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Infant Raped By Horsham Man While Making Child Porn: MontCo DA Infant Raped By Horsham Man While Making Child Porn: MontCo DA
Infant Raped By Horsham Man While Making Child Porn: MontCo DA A Montgomery County man raped a 10-month-old boy while making child pornography, according to authorities. Brian Groo, 24, of Horsham, was charged after a video of the infant being raped was found online on Wednesday, Oct. 30, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said. Authorities initially learned of the video after receiving a cybertip from the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children on the same date, according to the district attorney. The video had been shared via an online messaging app called Kik. The cybertip indicated that the video appeared to be newly produc…
PA Daycare Worker, Mom, BF Made Children Perform Sex Acts: Affidavit PA Daycare Worker, Mom, BF Made Children Perform Sex Acts: Affidavit
PA Daycare Worker, Mom, BF Made Children Perform Sex Acts: Affidavit Multiple videos found on a man's phone of young children being sexually abused or being forced to commit sex acts by and on a daycare employee and Mechanicsburg mom have led to two arrests in Cumberland County, according to court documents received by Daily Voice on Monday, Sept. 16.  Morgan Rothenhoefer, 24, of Mechanicsburg, has been charged with the following felonies: corruption of minors, five counts of filming a sex act of a child, deviate sexual intercourse of a child, aggravated indecent assault with a child under 13, and child rape. Jamie Souders, 41, of Middlesex, has be…
Chambersburg Man Sextorted Woman After Snapchat Hacks: USDOJ Chambersburg Man Sextorted Woman After Snapchat Hacks: USDOJ
Chambersburg Man Sextorted Woman After Snapchat Hacks: Usdoj  A 25-year-old Chambersburg man has been sentenced in connection with the hacking of women's Snapchat accounts and subsequent sextorting of them, the US Department of Justice announced on Thursday, Aug. 1.  Reginald "Reggie" Adams was sentenced to 22 months in prison and three years of supervised release by Senior United States District Court Judge Michael Baylson "for hacking into numerous social media accounts and circulating the victims’ private photographs," United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero detailed in the release. Adams had previously pleaded guilty to wir…
Member Of Burglary Crew That Targeted Asian Homeowners On 'Hit List' In NJ, NY, PA, Sentenced Member Of Burglary Crew That Targeted Asian Homeowners On 'Hit List' In NJ, NY, PA, Sentenced
Member Of Burglary Crew That Targeted Asian Homeowners On 'Hit List' In NJ, NY, PA, Sentenced 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: A confessed member of a burglary ring that targeted Asian-American small business owners in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison. Kevin Jackson, 57, of Rahway, NJ, must serve a little over two years before he'll be eligible for release because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Jackson was part of a second-story crew that the FBI said worked from a hit list of dozens of homes in the four states based on “stereotype and opportunity" from Dec. 2, 2016, to March 20, 2019. One of Jackson's associates told detectives t…
PA Man Rapes Pit Bull Multiple Times In Videos Posted On Twitter: Affidavit PA Man Rapes Pit Bull Multiple Times In Videos Posted On Twitter: Affidavit
PA Man Rapes Pit Bull Multiple Times In Videos Posted On Twitter: Affidavit Editor’s Note: This story was originally published with an image that was not that of Gavin Thomas Kitchen, but of another person. The image has since been removed. Apologies. A Central Pennsylvania man admitted to performing "sex acts" with a pit bull— and uploading videos of the acts along with child porn onto Twitter, according to court documents obtained by Daily Voice.  Pennsylvania State Police began investigating 21-year-old Gavin Thomas Kitchen after receiving a cyber tip submitted by Twitter back in January 2023, according to a release on Thursday, June 22, 2023.  When t…
Heard But Not Seen: Nigerian National Nabbed In $250,000 Audiobooks Scheme, NJ Feds Say Heard But Not Seen: Nigerian National Nabbed In $250,000 Audiobooks Scheme, NJ Feds Say
Heard But Not Seen: Nigerian National Nabbed In $250,000 Audiobooks Scheme, NJ Feds Say A Nigerian national living in Bangladesh contracted with more than 600 voice actors to produce audiobooks of written works that he didn't hold the rights to, federal authorities in New Jersey charged. Anyanwu Benjamin Chizitere, 30, of Enugu, Nigeria, was part of a group that collected more than $250,000 by infringing on the copyright of a Newark-based company and its authors, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. Chizitere worked for a financial services business that provided online money transfer and digital payment services to the company, the U.S. attorney said. He po…
