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Philly Man Who Tried Luring 12-Year-Old Into Prostitution At Hotel Gets Decade: Feds Philly Man Who Tried Luring 12-Year-Old Into Prostitution At Hotel Gets Decade: Feds
Philly Man Who Tried Luring 12-Year-Old Into Prostitution At Hotel Gets Decade: Feds A 41-year-old Philadelphia man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison on Monday, Jan. 27 after pleading guilty in United States District Court in Camden to trying to engage what he thought was a 12-year-old into prostitution, authorities said. In August 2023, Louis Goldenberg began interacting on a messaging application with an undercover agent, who was posing as a middle-aged woman with a 12-year-old niece, US Attorney Vikas Khanna said. From August through September 2023, Goldenberg messaged the undercover agent, continuously expressing interest in having sexual contact with the…

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by Sam Barron
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Reading Meth, Fentanyl Trafficker Arrested: DA Says Reading Meth, Fentanyl Trafficker Arrested: DA Says
Reading Meth, Fentanyl Trafficker Arrested: DA Says A Reading man was arrested for distributing methamphetamine and fentanyl after a months-long investigation, Berks County authorities announced Friday, Jan. 24. Walter Carrera, 38, of 1219 Windsor Street, was taken into custody when detectives and Pennsylvania State Troopers served a search warrant at his home earlier in the day, Chief County Detective Michael Gombar said. The investigation began in October 2024, with undercover purchases and surveillance identifying Carrera as a distributor, Gombar said. During the search of his residence, detectives seized: Approximately six grams of fen…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Philly Area Meth Dealer Sold Drugs To Undercover FBI Agent, Feds Say Philly Area Meth Dealer Sold Drugs To Undercover FBI Agent, Feds Say
Philly Area Meth Dealer Sold Drugs To Undercover FBI Agent, Feds Say A Reading man will spend the better part of a decade behind bars for selling methamphetamine to an undercover FBI agent, federal authorities announced Tuesday, Oct. 18.  William F. Showers, 37, was sentenced to 100 months — or more than eight years — in federal prison plus five years supervised release for possessing over 50 grams of meth with intent to distribute, said US Attorney Gerard Karam.  Prosecutors said Showers "conspired with others" to sell more than 200 grams of the drug, including 50 grams of "actual or pure methamphetamine." The undercover agent purchased…

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by Mac Bullock
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PA Man Sends Nudes To Undercover FBI Agent: DA PA Man Sends Nudes To Undercover FBI Agent: DA
PA Man Sends Nudes To Undercover FBI Agent: DA Two undercover agents caught a central Pennsylvania man using the social media app Kik to make child pornography, according to the Lancaster County district attorney's office. The sting operation began after the Lancaster County Human Trafficking Task Force received a tip from the FBI that Sean Deemer, 54, of the 500 block of Golden Street, Lititz,'s IP address was linked to child porn and grooming on the app on May 3. Between the dates of May 6 and 12, 2021, the FBI posed as an 11-year-old girl Kik and had a conversation with Deemer. A subpoena served to Kik by the FBI revealed the I…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Navy Engineer, Wife Admit Trying To Sell American Submarine Secrets For Cryptocurrency: Feds Navy Engineer, Wife Admit Trying To Sell American Submarine Secrets For Cryptocurrency: Feds
Navy Engineer, Wife Admit Trying To Sell American Submarine Secrets For Cryptocurrency: Feds The wife of a former Navy engineer from Maryland has also admitted in federal court that she helped him try to sell some of America’s best kept submarine secrets to a foreign country in exchange for cryptocurrency. Diana Toebbe, 46, of Annapolis, served as a lookout while her husband, Jonathan Toebbe, 43, serviced three “dead-drops," which were picked up by undercover FBI agents during a year-long sting operation, federal prosecutors said Friday. Diana pleaded guilty to conspiracy to communicate Restricted Data — four days after her husband admitted to the same. The Toebbes were …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Contractor Agrees To Meet With Officer Posing As Girl, 13, In Undercover Sting: Police Contractor Agrees To Meet With Officer Posing As Girl, 13, In Undercover Sting: Police
Contractor Agrees To Meet With Officer Posing As Girl, 13, In Undercover Sting: Police A 34-year-old man who agreed to meet with an officer posing as a minor was arrested in an undercover sting, authorities in Berks County said. Jeremy Kreiser, of Fleetwood, messaged a social media account and agreed to meet the 13-year-old girl -- who was actually an undercover officer -- outside of an elementary school in Reading where he had been working as a private construction contractor, Reading police said. When he went out to meet the "girl" on Tuesday, he was arrested, according to police. The Reading School District was immediately notified by police. The school has not been spec…

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by Nicole Acosta
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PA Man Tried Meeting Undercover Agent Posing As 13-Year-Old Girl For Sex: DA PA Man Tried Meeting Undercover Agent Posing As 13-Year-Old Girl For Sex: DA
PA Man Tried Meeting Undercover Agent Posing As 13-Year-Old Girl For Sex: DA A Montgomery County man was arrested after he tried meeting with an undercover agent acting as a 13-year-old girl for sex, authorities announced. Mark Morris, 56, of King of Prussia, responded to the agent on social media after he posted "Bored... Entertain me," on Nov. 11 at 9:37 a.m.,  Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and Conshohocken Borough Police Chief George Metz said. The conversation included talking about meeting in person and the sex acts that he wanted to perform on her, authorities said.  The back-and-forth text conversation continued throughout the…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Man Agrees To Sex With Officer Posing As Prostitute In Undercover Berks Sting, Police Say Man Agrees To Sex With Officer Posing As Prostitute In Undercover Berks Sting, Police Say
Man Agrees To Sex With Officer Posing As Prostitute In Undercover Berks Sting, Police Say A 51-year-old man who agreed to have sex with an officer posing as a prostitute was arrested in an undercover sting, authorities in Berks County said. David Denithorne responded to an ad placed on sex websites and agreed to meet a prostitute-- who was actually an undercover officer -- at a motel for sex, Wyomissing police said. Denithorne was released at the scene on April 21. Prostitution-related charges were filed with District Court. 

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by Nicole Acosta
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Feds: Allentown Man Charged For Hiring Hitman To Kill Ex-GF, Tried To Arrange More Murders Feds: Allentown Man Charged For Hiring Hitman To Kill Ex-GF, Tried To Arrange More Murders
Feds: Allentown Man Charged For Hiring Hitman To Kill Ex-GF, Tried To Arrange More Murders After being charged with hiring a hitman to kill his ex-girlfriend, a Lehigh County man was newly charged with attempting to arrange the murders of two more people, authorities said. Dominic Luis Escalera, 37, allegedly traveled to Newark, NJ from Jan. 28 to Feb. 17 to organize the murders of two Allentown residents described in federal documents as M.R and A.R, according to Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams. He made an agreement to pay someone to commit the murders using drugs and cash, authorities said. The Indictment alleges that knowing Escalera had previously b…

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by Nicole Acosta