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'Operation Bad Santa': 12 Child Predators Arrested In NJ Holiday Bust, Prosecutor Says 'Operation Bad Santa': 12 Child Predators Arrested In NJ Holiday Bust, Prosecutor Says
'Operation Bad Santa': 12 Child Predators Arrested In NJ Holiday Bust, Prosecutor Says Twelve men have been arrested and charged following "Operation Bad Santa", a sting to bust alleged child predators in Central Jersey, authorities announced Monday, Dec. 22. Operation Bad Santa was led by the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and numerous police departments in the county, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said. The men arrested were speaking with undercover officers who they believed to be children, Ciccone said. The men were arrested when they arrived at an undercover residence, where they ex…

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by Sam Barron
News
Undercover Prostitution Sting Nets 4 Arrests In Passaic County: Sheriff Undercover Prostitution Sting Nets 4 Arrests In Passaic County: Sheriff
Undercover Prostitution Sting Nets 4 Arrests In Passaic County: Sheriff Four women were arrested during an undercover prostitution bust at multiple spas in Passaic County, authorities announced Friday, July 25. The undercover operation took place on Wednesday, July 23 in Woodland Park, following “numerous complaints” of suspected prostitution in the area, Passaic County Sheriff Thomas Adamo said. Detectives from the Passaic County Sheriff’s Office and Woodland Park Police Department deployed undercover officers to several massage parlors. During the operations, detectives were offered sexual favors in exchange for money rather than standard massage servic…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
NJ Firefighter Told Undercover Agent He Likes Young Girls, Hid Cameras To Record Kids: AG NJ Firefighter Told Undercover Agent He Likes Young Girls, Hid Cameras To Record Kids: AG
NJ Firefighter Told Undercover Agent He Likes Young Girls, Hid Cameras To Record Kids: AG A 42-year-old New Jersey firefighter arrested last month for convincing a girl to send him pornography is facing new charges after police say he used a hidden camera to record children in his bathroom and then tried to meet someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl. Bradford "Brad" Flaker, of Hawthorne, was charged with first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, second-degree luring, second-degree attempted sexual assault, and several second-degree counts of manufacturing, possessing, and distributing child sexual abuse material, Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced Wednesday.…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
NJ Man Tried To Meet With Boy In For Sex, Was Arrested Instead In Hotel Parking Lot: DA NJ Man Tried To Meet With Boy In For Sex, Was Arrested Instead In Hotel Parking Lot: DA
NJ Man Tried To Meet With Boy In For Sex, Was Arrested Instead In Hotel Parking Lot: DA A New Jersey man arrested in an undercover child exploitation operation in the parking lot of a Rockland County hotel has now been formally indicted on charges including attempted rape, prosecutors announced.  Essex County resident Carl Ellis, 55, of Maplewood, NJ, was arraigned Wednesday, May 21, in Rockland County Court on an indictment charging him with several felonies, the Rockland County District Attorney's Office announced on Thursday, May 22.  According to Rockland County District Attorney Thomas E. Walsh II, Ellis engaged in sexually explicit text conversations between Ap…

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by Ben Crnic
Police & Fire
20 Years In Prison For German Man Who Traveled To NJ For Sex With Kids: Feds 20 Years In Prison For German Man Who Traveled To NJ For Sex With Kids: Feds
20 Years In Prison For German Man Who Traveled To NJ For Sex With Kids: Feds A 40-year-old German man was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday, Dec. 18 after admitting he traveled to New Jersey to have sex with a minor, authorities said. In January 2023, undercover officers began chatting with Christian Stefan Walther abut his desire to have sex with young children, US Attorney Philip Sellinger said.  Walther sent an undercover officer two videos, each of which depicted an adult male engaging in sexual conduct with a prepubescent aged female child, Sellinger said. Walther also expressed his desire to engage in sexual conduct with children aged…

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
Undercover Sting Exposes Butt Lifts, Treatments Offered In Unlicensed NJ Woman's Home: Cops Undercover Sting Exposes Butt Lifts, Treatments Offered In Unlicensed NJ Woman's Home: Cops
Undercover Sting Exposes Butt Lifts, Treatments Offered In Unlicensed NJ Woman's Home: Cops A New Jersey woman was accused of performing Brazilian butt lifts and wrinkle removals at an unlicensed medical practice, authorities said. Yamile Mattos, 61, of South Plainfield, was charged with unlicensed practice of medicine, possession with intent to distribute prescription legend drugs, and possession of counterfeit or misbranded prescription legend drugs, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said in a news release on Wednesday, Dec. 18. Undercover officers posed as clients seeking cosmetic procedures at a Park Avenue home on Tuesday, Dec. 17. During the sti…

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by Chris Spiker