploitation of network infrastructure devices (such as a) router, switch, firewall, Network-based Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) devices by Russian state-sponsored cyber actors.” Officials said that targets are p…

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by Zak Failla