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District Man Caught Watching Child Porn Online With Other Men Cops To Crime, Feds Say
A 42-year-old man will spend years behind bars after being busted playing child pornography videos in plain sight during a Homeland Security search in 2021, authorities announced.
Raymond Glover, 42, of Washington, DC, pleaded guilty this week to one count of receipt of child pornography after he was caught by officials amid an investigation into the sharing of illicit materials though an app.
According to court documents, on Sept. 21, 2021, agents searched Glover’s DC home, during which, a video depicting child porn was playing in plain sight on his laptop in the living room through an ap…
Fraudster Admits To Posing As Bail Bondsman As Part Of $800K Elder Fraud Scam In Virginia
Authorities announced that a 64-year-old man has admitted to his role in an $800,000 elder fraud scam where he targeted victims in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, and the surrounding regions.
Michael Odell Anderson, 64, of Crystal Beach, Florida, and Dun Lorring, Virginia, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, in relation to his participation in an elder fraud scam, the Department of Justice announced this week.
Between April 2020 and December 2020, officials said that Anderson conspired with others to persuade elderly victims to give them thousands of dollars u…
Virginia Contractor Charged Customers For Patios, Decks He Never Built: Reports
A contractor in Northern Virginia pled guilty to contractor fraud after he took money from customers and never built their decks and patios, multiple reports said.
Ryan Vanover, 40, delayed work for customers in Stafford, Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, and Fauquier counties, as he claimed his father was sick, InsideNova.com reported.
Though he did not complete the deck and patio projects, over two dozen homeowners paid down payments, Fauquier.com said.
Here are Vanover's charges and punishments in each Northern Virginia county, as listed detailed by InsideNOVA.com:
Fairfax County: V…
'If I Can't Have Her, No One Can', Arsonist Sentenced After Setting Ex's Home On Fire
"If I can't have her, nobody can, or at least no one in Baltimore," were the chilling words of a man who pleaded guilty to setting his ex's house on fire, authorities say.
Luther Moody Trent, 21, compared the volatile relationship to Romeo and Juliet, in an interview with an unspecified local news station where he claimed to have set the victim's home on fire back on May 21, 2021, according to the Department of Justice.
Trent admitted to pouring and igniting gasoline along the exterior of the home around 1:30 a.m. that spring morning while the victim and two others were inside.
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NJ Woman Who Pulled $400,000 GoFundMe Scam With Homeless Vet, Ex-BF Gets Federal Prison Time
UPDATE: A New Jersey woman who helped pull a scam that conned 14,000 GoFundMe donors across the country out of $400,000 to purportedly benefit a homeless veteran is headed to federal prison.
Katelyn McClure, 32, of Bordentown got a far lighter sentence under the terms of her plea deal with the government than did her former boyfriend, Mark D’Amico, who concocted the cruel scheme.
McClure was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Camden on Thursday to a plea-bargained year and a day in a federal penitentiary. D’Amico, the "mastermind," earlier this year got 27 months in a fed pen in exchange …
