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Levittown Man Beheads Gov't Employee Dad On YouTube, Arrested In Fort Indiantown Gap: Affidavit Levittown Man Beheads Gov't Employee Dad On YouTube, Arrested In Fort Indiantown Gap: Affidavit
Levittown Man Beheads Gov't Employee Dad On YouTube, Arrested In Fort Indiantown Gap: Affidavit A 32-year-old Levittown man beheaded his dad and posted an approximately 14-minute-long video showing his dad's head on YouTube, authorities announced late Tuesday night.  Justin Mohn beheaded his government employee dad, 68-year-old Michael F. Mohn, in a bathroom at his parents' home in the 100 block of Upper Orchard Drive, in Middletown Township, according to area police.  Authorities were called to the home when his mom, Denice Mohn, found the bloody body in the first-floor bathroom around 7 p.m. on Jan. 30, the police detailed in the affidavit of probable cause obtained by Da…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Florida Man Sextorts Children Worldwide Including 5 In PA, State Police Say Florida Man Sextorts Children Worldwide Including 5 In PA, State Police Say
Florida Man Sextorts Children Worldwide Including 5 In PA, State Police Say Five Pennsylvania children were victims of a Florida man's international sextortion scam that started more than a decade ago, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024.  Alvaro Andres Valarezo Sandoval, 34, an Ecuadorian national most recently of Miami, Florida, was arrested at his home by PSP troopers in Miami with the assistance of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, their Special Operations Team (SOT), and the Miami-Dade Police Department on Jan. 18, according to the release.  Police executed a search warrant of his home and seized num…

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by Jillian Pikora
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NJ University Junior Who Collected Child Porn Got Kids To Send Sex Vids, Authorities Charge NJ University Junior Who Collected Child Porn Got Kids To Send Sex Vids, Authorities Charge
NJ University Junior Who Collected Child Porn Got Kids To Send Sex Vids, Authorities Charge Investigators who arrested a student at Montclair State University for collecting child porn made a frightening discovery after raiding his dorm room, authorities said. The MSU junior from Burlington County had contacted underage children online using a bogus identity, then engaged them in sexually explicit chats – and even had some send him videos of them pleasuring themselves, they said. Keyon Luff, 21, of Edgewater Park, was arrested by state Division of Criminal Justice detectives assisted by Montclair State police during a raid of his on-campus dorm room last week, New Jersey Attorney …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Convicted NJ Sex Offender Charged With Trafficking Child Porn Convicted NJ Sex Offender Charged With Trafficking Child Porn
Convicted NJ Sex Offender Charged With Trafficking Child Porn A retired Marine from South Jersey who'd previously been convicted of having sex with an underage Pennsylvania girl was arrested by federal agents on child porn charges, authorities said. A U.S. District Court judge in Camden released Matthew Knapp, 38, of Lindenwold, on an unsecured bond following his arrest by Homeland Security Investigations agents last week, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced on Monday, Feb. 27. The agents found Knapp sharing the images from his home, the U.S. attorney said. A warranted search of the residence produced the seizure of, among other things, “a co…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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‘Macho’ Man Who Shared Child Porn Through Phone On Gmail, Social Media Gets 8 Years: NJ Feds ‘Macho’ Man Who Shared Child Porn Through Phone On Gmail, Social Media Gets 8 Years: NJ Feds
‘Macho’ Man Who Shared Child Porn Through Phone On Gmail, Social Media Gets 8 Years: NJ Feds A South Jersey man must spend the next eight years in federal prison for trafficking child porn. Edwin “Macho” Torres, 39, of Bridgeton, must serve out the entire plea-bargained term because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Unlike many of his kind, Torres didn’t operate on the dark web. Instead, he used his phone to upload more than 100 videos of child sexual abuse through a Gmail account to a social media app, investigators said. This led special agents of the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force in Newark and the bureau’s Atlantic City Resident Agency…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Maryland Man Traveled To New York For 'Relationship' With 13-Year-Old Pennsylvania Girl: DA Maryland Man Traveled To New York For 'Relationship' With 13-Year-Old Pennsylvania Girl: DA
Maryland Man Traveled To New York For 'Relationship' With 13-Year-Old Pennsylvania Girl: DA A judge sentenced a man after confessing to committing sex crimes with a minor “as intentional, premeditated, and planned as you can get," Assistant Lancaster County District Attorney Fritz Haverstick says.  Mirza Ahmed, a 30-year-old from Catonsville, Maryland, began an "online relationship" turn real-life sexual relationship with a 13-year-old East Lampeter Township girl in 2020, the DA's office announced in a release on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023.  Ahmed traveled to New York and then to Columbia, PA to pick up the girl and take her to a room at the Spruce Lane Lodge and Co…

