Fairfield County Man Faces Child Porn Charge, Police Say Fairfield County Man Faces Child Porn Charge, Police Say
Fairfield County Man Faces Child Porn Charge, Police Say This story has been updated. A Fairfield County man has been arrested nearly a year-and-half after a search warrant of his home turned up child pornography on electronic devices. Thomas Finn, age 55, of Norwalk, was arrested on Monday, Jan. 24, in connection with the case that began in January of 2020 in Norwalk. In January of 2020, the Special Victims Unit was contacted by the US Department of Homeland Security regarding an intercept of suspected child pornography on the messaging application “Kik," said Lt. Terrence Blake of the Norwalk Police. Homeland Security agents advised Norw…
CNN Producer Charged With Enticing Minors Into Sexual Activity, Feds Say CNN Producer Charged With Enticing Minors Into Sexual Activity, Feds Say
CNN Producer Charged With Enticing Minors Into Sexual Activity, Feds Say A Connecticut man who was a producer at CNN headquarters in New York City has been charged with sexually abusing underage girls. The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced on Friday, Dec. 10 that Fairfield County resident John Griffin, 44, of Stamford, was arrested by the FBI after a federal grand jury in Vermont charged Griffin with three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity.  According to the indictment: From April to July of 2020, Griffin utilized the messaging applic…
Bergen Retail Clerk Had Sexual Convos With Kids, 800 Child Porn Files: Prosecutor Bergen Retail Clerk Had Sexual Convos With Kids, 800 Child Porn Files: Prosecutor
Bergen Retail Clerk Had Sexual Convos With Kids, 800 Child Porn Files: Prosecutor A 22-year-old retail clerk from Mahwah who had sexually explicit conversation with children online was found being with nearly 800 child pornography files, authorities said. Quinn T. Dickson was arrested on Nov. 3 in Paramus on charges of child endangerment and child pornography, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. His arrest is the result of an investigation conducted under by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office under the direction of Chief Jason Love. A search warrant executed at Dickon's Mahwah home following a months-long investigation found that Dickson downloaded, …
CT Man Sentenced For Attempting To Engage In Sex With Minor CT Man Sentenced For Attempting To Engage In Sex With Minor
CT Man Sentenced For Attempting To Engage In Sex With Minor A 39-year-old man will spend a decade behind bars after being sentenced for attempting to coerce a teen in Connecticut he sought to have sex with and impregnate, authorities announced. New London County resident William Meier, of Norwich, was sentenced on Tuesday, Oct. 19 to 120 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for attempting to engage in sexual activity with a minor by using sexual media. Acting US Attorney Leonard C. Boyle said that in May 2020, Meier accessed a chatroom dedicated to teens on the Kik social messaging app and began chatting with an undercover …
Former Musical Director On Long Island Sentenced For Receiving Child Porn Former Musical Director On Long Island Sentenced For Receiving Child Porn
Former Musical Director On Long Island Sentenced For Receiving Child Porn A former choir director on Long Island will spend years behind bars after admitting to possessing and exchanging child pornography over the Internet. Michael Wustrow, age 59, of Freeport, a former musical director at St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre, has been sentenced to 72 months in prison after pleading guilty in June 2019 to receiving child pornography. The charge had carried a maximum potential sentence of 20 years in prison. In addition to the prison term, Wustrow will also register as a sexual offender upon his release. Acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of New Yor…
Connecticut Man Charged With Multiple Child Exploitation Offenses Connecticut Man Charged With Multiple Child Exploitation Offenses
Connecticut Man Charged With Multiple Child Exploitation Offenses A Connecticut man has been charged by federal authorities with multiple child exploitation offenses. Hartford County resident Michael Ferro, age 35, of Avon, surrendered to law enforcement on Wednesday, Sept. 29, according to Leonard C Boyle, US Attorney for the District of Connecticut. As alleged in the complaint, on Wednesday, August 18, Ferro, using the Kik social media application, began chatting in a Kik group with an FBI covert agent who was posing as a father of a 12-year-old girl.  After Ferro determined that the fictitious father was engaged in sexual activity with his “…
Fairfield County Man Accused Of Engaging In Sex Acts With Child He Drove To Meet In Illinois Fairfield County Man Accused Of Engaging In Sex Acts With Child He Drove To Meet In Illinois
