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'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'
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…
NJ Man Thought He'd Get Sex With 12-Year-Old — Then He Was Arrested: AG
A 36-year-old Brown Mills man was charged on Friday, June 6, after he tried to arrange sex with a 12-year-old girl, authorities said.
On Monday, April 7, a police officer officer posing as the mother of a 12-year-old girl was contacted on a dating app by Lockwood, and they began exchanging messages, Platkin said.
Lockwood told the "woman" he was into taboo sex, saying, "Daddy daughter is my favorite. Uncle niece fun too."
When the undercover officer told Lockwood her daughter was 12 years old, Lockwood requested pictures, Platkin said.
Over the next month, Lockwood repeatedly asked to mee…