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by Jillian Pikora
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CHILD PORN BUST: Cyber Crime Detectives Charge NJ Retiree, 79 CHILD PORN BUST: Cyber Crime Detectives Charge NJ Retiree, 79
Child Porn Bust: Cyber Crime Detectives Charge NJ Retiree, 79 A 79-year-old retiree was caught with nearly 100 child porn images at his Ramsey home, authorities said. Michael Alfone was arrested Friday and then released pending an April 6 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing in Hackensack, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said on Monday, March 21. Detectives from the prosecutor’s Cyber Crimes Unit raided Alfone’s Arch Street home off Main Street on March 4 during the course of a months-long investigation, Musella said. They arrested Alfone on third-degree child porn possession charges after determining that he “used the Internet to vi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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PA Dad Hoping For Sex With Teen Girl Got Undercover Officer Instead: Report PA Dad Hoping For Sex With Teen Girl Got Undercover Officer Instead: Report
PA Dad Hoping For Sex With Teen Girl Got Undercover Officer Instead: Report A central Pennsylvania man was arrested after arranging a meeting for sex with a teen girl who turned out to be an undercover police officer, Lancaster Online reports citing a criminal complaint filed by police. Fekadu Fersha Gebre, 37, of Ephrata, began texting with the undercover officer -- thinking he was a 15-year-old girl -- discussing oral sex on Tuesday around 3 p.m., according to the affidavit of probable cause obtained by the outlet. Gebre is originally from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and is a father of two, according to his social media. He posted photos about how much he loves his wi…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Chester County Man Found With Hundreds Of Child Porn Photos: State Police Chester County Man Found With Hundreds Of Child Porn Photos: State Police
Chester County Man Found With Hundreds Of Child Porn Photos: State Police A 73-year-old Chester County man was arrested after police found hundreds of photos of child pornography on his personal devices, authorities said. An investigation began in June 2021 after Chester County detectives received information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Delaware County Internet Crimes against Children Task Force, Pennsylvania State Police said. They were made aware of child pornography uploaded to an internet provider associated with James Jay Martin, of Landenberg, according to state police. A search of Martin's home turned up about 200 i…

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by Nicole Acosta
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NYC Probation Official, Lehigh Valley Resident Sentenced In Child Porn Case NYC Probation Official, Lehigh Valley Resident Sentenced In Child Porn Case
NYC Probation Official, Lehigh Valley Resident Sentenced In Child Porn Case A 54-year-old Lehigh Valley resident was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison in a child pornography case, federal authorities announced Tuesday. In March, Robert Costello of Bethlehem pleaded guilty to one count of receiving child pornography, one count of access with intent to view child pornography, and one count of possessing child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Costello, who worked as an assistant commissioner for the New York City Department of Probation, admitted to receiving child porn on the internet and storing it on multiple devices at his …

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by Nicole Acosta
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5 Berks Men Arrested In Child Pornography Sting 5 Berks Men Arrested In Child Pornography Sting
5 Berks Men Arrested In Child Pornography Sting A year-long child pornography sting has resulted in the arrests of five Berks County men, authorities said. The county-wide investigation was launched after Berks County detectives received numerous complaints from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, according to the Berks County District Attorney's Office. The complaints prompted five separate and independent child pornography investigations, which resulted in search warrants being executed at five homes, the DA's office said. The searches confirmed investigators' suspicions about the five men accused of havi…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Millersville University Senior Charged With Sharing Child Porn On Dropbox Millersville University Senior Charged With Sharing Child Porn On Dropbox
Millersville University Senior Charged With Sharing Child Porn On Dropbox A Millersville University senior and dean’s list student has been charged with multiple felonies for distributing child pornography via Dropbox.Robert George Kiesel, 21, of Rawlinsville, was slapped with five felonies for “distributing images and videos of child pornography on the internet,” according to Pennylvania State Police’s Central Computer Crimes Unit. Kiesel is an Eagle Scout who currently works on Millersville University’s Mobile Research Robotics Team, according to his Linkedin. Dropbox, the file sharing company, contacted state police about the images posted to its platform on…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Predators, Pedophiles And Perverts: Horror Stories Abound In NJ Online Child-Sex Abuse Roundup Predators, Pedophiles And Perverts: Horror Stories Abound In NJ Online Child-Sex Abuse Roundup
Predators, Pedophiles And Perverts: Horror Stories Abound In NJ Online Child-Sex Abuse Roundup A mail carrier, a train conductor and a retired corrections officer are among 31 men charged amid a massive roundup that produced some horrifying stories about online child sex abuse in the age of COVID, New Jersey authorities announced Wednesday. One of them offered money and other prizes through a social media “game” that he created to convince underage girls to send him nude photos, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Another got victims between 7 and 15 years old to send him sexual photos, then pressured them to send more by threatening to share those he had online, he said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco