Crime

Florida Church Deacon Guilty Of Producing Child Porn

From the Justice Department: Jonathan High, 30, of Steinhatchee, Florida, has been convicted of two counts of use of a child to produce child pornography. The guilty verdict, returned yesterday, at the conclusion of a one-day bench trial, was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. Prior to the trial, High pleaded guilty …

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Youth Pastor Sentenced To 4 To 17 Years For Child Rape

Penn Live reports: A Lititz man who has worked as a youth pastor will spend at least four and a half years but up to 17 years in state prison, a Lancaster County judge ruled Monday. 55-year-old Shane E. Richardson was convicted of aggravated indecent assault of a person younger than 16, corruption of minors, unlawful contact with a minor …

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DOJ Charges 11 With Blockading TN Abortion Clinic

From the Justice Department: A federal indictment unsealed today charges 11 individuals with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, Calvin Zastrow, Coleman Boyd, Caroline Davis, Paul Vaughn, Dennis Green, Eva Edl, Eva Zastrow, James Zastrow and Paul Place were indicted for federal offenses in connection with an alleged reproductive health care …

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AL Pastor Arrested On Multiple Child Rape Charges

Mobile’s Fox affiliate reports: A former Citronelle pastor was back behind bars Tuesday night after he was indicted on child sex abuse charges. Investigators said Gregory Adams, 64, lured young women in his churches and sexually abused them, dating back decades ago. Adams was indicted on three counts of sodomy, two counts of sexual abuse, and three counts of rape. …

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Josh Duggar Files New Appeal Blaming Coworker

The New York Post reports: Josh Duggar is blaming his former co-worker for his crimes in a new appeal filed in his child pornography case. The disgraced “19 Kids and Counting” star filed the appeal in an Arkansas court Monday, claiming that government agents failed to interview or investigate Caleb Williams, who “regularly used the only [computer] that had child …

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PA Man Charged With Felony Assault On Capitol Police

Law & Crime reports: An accused U.S. Capitol rioter dubbed with the hashtag #JackTheTripper by online sleuths for allegedly attacking police with a bike rack now faces felony charges of assaulting law enforcement and civil disorder. Prosecutors allege that 32-year-old Pennsylvania resident Mikhail Edward Slye is the man given the double-entendre nickname by the group Sedition Hunters, a crowdsourced effort …

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TN Youth Pastor Hit With More Child Sex Charges

The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports: A former youth pastor at Bellevue Baptist Church in Shelby County has been charged with multiple counts of sexual assault in the first and second-degrees by prosecutors in Benton County, Arkansas. The new charges come a month after he was arrested on a charge of sexual indecency with a child in August. The charges filed …

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Illinois Baptist Pastor Pleads Guilty To Felony Grooming

Decatur’s NBC affiliate reports: A former church pastor accepted a plea agreement in court on Friday, pleading guilty to Count II Grooming, a Class 4 felony. Joseph Krol, 38, is accused of sending sexually inappropriate Snapchat messages to a 15-year-old minor from Oreana. A sworn affidavit said Krol asked the child to take part in a “true online confessions game” …

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Guilty Plea In Grindr Kidnapping And Murder Attempt

From the Justice Department: Chance Seneca, 21, of Lafayette, Louisiana, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Robert Summerhays to one count of kidnapping. According to his plea agreement, Seneca admitted that on June 20, 2020, he used Grindr, a dating application for gay and bisexual men, to kidnap and attempt to murder H.W., a gay man. Specifically, Seneca acknowledged …

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Ex-Charlie Kirk Staffer Gets Five Years For Child Porn

TYT reports: A former Commerce Department official in the Trump administration was sentenced to a five-and-a-half year prison term after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography, federal prosecutors announced last week in a court filing. Under the terms of his plea deal, Adam Hageman was also sentenced to five years of parole after release and a mandatory requirement to …

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TX Baptist Pastor Sentenced To Ten Years For Child Rape

Houston’s Fox affiliate reports: Authorities in Fort Bend County said a former pastor will be spending the next 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting a child. The District Attorney’s announced in a press release that William Benjamin Woodward, 62, pled guilty to the charge of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child in June 2022. Woodward previously served as pastor …

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Bill Cosby Denied New Trial In Playboy Mansion Case

NBC News reports: A judge has denied a new trial for Bill Cosby in a Riverside County woman’s lawsuit, in which a jury found that the comedian sexually abused her when she was a teenager at the Playboy Mansion in the 1970s and awarded her $500,000 in damages. “(Cosby) has failed to establish he received an unfair trial or that …

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Arrests Made In Heist Of Bling Bishop’s $1M In Jewelry

The New York Times reports: Two men have been arrested in the July robbery of a Brooklyn pastor, who had what the police said was more than $1 million in jewelry taken from him at gunpoint during a sermon that was caught on a livestream video, prosecutors in Brooklyn said Wednesday. Juwan Anderson, 23, and Say-Quan Pollack, also 23, face …

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Corey Lewandowski Cuts Deal In 2021 Groping Incident

Politico reports: Former senior Donald Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski has cut a deal with Las Vegas prosecutors after he was charged with misdemeanor battery, stemming from allegations of unwanted sexual advances toward a woman during a charity dinner in Sept. 2021. The charge came nearly a year after Trashelle Odom accused Lewandowski of repeatedly touching her, including on her leg …

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California Incel Charged With Multiple Hate Crimes

Law & Crime reports: A 25-year-old California man who police say posted videos online showing him assaulting women has been arrested on hate crime charges related to the self-described involuntary celibacy that investigators believe motivated the attacks. Johnny Deven Young had been wanted since May after police in Costa Mesa identified him as the man who’d pepper sprayed several women …

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Anti-Abortion Activist Pleads Not Guilty To Assault

Fox News reports: Catholic pro-life activist Mark Houck pleaded not guilty to federal charges on Tuesday after the FBI arrested him at his home in rural Pennsylvania last week in connection to an alleged altercation with an abortion escort outside an abortion clinic in October 2021. Houck has been accused of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) …

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Cops: CA Man Plotted “Las Vegas-Style” Mass Shooting

Via press release from the city of Chico, California: The Chico Police Department recently received information that DALLAS MARSH (37) was making criminal threats to kill specific individuals, specified law enforcement officers, and was preparing to commit a “Las Vegas style” mass shooting with a specified deadline. Detectives with the Chico Police Department’s Violence Suppression Unit (VSU) obtained evidence of …

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Man Charged With Assaulting Abortion Clinic Escort

Law & Crime reports: A Catholic pro-life activist has been indicted for allegedly assaulting a “reproductive health care clinic escort in Philadelphia,” the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday. Mark Houck, 48, of Kintnersville, Pennsylvania, “is alleged to have twice assaulted a man because he was a volunteer reproductive health clinic escort.” Houck is listed as the co-founder and …

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Vandals Smash Windows At Gainesville Pride Center

Gainesville’s ABC affiliate reports: On Saturday morning, members of the Pride Community Center in Gainesville received a call from a real estate office in the same complex about their building being vandalized. “She told me that she was just informed by somebody that came to her office that the pride center had been vandalized and that the windows were all …

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Avenatti Ordered To Pay $148K To Stormy Daniels

Reuters reports: Michael Avenatti, the brash celebrity lawyer who rose to fame taking on Donald Trump before a slew of criminal charges destroyed his legal career, was ordered on Friday to pay $148,750 in restitution to his best-known client, porn actress Stormy Daniels. Avenatti, 51, was convicted by a Manhattan federal jury in February of wire fraud and aggravated identity …

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