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Posing As Teen To Get Underage Nudes Nets Capital Region Man Decades In Prison Posing As Teen To Get Underage Nudes Nets Capital Region Man Decades In Prison
Posing As Teen To Get Underage Nudes Nets Capital Region Man Decades In Prison After confessing that he posed as a teenager in order to trick underage girls into sending naked pictures, a man from the region will spend decades in prison. Schenectady resident Thomas Ullman, age 47, was sentenced to 25 years behind bars in Albany federal court on Thursday, March 28. It followed his guilty plea to sexual exploitation of a child. Federal prosecutors said Ullman posed as a teenage boy on a dating website for teens and convinced multiple underage girls to text and video chat with him between March 2020 and June 2021. He then instructed the girls, some as young as 13, to en…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Sex Offender From Region Nabbed For Failing To Register, Police Say Sex Offender From Region Nabbed For Failing To Register, Police Say
Sex Offender From Region Nabbed For Failing To Register, Police Say A sex offender from the region is behind bars after allegedly failing to register under state law. Sullivan County resident Pedro Correa, age 57, of the village of Liberty was charged on Monday, Dec. 11, during a routine check of sex offenders in the area.  Village of Liberty Police Chief Steven D'Agata said under the law all individuals designated as sex offenders as a result of a criminal conviction for a sex offense are required to register their physical address and certain internet accounts and identifiers. During the visit by officers to Correa's home, police found he …

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by Kathy Reakes
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Capital Region Sex Offender Sentenced For Escaping Halfway House Capital Region Sex Offender Sentenced For Escaping Halfway House
Capital Region Sex Offender Sentenced For Escaping Halfway House A convicted sex offender from the region will spend additional time in federal prison for escaping from a halfway house. Glyn Frink, age 51, of Albany, was sentenced to three years behind bars Thursday, Sept. 29, after admitting that he signed out of a residential re-entry center to go to work in September 2021 and then never came back. Instead, he stayed in the Albany area without approval and failed to notify Albany Police of his change of address as required under the sex offender registry laws, the US Attorney's Office in the Northern District said. At the time, Frink was serving 15 y…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Police Locate Wanted Sex Offender From Capital District Who Failed To Register Police Locate Wanted Sex Offender From Capital District Who Failed To Register
Police Locate Wanted Sex Offender From Capital District Who Failed To Register Authorities have located a wanted, convicted rapist from the Capital District who they said failed to update his sex offender registration. In Albany County, William Goodman was arrested at a Latham motel on Monday, July 18, according to Troy Police. Earlier report: Police Issue Alert For Convicted Rapist From Troy Who Failed To Re-Register The arrest came just four days after Troy Police issued an alert saying Goodman, age 47, was wanted for several felony violations of New York State Corrections law, including failing to register. Goodman, a Level 3 Sex Offender, was convicted in 1…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Capital District Man Admits To Attempt To Entice, Transfer Obscene Material To Minor Capital District Man Admits To Attempt To Entice, Transfer Obscene Material To Minor
Capital District Man Admits To Attempt To Entice, Transfer Obscene Material To Minor A Capital District man could spend decades in prison after admitting that he tried to engage in sex acts with a 14-year-old child. Greene County resident Thomas Squires, age 37, of Cairo, pleaded guilty Tuesday, June 14, to attempting to entice and transfer obscene material to a minor, according to the US Attorney’s Office in the North District. Squires admitted that in July and August 2020 he sent graphic, sexually explicit text messages to who he thought was the teen, but was actually an undercover investigator, prosecutors said. He also repeatedly asked the child for naked photos. The…

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by Michael Mashburn