Foreigner Charged In $100M Ransomware Assault That Victimized Innocent Computer Users Foreigner Charged In $100M Ransomware Assault That Victimized Innocent Computer Users
Foreigner Charged In $100M Ransomware Assault That Victimized Innocent Computer Users A Russian and Canadian national who participated in a campaign that extorted tens of millions of dollars from Internet users will be brought to New Jersey to face federal charges, authorities announced. Mikhail Vasiliev, 33, of Bradford, Ontario, was among a group that began attacking more than 1,000 computer users in the U.S. and throughout the world as early as January 2020, federal officials said on Thursday, Nov. 10. Vasiliev and his fellow LockBit members demanded at least $100 million in ransom demands after locking up the victims' devices, they said. Vasiliev was arrested on Wednesd…
Worldwide Ransomware Rampage: Iranians Hack NJ Town, PA Domestic Violence Shelter, Feds Charge Worldwide Ransomware Rampage: Iranians Hack NJ Town, PA Domestic Violence Shelter, Feds Charge
Worldwide Ransomware Rampage: Iranians Hack NJ Town, PA Domestic Violence Shelter, Feds Charge Federal authorities are offering a $10 million reward to help locate a trio of Iranian nationals who held the computer systems of a New Jersey town, a domestic violence shelter in Pennsylvania and hundreds of other victims across the U.S. and abroad hostage in a series of hack attacks. Using Microsoft’s BitLocker security tool, the hackers locked up and then stole secure files before sending ransom notes – some of which were spit out on the victims’ printers, the FBI said on Wednesday, Sept. 14. The unidentified shelter ended up paying $13,000 in bitcoin to retrieve its files, according to …
Feds Charge MD Man In $246,390 401(k) Theft From NJ Employee Feds Charge MD Man In $246,390 401(k) Theft From NJ Employee
Feds Charge MD Man In $246,390 401(k) Theft From NJ Employee A Maryland man conspired with others to steal $246,390 from a New Jersey worker’s 401(k), federal authorities charged. Oladapo Sunday Ogunbiyi, 40, of Greenbelt, and others secretly tapped into the fund, added a bank account belonging to someone else and began steering money into it, an indictment returned by a grand jury in U.S. District Court alleges. “Ogunbiyi and others directed that the fraud proceeds be converted into cashier’s checks, which were provided to Ogunbiyi,” U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. “He then deposited the cashier’s checks into bank accounts under his control…
Central PA Man Who Raped 5-Year-Old Caught On Video Uploaded To Google Drive: DA Central PA Man Who Raped 5-Year-Old Caught On Video Uploaded To Google Drive: DA
Central PA Man Who Raped 5-Year-Old Caught On Video Uploaded To Google Drive: DA A central Pennsylvania man is heading to prison after videos and photos of him raping a 5-year-old surfaced on a Google Drive, according to the Lancaster County district attorney's office. John F. Henry, 37, of the 400 block of Pearl Street in Lancaster, was sentenced to serve 37 ½ to 76 years in prison after pleading guilty to 15 charges including rape of a child by Lancaster County Judge Donald Totaro on Dec. 29, according to the release. Henry not only raped and sexually assaulted the young child but used his personal email to upload the images and videos to Google Drive and Google Phot…
Ruthless But Reliable? Ransom Group Tied To Colonial Pipeline Hack Says They're Not Bad Guys Ruthless But Reliable? Ransom Group Tied To Colonial Pipeline Hack Says They're Not Bad Guys
Ruthless But Reliable? Ransom Group Tied To Colonial Pipeline Hack Says They're Not Bad Guys Darknet cyberhackers whose ransomware forced the shutdown of a 5,500-mile pipeline between New Jersey and Texas said Monday that they’re in it for the money and not to disrupt society. DarkSide, which popped up last summer, has presented itself as a band of online Robin Hoods who sell the tools to extort businesses and organizations to cyber-burglars and then donate a portion of their take to charitable organizations. It remained unclear exactly who targeted the Colonial Pipeline on Friday, jamming an estimate 2.5 million daily barrels of jet fuel, gasoline and other refined product deliver…
Prosecutor: South Jersey Man, 50, Caught With Sexually Exploitive Images Of Children Prosecutor: South Jersey Man, 50, Caught With Sexually Exploitive Images Of Children
Prosecutor: South Jersey Man, 50, Caught With Sexually Exploitive Images Of Children A Camden County man has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after illegal images were found on his computer, authorities said. Marc Herck, 50, of Somerdale was charged after detectives found images of child sexual exploitation on his computer, according to Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill Mayer and Somerdale Police Chief James Walsh. The search followed a cyber tip that alleged someone at Herck's home was searching for sexually explicit images containing children, Mayer and Walsh said. On Wednesday, detectives from the High-Tech Crimes Unit (HTCU), Somerdale Polic…