Los Angeles, CA
An Inland Empire man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to
making
child pornography after he filmed his
sexual conduct with a
13-year-old boy who lived near his residence, prosecutors said.
Pedro Ruiz, 33, who
police say also goes by the name Peter, entered
his plea to one count of production of
child pornography, which carries a
minimum penalty of 15 years in federal prison.
As part of the plea agreement, Ruiz admitted to producing
sexually
explicit videos and
images of a 13-year-old boy, who lived a few houses
away, in 2009.
Boston, MA
A Framingham man will serve over 5 years in prison after pleading
guilty to possession of
child pornography and five counts of threatening
to injure the reputation of another, according to US Attorney Carmen M.
Ortiz's office.
Joshua M. Pizette, 23, was sentenced in Boston federal court last
week to 65 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised
release, according to the
US Attorney's office.
According to the US Attorney's office, Pizette attempted to
blackmail
a young Massachusetts woman to provide him with
nude photographs.
Pizette, who knew the young woman and her family, anonymously contacted
her by
email and
threatened to place embarrassing information about her
on the
Internet if she did not send him
nude photos.
Carteret, NJ
He's been an educator in the Carteret
school system for 21 years,
working as a middle-school history
teacher in the 1990s and even
creating live American Civil War re-enactments on a field near Carteret
Avenue for groups of rapt seventh graders.
More recently,
Nicholas G. Sysock has served as a
Carteret High
School vice principal, a post that paid him $126,204 in 2011, according
to public records.
Today, the 53-year-old man sat quietly behind a defense table in a
Newark courtroom, his hands cuffed in front of him, his lips clenched,
as he faced a charge of possession of
child pornography that, upon
conviction, would carry a maximum punishment of 10 years in prison.
During the morning hours, authorities said, the Rahway resident was
picked up by
federal agents who rifled through his home searching,
warrant in hand, for evidence of
child pornography.
Cincinnati, OH
A Cincinnati man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison on federal
child pornography charges.
Undercover
officers said they made contact with Ross, who went by the name
"Olderswohioguy," on a
peer-to-peer file-sharing network in September
2011.
They
said Ross shared folders that contained
images and
videos depicting
children between the ages of 4 and 13, some of them bound, being
raped
or
sodomized by adult men.
Boise
detectives helped bust an Illinois man who recently
pleaded guilty to
child pornography charges,
police announced Tuesday.
Andrew Gerald Millas, 43, faces 15 to 30 years in prison when he's sentenced in U.S. District Court in Illinois Jan. 14.
Millas was arrested after
Detectives Jason Pietzak and Timothy Brady
of the Boise
Police Department received
child pornography from Millas
over the
Internet while conducting an
undercover investigation on
suspected
illegal porn websites beginning in December 2011.
Millas
described
sexual contact with
children in
online chats with the
detectives and broadcasted a live
sex act with a
minor to them via a
web
camera. They contacted
police in Illinois, who searched the home and
arrested Millas.
Rochester, NY
A Rochester man was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison for possessing
child pornography.
Robert Vogler, 31, was also sentenced to 20 years of post-release supervision by U. S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer.
The
conviction came from an execution of a
search warrant at a residence
Vogler shared with co-defendant,
Donald MacIntyre, by the FBI’s Cyber
Task Force, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Marisa J. Miller who
handled the case. Law enforcement agents found
stills and
videos of
child pornography on several
devices that Vogler admitted to
downloading
using a
peer-to-peer file sharing program.
A four-month police investigation involving child pornography ended
with the arrest of a 51-year-old St. Charles man Monday, according to
police.
Gary L. Harris, of 1809 Howard
St., was charged with four counts of aggravated
child pornography and
possession of marijuana and cocaine with intent to manufacture or
deliver,
police said.
Union City, NJ
A Union City woman studying to be a Hudson County
corrections officer
has been arrested on charges she allowed her young daughters to live in
a home where her 75-year-old father allegedly had
child pornography
hanging on the walls “throughout the apartment,” authorities said.
The woman, 31, of Palisade Avenue near 48th Street, is charged with
two counts of
child abuse for allowing her
children, 6 and 8, to reside
in her father’s apartment, where numerous
photos of
nude and
partially
nude females were on display, the criminal complaint says.
She is also charged with allowing her
children to live in an
apartment that was “in disrepair and unsanitary for a
child to reside,”
the complaint says. Finally, she is charged with two counts of
neglect,
the complaint says.
Falmouth, MA
A Falmouth man has been charged with the possession and distribution of
child pornography.
Police
said
Peter Canavin, 38, was taken into custody on Wednesday after
authorities executed a
search warrant at his Falmouth home. Among the
several items seized from Canavin’s home were
computers containing
child
pornography,
police said.
Berry, KY
A Harrison County man was arrested on
child pornography charges after a two-year
investigation.
Allen
L. Moredock, 26, was charged with 20 counts of possession of matter
portraying a
sexual performance by a
minor,
state police said Wednesday
in a news release.
An
Internet Crimes Against Children investigation started when
Moredock began chatting with a person
online who he thought was a
14-year-old girl, the news release said. The "girl" was an
undercover
detective in Florida.
The news release said Moredock sent the
detective child pornography and talked about having
sexual contact with a
child.
College Station, TX
A man who has worked with
at-risk children for years is now behind bars, facing four counts of
child pornography possession.
John Mason, 53, was employed with Montgomery County Youth
Services.
Police said the charges against him are alarming, and
investigators are looking into what type of contact he had with kids.
Mason’s arrest comes after a two-year long national
investigation conducted by the
U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
On Thursday, authorities asked Conroe
police to get
involved.
Investigators raided Mason’s second-story unit at the
Treehouse Apartments on Wilson Road.
Police said
evidence was taken from the apartment, but they would not elaborate on exactly what
investigators found.
Denham Spring, LA
A man, who was on probation, was arrested Wednesday on 100 counts of
child pornography charges.
Louisiana
Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced that
Marvin Thorton, 49, was
arrested in a joint
investigation with his office and local authorities.
Thorton's bond was set at $10 million on 100 counts of possessing
pornography involving
juveniles.
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