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Manassas, VA
Police & Fire
Mamta Bhatt's Husband Handcuffed, Escorted Out Of Manassas Park Home Following Search Mamta Bhatt's Husband Handcuffed, Escorted Out Of Manassas Park Home Following Search
Mamta Bhatt's Husband Handcuffed, Escorted Out Of Manassas Park Home Following Search Charges have been filed against Naresh Bhatt in his wife's disappearance, police announced. On Thursday afternoon, Aug. 22, Manassas Park police announced that Naresh Bhatt was charged with prohibition against concealment of dead body after a search warrant was executed at the home he shared with Mamta Kafle Bhatt. The 28-year-old mother went missing late last month, and her husband was the last person to have spoken to her, police said. Police did not say whether or not a body was found, and said only that they found additional evidence in their home. Mamta’s 1-year-old daughter was…

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by Cecilia Levine
Mechanicsville, MD
News
10-Year-Old Child Shot To Death Inside Maryland Home: State Police 10-Year-Old Child Shot To Death Inside Maryland Home: State Police
10-Year-Old Child Shot To Death Inside Maryland Home: State Police A 10-year-old boy was killed in Maryland while inside a home with his mother and other young children on Monday night, state police say. The search is on for a suspect as troopers continue to attempt locating a wanted shooting suspect who killed the boy in Salisbury on Aug. 5. According to Maryland State Police, at approximately 10:30 p.m. on Monday night, officers from the Salisbury Police Department responded to a home in the 200 block of Clayton Street, where they found the 10-year-old suffering from a gunshot wound. He was treated by paramedics and rushed to Tidal Health Medical Center…

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by Zak Failla
Reading, PA
Police & Fire
Sex Offender Husband, Wife Face Child Pornography Charges: Berks County DA Sex Offender Husband, Wife Face Child Pornography Charges: Berks County DA
Sex Offender Husband, Wife Face Child Pornography Charges: Berks County DA A convicted sex offender and his Reading wife have been arrested on child pornography charges, according to the Berks County District Attorney's Office.  Dennis Deiter, 46, and Elizabeth Deiter, 34, both "admitted to utilizing their respective cellular telephones to view child pornography," prosecutors wrote in a release on Wednesday, July 24.  Detectives began investigating the pair after receiving a complaint from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, authorities said. The investigation led them to the Deiters' South 12th Street home where they e…

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by Mac Bullock
Reading, PA
News
Berks Man Had 400+ Files Of Child Pornography On Phone, DA Says Berks Man Had 400+ Files Of Child Pornography On Phone, DA Says
Berks Man Had 400+ Files Of Child Pornography On Phone, DA Says A Sinking Spring man was taken into custody after a police raid turned up hundreds of files of child sexual abuse material, said Berks County prosecutors.  Andrew M. Bush was charged with child pornography and related counts, wrote the District Attorney's Office in a release.  Authorities said they received a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for a “MediaLab/KIK” account associated with Bush. They executed a search warrant at his Beavens Road home and seized his cell phone, according to prosecutors.  In an interview with detectives, t…

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by Mac Bullock
Middletown, NJ
Police & Fire
Skeletal Remains Found At Jersey Shore Construction Site: Prosecutor Skeletal Remains Found At Jersey Shore Construction Site: Prosecutor
Skeletal Remains Found At Jersey Shore Construction Site: Prosecutor An investigation is under way in a Jersey Shore town where skeletal remains were found, authorities confirmed. The remains were found on a piece of property on the 1100 block of Narrumson Road in Wall Township Tuesday, March 12 where work is being done, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago and Wall Township Police Chief Sean O'Halloran said. News 12 was the first to break the story, noting human remains were found at an excavation project. What looks very much like SKELETAL REMAINS found at a construction home site in the Manasquan Shores section of Wall Township. M…

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by Cecilia Levine
Hampden-Silver Spring, PA
Police & Fire
Drunk Central PA Man Who Struck Dead Woman In Crosswalk Turns Himself In, Police Say Drunk Central PA Man Who Struck Dead Woman In Crosswalk Turns Himself In, Police Say
Drunk Central PA Man Who Struck Dead Woman In Crosswalk Turns Himself In, Police Say Over two months after Emily Compton was struck dead the man accused of hitting her has turned himself in, authorities announced on Thursday, Nov. 2. Douglas Lee Gibb, 64, of Carlisle turned himself over to authorities at Magisterial District Judge Birbeck's office on Oct. 30.  Emily C. Compton, 72, also of Carlisle, was two blocks from her home when Gibbs struck her in the crosswalk on Hanover Street at the intersection with East South Street at 12:36 p.m. on Aug. 29, police explained.  Officers with the Carlisle Fire Department and Cumberland Goodwill EMS helped Emily at the scene. She h…

