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'I Think I Found A Child Predator': YouTube-Inspired Sleuth Helps Police Nab CT Man In Sting 'I Think I Found A Child Predator': YouTube-Inspired Sleuth Helps Police Nab CT Man In Sting
'I Think I Found A Child Predator': YouTube-Inspired Sleuth Helps Police Nab CT Man In Sting After watching YouTube videos about catching child predators, a civilian helped state police arrest a Connecticut man accused of trying to meet a 15-year-old boy through a dating app, authorities said. Eric Vendette, 49, of Stafford, was charged with risk of injury to a minor and using a computer to entice a minor under 18, Connecticut State Police announced. According to investigators, the citizen sleuth contacted Vendette online and asked if he was “into younger men.” From there, the conversations escalated. Vendette, police said, claimed he would act like a father figure but continued to…
Conjoined Twin Carmen Andrade Says 'I Do,' In Quiet CT Ceremony; Sister Says 'I Won't' Conjoined Twin Carmen Andrade Says 'I Do,' In Quiet CT Ceremony; Sister Says 'I Won't'
Conjoined Twin Carmen Andrade Says 'I Do,' In Quiet CT Ceremony; Sister Says 'I Won't' Carmen Andrade, one of a pair of conjoined twins, has married her longtime boyfriend, Daniel McCormack, in a quiet family ceremony in New Milford, Connecticut.  The couple met on the dating app Hinge in 2020 and had been together for nearly five years before deciding to tie the knot at a small ceremony at Lovers Leap Bridge over the Housatonic River. “We eloped in October with our families,” Carmen told Today. They exchanged vows on Lover’s Leap Bridge, surrounded by close relatives. Carmen wore a long, green, glittering dress and proudly displayed her ring in a YouTube video titl…
They Steal Your Heart, Then Steal Your Money: Romance Scammers Make It Look Easy They Steal Your Heart, Then Steal Your Money: Romance Scammers Make It Look Easy
They Steal Your Heart, Then Steal Your Money: Romance Scammers Make It Look Easy It's heartbreaking to discover that someone you've become enamored with online isn't into you, but it’s even worse to realize that person just made off with $3,500 of your money. That’s what happened to a Glen Rock resident who ended up wiring the dough to a sweet talker in the Dominican Republic. Suffice to say: It wasn’t coming back. Although $3,500 is a significant sum to some, it’s couch cushion change compared with the $450,000 in crypto lost last year by another romance scam victim from Glen Rock. According to the Federal Trade Commission, a staggering $1.3 BILLION was lost by 70,000…
DATING APP HELL: 'He Has A Knife' NJ Teen Held Hostage For Year In PA, Authorities Say DATING APP HELL: 'He Has A Knife' NJ Teen Held Hostage For Year In PA, Authorities Say
Dating APP Hell: 'He Has A Knife' NJ Teen Held Hostage For Year In PA, Authorities Say An 18-year-old New Jersey woman texted 911 for "help escaping" after being held against her will in Pennsylvania for a year by a man she met through a dating app, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Daily Voice.  32-year-old Nikolaus Breland, of Monongahela, was arrested on Sunday, Nov. 20, according to the complaint. The teenager said that her abusive boyfriend who had been holding her captive was asleep and she wanted help escaping, she told the Washington County 911 center around 9:45 p.m., according to the criminal complaint   ***WARNING the following…
NJ Dating App Serial Killer Gets 160 Years In State Prison NJ Dating App Serial Killer Gets 160 Years In State Prison
NJ Dating App Serial Killer Gets 160 Years In State Prison A New Jersey man who used dating apps to lure and kill three women -- and tried to kill a fourth -- was sentenced to 160 years behind bars. Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, now 25, of Orange, was sentenced for three murders, an attempted murder and other counts of aggravated arson, desecration of human remain and kidnapping. Weaver was convicted in 2019 in on three counts of murder in connection with the deaths of Sarah Butler, 20, Robin West, 19, and Joanne Brown, 33.  He was also found guilty of the kidnapping, sexual assault, and attempted murder of a fourth woman, Tiffany Taylor, who surviv…
Vatican City, NJ Priests Using Hookup Apps Alarms Catholic Church Officials, Reports Say Vatican City, NJ Priests Using Hookup Apps Alarms Catholic Church Officials, Reports Say
Vatican City, NJ Priests Using Hookup Apps Alarms Catholic Church Officials, Reports Say A conservative Catholic media organization has published a series of reports claiming that priests at New Jersey churches and the Vatican have been using hookup apps. "The Pillar" collected and reviewed commercially available app signal indicating patterns on location-based hookup apps at more than 10 rectories within the Archdiocese of Newark between 2018 and 2020, the blog reported July 23. The data apparently shows evidence that "both homosexual and heterosexual hookup apps were used in parish rectories or other clerical residences with a frequency suggesting, in several cases, residence…