New Haven, Connecticutt
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of
Connecticut, announced that Joseph Calvin Laughner, 44, of Seymour,
formerly of Naugatuck, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty
today before United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport
to one count of possession of child pornography.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Laughner
used a peer-to-peer file sharing program to download images of child
pornography. On December 7, 2009, agents with the Connecticut Computer
Crimes Task Force, with the assistance of the Naugatuck Police
Department, conducted a search of Laughner’s residence and seized three
computers and computer-related items. Forensic analysis of the items
seized has revealed more than 300 images and 22 videos of children
engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Philadelphia, PA
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of
Pennsylvania announced that a 28-year-old Wilkes-Barre resident was
indicted today by a federal grand jury in Scranton for producing and
attempting to produce child pornography and for interstate extortion.
According to United States Attorney Peter J. Smith, the grand jury
alleges that Joseph J. Ostrowski, a football coach at Holy Redeemer High
School in Wilkes-Barre, persuaded and enticed, and attempted to
persuade and entice, a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for
the purpose of producing a visual depiction of such conduct.
Pittsburgh, PA
A resident of Allegheny County has been sentenced in federal court to
14 years in prison to be followed by 10 years’ supervised release, as
well as paying a $25,000 fine, on his conviction of attempted coercion
and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, United
States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
United States District Judge Terrence F. McVerry imposed the sentence on John A. Brownlee, III, 62.
According to information presented to the court, beginning on
November 1, 2010, and continuing thereafter until May 12, 2011, Brownlee
used facilities and means of interstate and foreign commerce,
specifically a computer, the Internet and the telephone, to knowingly
attempt to persuade, induce, entice, and coerce a minor to engage in
sexual activity.
Reno, NV
A Winnemucca man has been charged in two separate federal indictments
with shooting at six persons on the Ft. McDermitt Indian Reservation on
April 27, 2012, as well as sex trafficking of two victims, announced
Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
Adam Scott, 26, is charged in an indictment returned by the grand
jury on May 9, 2012 with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and
two counts of use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of
violence. In a second indictment returned the same day, Scott is charged
with one count of illegal transportation of a minor for prostitution
and two counts of sex trafficking of a minor or with force, fraud, or
coercion.
Philadelphia, PA
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of
Pennsylvania announced that a 34-year-old Moscow man was sentenced today
by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy to 11 years in
federal prison for using the Internet and a cell phone to attempt to
entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual conduct.
According to United States Attorney Peter J. Smith, John Swenski
previously admitted that he attempted to persuade and entice a minor to
meet him in Scranton for illicit sexual purposes. Federal agents
arrested Swenski in January 2010 when he arrived at a location for the
purpose of meeting with the minor child.
Oklahoma City, OK
Daniel Leslie Mooneyham, 33, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was
sentenced to 240 months in prison today by United States District Judge
Timothy D. DeGiusti for receipt of child pornography depicting a
15-year-old boy, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for
the Western District of Oklahoma.
According to court records, Mooneyham, using a fake Facebook profile,
pretended to be an attractive, 18-year-old blonde female named “Terri
Smith.” Posing as Terri Smith, Mooneyham would send Facebook “friend
requests” to teenage boys, some of whom he knew through a church youth
group and a youth camp where he volunteered. After establishing a
Facebook “friendship” with teenage boys while posing as Terri Smith,
Mooneyham would solicit pictures of the boys’ genitalia in exchange for
sexually explicit photos of Terri Smith. Mooneyham would direct the boys
to text or e-mail their nude pictures to a Yahoo! e-mail account that
he had created for his Terri Smith Facebook profile. Mooneyham received
nude pictures via e-mail from at least three minors and solicited
others. The pictures of Terri Smith that Mooneyham sent to the boys
depicted an unknown female that Mooneyham had found on the Internet.
During the investigation, Mooneyham, posing as Terri Smith, also
solicited a sexually explicit photo from an undercover FBI agent, who
was posing as a 15-year-old boy on Facebook.
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