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Virginia Child Exploitation Investigation Takes Unexpected Turn Upon SWAT Team's Discovery: PD Virginia Child Exploitation Investigation Takes Unexpected Turn Upon SWAT Team's Discovery: PD
Virginia Child Exploitation Investigation Takes Unexpected Turn Upon SWAT Team's Discovery: PD What started as an investigation into a man having sexually explicit conversations online led to the seizure of an illegal machine gun in Virginia, police said. Craig Strasbourger, 31, of Vienna, became the center of an investigation following a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Fairfax County police said.  He was believed to have been "engaging in sexual communication" with a child from Kentucky, police said. Through their investigation, detectives determined Strasbourger lived in the 2100 block of Robin Way Court in Vienna.  A SWAT team searc…

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by Cecilia Levine
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DC, VA Pimp Gets Decades In Federal Prison For Exploiting Women DC, VA Pimp Gets Decades In Federal Prison For Exploiting Women
DC, VA Pimp Gets Decades In Federal Prison For Exploiting Women A Virginia man who pimped out women in the region to line his own pockets with cash will spend decades in prison for running a sex trafficking operation, federal authorities announced. Norfolk resident Michael Jabaar Wilkins, 39, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on a federal conviction for his role in exploiting at least three women in Northwest DC for his own financial gain for most of the 2010s. According to federal prosecutors, between 2011 and 2019, Wilkins induced and coerced at least three women to travel from Virginia to DC to engage in sex acts, for which he was paid after h…

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by Zak Failla
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Parole, Probation Officer From Delaware Admits To Downloading Child Porn In Pennsylvania: DA Parole, Probation Officer From Delaware Admits To Downloading Child Porn In Pennsylvania: DA
Parole, Probation Officer From Delaware Admits To Downloading Child Porn In Pennsylvania: DA A Lancaster County Probation and Parole officer was arrested on child pornography-related charges on Friday, Oct. 28, the County District Attorney's office announced on Monday, Oct. 31.  Deric Paul Lilly, 45, previously of the 300 block of W. Charlotte Street in Manor Township, but now living in Delaware, was charged with four felony counts of possessing child pornography and two felony counts of criminal use of a communication facility.  Detectives in Lancaster County had received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding an account that was used…

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by Jillian Pikora
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'Human Body Parts' Purchased On Facebook By Pennsylvania Man Police Say 'Human Body Parts' Purchased On Facebook By Pennsylvania Man Police Say
'Human Body Parts' Purchased On Facebook By Pennsylvania Man Police Say A 40-year-old man purchased human body parts from a woman in Arkansas using Facebook, police in Pennsylvania say.  Jeremy Pauley has been under investigation by local police and the FBI since the East Pennsboro Township police first received a call of "suspicious activity" in the 200 block of North Enola Road around 7 a.m. on June 14, according to a release by the department.  The local police worked with the FBI Harrisburg, FBI Scranton, FBI Arkansas, Arkansas State Police, Cumberland County Coroners office, Cumberland County Forensics Division, Bloomsburg Police Department,…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Fairfax Man Sentenced For Selling Meth On Darkweb: DOJ Fairfax Man Sentenced For Selling Meth On Darkweb: DOJ
Fairfax Man Sentenced For Selling Meth On Darkweb: DOJ A Virginia man was sentenced to 52 months in prison for his schemes to sell meth on the Darknet, officials reported. Tyler Pham, 39, of Fairfax, was charged after distributing between 15 and 45 kilograms of meth pills from May 2019 through December 2019, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Pham, who was turned over to the US by Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security, advertised the pills as peach-flavored Adderall under the online alias, “addy4cheap”, authorities said. Law enforcement agents investigating Pham bought 20 controlled purchases of 767 peach tablets from “addy4cheap” on two diff…

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by AJ Goldbloom
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Sterling Man, 31, Faces Multiple Child Porn Charges: Police Sterling Man, 31, Faces Multiple Child Porn Charges: Police
Sterling Man, 31, Faces Multiple Child Porn Charges: Police A 31-year-old Loudoun County man tricked people into sending him nude photos of themselves and then extorted them afterward, authorities said.  A grand jury indicted Shane L. Pearson of Sterling this week following a lengthy investigation, the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said. According to a report, two people said they sent nude photos of themselves to an unknown person they met on an app. That person was Pearson, who demanded they send more nude photos, money, or sexual favors, or he would put their photos online, the Sheriff's Offices said.  Detectives said some of the vict…

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by Josh Lanier