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by Jillian Pikora
Poughkeepsie, NY
Police & Fire
Cold Case: Police Asking For Help, Clues In 2008 Hudson Valley Murder Cold Case: Police Asking For Help, Clues In 2008 Hudson Valley Murder
Cold Case: Police Asking For Help, Clues In 2008 Hudson Valley Murder Police in the Hudson Valley are asking the public for help solving a 15-year-old murder that has kept detectives digging for clues for years.  The murder of Dutchess County resident David Green took place in the city of Poughkeepsie on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008, inside an apartment on South Hamilton Street. The 42-year-old Green, known as "Dee Dee" to all, was found strangled to death after officers from the city of Poughkeepsie Police responded to a call for a deceased man inside an apartment, said Det. Lt. Matt Clark of the Poughkeepsie Police Department. David "Dee Dee" GreenCity of …

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by Kathy Reakes
Lancaster, PA
Police & Fire
Wife ID'd After Hunting Club Dismemberment In GA, Husband Arrested In PA Wife ID'd After Hunting Club Dismemberment In GA, Husband Arrested In PA
Wife ID'd After Hunting Club Dismemberment In GA, Husband Arrested In PA Mindi Mebane Kassotis has been identified months after she was found dismembered at a hunting club in Georgia, and her husband has been arrested in Pennsylvania, authorities announced on Friday, May 12, 2023.  The 40-year-old was found strewn across three miles of the hunting club grounds in  Liberty and Mcintosh Counties on December 2, 2022, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation explained in the release. The following day the investigation into her identity began and on Jan. 5, 2023, the GBI announced that forensic analysis determined that her body had been placed in the field sinc…

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by Jillian Pikora
Greenwich, CT
News
Greenwich Man Charged With Child Porn Offenses, Including Possessing Images With Infants Greenwich Man Charged With Child Porn Offenses, Including Possessing Images With Infants
Greenwich Man Charged With Child Porn Offenses, Including Possessing Images With Infants A Fairfield County man is facing charges after investigators found that his laptop contained about 1,000 images depicting the sexual abuse of children, including infants.  Christopher Bates Jr., age 36, of Greenwich, was arrested on a federal complaint charging him with child pornography offenses on Tuesday, Dec. 13, according to Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States attorney for the District of Connecticut. Investigators found that an IP address at Bates' home was being used to access the dark web to view images that depicted the sexual abuse of children, Roberts Avery reported. …

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by Nicole Valinote
Middletown, NJ
Police & Fire
Jersey Shore Man, 74, Found Guilty On Child Porn Charges: Prosecutor Jersey Shore Man, 74, Found Guilty On Child Porn Charges: Prosecutor
Jersey Shore Man, 74, Found Guilty On Child Porn Charges: Prosecutor A 74-year-old Jersey Shore man was found guilty by a Monmouth County Jury in connection with child pornography charges. During the trial, the man testified that his son, now deceased, had actually downloaded the child abuse files, authorities said. James Simmons, of Freehold Township, was convicted on Wednesday, July 20, of endangering the welfare of a child and distributing child sex abuse material, according to Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey. A July 2017 investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, along with NJ ICAC Task Force and th…

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by Jon Craig
Elkton, MD
Police & Fire
Maryland State Police Arrest Two Men On Child Porn Charges Maryland State Police Arrest Two Men On Child Porn Charges
Maryland State Police Arrest Two Men On Child Porn Charges Two child pornography suspects were taken into custody following a pair of separate investigations into the distribution and possession of illicit materials, state police announced. Cumberland residents Matthew Loren Sites, 23, and Roger Clayton Abe II, 38, were both arrested as a result of separate investigations conducted by the Maryland State Police / Maryland Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, officials announced on Friday, July 8. Specifically, Abe was charged with one out of the distribution of child pornography and seven counts of possession of child pornography. Sites was…

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by Zak Failla
Cherry Hill, NJ
News
Remains Found 40 Years Ago In Canada ID'd As NJ Murder Victim, Police Say Remains Found 40 Years Ago In Canada ID'd As NJ Murder Victim, Police Say
Remains Found 40 Years Ago In Canada ID'd As NJ Murder Victim, Police Say Remains found nearly 40 years ago in Canada have been identified as a New Jersey man, authorities announced. The remains of Theodore Frederick Kampf, 46 -- formerly of Camden County -- were found in a wooded area near the North Fork Dam and Dempster Highway in Yukon Territory in 1983, Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced. He had travelled from New Jersey to Yukon in July 1981, and his family reported him missing in October after he stopped contacting them. Despite an extensive investigation at the time by Yukon RCMP, the identity of the remains had never been identified. In 2…

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by Cecilia Levine
Armonk, NY
News
Stop & Shop Warns Customers Of Potential Data Security Issue In Fairfield County Stop & Shop Warns Customers Of Potential Data Security Issue In Fairfield County
Stop & Shop Warns Customers Of Potential Data Security Issue In Fairfield County Stop & Shop says it has discovered a potential data security issue at five store locations in the Northeast, including in Connecticut. Illegal skimming devices known as “shimmers” were identified as part of routine security scans at the locations.  The five stores and dates the issue was identified are als follows: 25 Old King’s Highway North in Darien, Connecticut, April 26 to April 30 404 Springfield Ave., Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Feb. 8 to Feb. 10 8 Franklin Street, Bloomfield, New Jersey: March 28 to April 9 1189 Broad Street, Clifton, New Jersey: March 14 to April 16 19…

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by Joe Lombardi