Fairfield County Man Accused Of Engaging In Sex Acts With Child He Drove To Meet In Illinois A man from the area is facing multiple child exploitation charges in connection to an incident involving a 14-year-old girl who he transported across the country to his Fairfield County home. Danbury resident Wayne Marcell, age 35, has been accused of paying $2,000 to have the teenage victim transported from Lubbock, Texas, to Illinois, where he allegedly drove her back to his Fairfield County home and abused her. US Attorney Leonard Boyle said that in April 2021, a 14-year-old girl in Georgia met Robert Fyke, age 33, of Lubbock, on an online video/chat platform. Fyke and the teen then…
PA Firefighter, Solider, Prison Guard Messaged 11-Year-Old Girls On Kik App, Authorities Say PA Firefighter, Solider, Prison Guard Messaged 11-Year-Old Girls On Kik App, Authorities Say
PA Firefighter, Solider, Prison Guard Messaged 11-Year-Old Girls On Kik App, Authorities Say In the days since a local firefighters arrest, more details have emerged about the circumstance that led to his arrest for child pornography dissemination. Robert Joseph Romberger, 26, of Elizabethville, was arrested on Friday for sharing nine videos of child pornography on March 5, as Daily Voice previously reported. Romberger supposedly sent videos through the Kik messenger app to girls between the ages of 11 and 16, asking to have sex with him or watch them perform sex acts on other men, according to an affidavit of probable cause. Romberger was an active public servant who worked as …
Bucks County Man Shared Child Porn Via Online Messaging App, DA Says Bucks County Man Shared Child Porn Via Online Messaging App, DA Says
Bucks County Man Shared Child Porn Via Online Messaging App, DA Says A 21-year-old Bucks County man was arrested for sharing child porn over an online messaging app, authorities said. Brendon Vladimir Lauff, of Bristol Township, possessed and shared numerous images and videos of child porn between Jan. 30 and Feb. 15, the Bucks County DA's Office said. An investigation was launched March 16, after authorities received a cybertip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a Kik user uploaded several files to the server, the DA's office said. A subpoena was served on the internet service provided and traced to a Bristol Township home whe…
Kik App, Tips Off State Police Leading To Child Porn Charges For Cumberland County Teen Kik App, Tips Off State Police Leading To Child Porn Charges For Cumberland County Teen
Kik App, Tips Off State Police Leading To Child Porn Charges For Cumberland County Teen A Camp Hill teen has been charged for sending and receiving child pornography through a social media application, according to Pennsylvania State Police. Marko Pezer, 19, was arrested by state police following a search warrant of his 100 South 18th Street home on June 11. The warrant was issued following a report made to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children by the social media platform Kik. Kik told the center that "it was apparent child pornography was sent by a user," according to the PSP report. Pezer has been charged with the following: F2 Child Pornography F3 Ch…
CHARGED! Brothers Collecting Child Porn On Cellphones Arrested In Lancaster County CHARGED! Brothers Collecting Child Porn On Cellphones Arrested In Lancaster County
Charged! Brothers Collecting Child Porn On Cellphones Arrested In Lancaster County Two brothers in Lancaster County have been charged with multiple felonies after police found child pornography on their cellphones, according to a Pennsylvania State police report. William Charl Staffieri, 25, and Brian Timothy Staffieri, 24, both of the 700 block of River Hill Road in Conestoga, have been arrested and charged for images and videos during a search warrant on May 20, say state police. Officials learned the men might have been collecting the pornographic images via a cyber tip received in Nov. 2020. Investigators found child pornography uploaded from Kik accounts, a social …
Sexual Images Found On Big Spring HS Student's Laptop, State Police Say Sexual Images Found On Big Spring HS Student's Laptop, State Police Say
Sexual Images Found On Big Spring HS Student's Laptop, State Police Say Big Spring High School officials called police to investigate sexual images found on a laptop, according to Pennsylvania State Police. PSP were called to the Newville area school for a report of “sexually explicit images found on a school laptop used by a student,” at 2 p.m on April 22 as stated in a release by police. The school was at the center of another sexual images investigation in 2015 for a student sexting ring, leading to 20 to 25 mobile devices being seized from students, according to police. The sexting investigation at Big Spring High School only closed due to difficulty gain…