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Repeat Offender Shares Child Porn To Social Media, Gets Years In Prison In Northern Westchester
A sex offender from Northern Westchester who was already on probation for another offense will spend years in prison after sharing child pornography on social media. Yorktown resident Dylan Rodriguez, age 31, was sentenced on Tuesday, March 7 to three to six years in state prison for sharing child pornography online, the Westchester County District Attorney's Office announced. Rodriguez, who was already on probation for another sex offense at the time of his arrest, uploaded a video of an approximately five-year-old female child engaged in sexual conduct to Kik, an onl…
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CNN Producer Charged With Enticing Minors Into Sexual Activity, Feds Say
A Connecticut man who was a producer at CNN headquarters in New York City has been charged with sexually abusing underage girls. The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced on Friday, Dec. 10 that Fairfield County resident John Griffin, 44, of Stamford, was arrested by the FBI after a federal grand jury in Vermont charged Griffin with three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity. According to the indictment: From April to July of 2020, Griffin utilized the messaging applic…
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Attempted Rape Conviction Of Area Man Caught In An Online Sting Upheld By Courts
The attempted rape conviction of a Hudson Valley man has been upheld by the courts during an appeal of his 2019 guilty verdict during a jury trial. The Ulster County Appellate Division affirmed the conviction last year of Orange County resident Travis Sammeth, age 36, of Newburgh, who was found guilty of attempted rape in a case connected with a sting operation of online predators, said the Ulster County District Attorney David J. Clegg. His conviction stems from an incident on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, when Sammeth made contact with an undercover police officer working with an FBI task…
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West Point Staff Sergeant From Area Charged For Distributing Child Porn
A staff sergeant at West Point who lives in the area has been charged for distributing child pornography, federal prosecutors announced. Orange County resident Patrick Edwin Gorychka, 37, of New Windsor, was arrested Wednesday, Dec. 4, and charged with one count of distribution and receipt of child pornography, said Geoffrey Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The charge carries a minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum sentence of 20 years. According to the complaint filed in White Plains federal court Thursday, Dec…
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Warwick Man Sentenced For Luring Minors To Send Sexually Explicit Photos
A 23-year-old registered sex offender in the Hudson Valley has been sentenced to nearly two decades behind bars after pleading guilty to posing as a child on social media to entice minors for sex. Geoffrey Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District, announced this week that Robert Garneau of Warwick in Orange County has been sentenced to 16 years in state prison after pleading guilty to three counts of enticement of a minor last May. According to court documents, from September 2014 through December 2014, Garneau communicated online via Instagram and Kik with a 12-year-old…