WICHITA FALLS The president of Patterson Auto Group has been arrested on warrants from the Texas Rangers for human trafficking and indecency with a child.
Anthony Ryan Patterson was arrested on Feb. 3 for charges tied to co-defendant Jandreani Bell, according to the district attorney’s office.
Bell was arrested on Monday, Jan. 25, and charged with attempted trafficking of a person and two counts of trafficking of a person.
Her bond was set at $150,000.
According to officials with the Wichita County District Attorney’s Office, this is the second arrest in a multi-year, multi-agency human trafficking investigation.
The list of agencies involved in this investigation are as follows:
The Texas Rangers
The FBI
The Wichita Falls Police Department
Investigators from the Wichita County District Attorney’s Office
The Texas Attorney General’s Office
Officials also said the district attorney’s office has formally requested assistance from the Human Trafficking Division of the Texas Attorney General’s Office.
If anyone has any information about this case, the district attorney’s office urges they call the Texas Rangers at 940-766-8100 ext. 8692.
The discovery of mail stolen from some Arizona, Louisiana and Texas residents and businesses about eight months ago spurred what authorities say has turned into a disturbing investigation into the internet’s dark web.
Now a Louisiana man faces hundreds of charges of child pornography and a handful of charges of sexual abuse of animals, not to mention multiple charges of mail theft and identity theft.
Christopher Aaron Stanfield, 33, of Natchitoches, remains in Natchitoches Parish Detention Center, where he was booked the evening of Oct. 6, booking records show.
Authorities announced Wednesday that numerous more charges have been filed against him.
MAY 2020
The inquiry began with a traffic stop about 10 a.m. May 28 in Rapides Parish. Booking records show sheriff’s deputies arrested Stanfield on nine charges, including one count each of:
simple burglary,
theft,
illegal possession of stolen things,
illegal possession of stolen firearms,
possession of a firearm by a convicted felon,
criminal trespass,
possession of a Schedule IV Controlled Dangerous Substance (CDS),
possession of a Schedule I CDS, and,
having an expired motor vehicle inspection sticker.
A search of his vehicle also uncovered a duffle bag containing several pieces of mail belonging to 30 households and businesses in Natchitoches Parish, the Sheriff’s Office there reports. Some of the mail contained personal and business checks, credit card numbers, bank statements and “other private information commonly used in identity theft schemes,” Natchitoches authorities say.
But the stolen mail impacted people well beyond Natchitoches Parish. Also in the duffle bag was mail belonging to residents and businesses in Arizona, Texas and the central Louisiana parish of Rapides.
JUNE 2020
Stanfield was released on bond the evening of June 1 pending the ongoing investigation in Rapides Parish, booking records show.
Also in early June, Rapides sheriff’s detectives again contacted their counterparts in Natchitoches Parish, this time to report that they also had seized a package from Stanfield’s vehicle that contained eyeglass frames and sunglasses. Further investigation revealed that package had been reported as stolen May 27 from a residential mailbox on Louisiana Highway 1, Natchitoches Parish authorities report.
Natchitoches Parish detectives and representatives of several other law enforcement agencies subsequently met in Rapides Parish to share what their separate but related investigations had uncovered.
OCTOBER 2020
Natchitoches Parish authorities ultimately got warrants to arrest Stanfield on 30 counts of mail theft and 11 counts of identity theft in their jurisdiction. They caught up with him Oct. 6 at Riverview Inn Apartments in Natchitoches.
Detectives and narcotics agents seized electronic equipment, suspected narcotics and drug paraphernalia when they searched Stanfield’s apartment at the time of his arrest, authorities report.
Stanfield has remained in Natchitoches Parish Detention Center since he was booked into the lockup that evening on drug charges as well as the 41 counts of theft.
JANUARY 2021
Meantime, authorities report, detectives discovered what appeared to be pornography involving juveniles on the electronic device they confiscated Oct. 6 from Stanfield’s apartment.
Stanfield reportedly told detectives during a brief interview that he had been active on the dark web since January 2020.
“The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets — overlay networks that use the internet but require specific software, configurations or authorization to access,” according to a Facebook post by the Natchitoches Sheriff’s Office. “Through the dark web, private straphanger networks can communicate and conduct business anonymously without divulging identifying information, such as a user’s location.”
The volume of evidence prompted detectives to ask for help from the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations and the Bossier City marshal’s Northwest Louisiana Crimes Against Children task force unit.
On Jan. 25, Louisiana State Police investigators reported to Natchitoches that they had found the following on the seized equipment:
513 pornographic images involving children under the age of 12,
6 pornographic videos involving children under the age of 12,
4 images of sexual acts involving animals, and,
1 video of sexual acts involving animals.
That resulted in hundreds more charges being filed against Stanfield, including:
519 counts of pornography involving juveniles,
5 counts of sexual abuse of animals, and,
1 count of possession of child pornography with intent to distribute.
His bonds on the Natchitoches Parish charges total $884,000.
Results of the ongoing investigation will be presented to the Natchitoches Parish district attorney’s office for review and prosecution, authorities say.
Three people, including two Kingwood-area residents, have been arrested following the discovery of a missing 15-year-old girl from the Houston area.
According to law enforcement officials, the teen was a victim of sex trafficking. She was found in the small town of Bunkie, Louisiana, located just southeast of Alexandria. Police said an officer from the Bunkie Police Department was conducting a traffic stop when the teen was found in the car.
Investigators said the teen was being sexually exploited and was being transported for the purposes of human trafficking from the Houston area.
The investigation led to the arrest of 24-year old Terry Williams and 25-year old Infiniti Williams of Kingwood along with 21-year old Areona Adroin from Alexandria.
The case has now added another victim to a growing statistic in the state of Texas. Data shows there are at least 79,000 minors who are victims of sex trafficking. There are currently an estimated 313,000 victims of human trafficking in Texas, according to trafficking rescue groups.
Studies also show minor and youth trafficking costs the state at least $6.6 billion a year. All three suspects were charged with human trafficking and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.
WAYNESBORO – Authorities in Waynesboro have charged a man who was reportedly found with hundreds of images of child pornography, according to a press release.
The Waynesboro Police Department said it recently received a complaint from the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) about a computer user who was allegedly uploading and downloading child porn in the city.
After receiving the complaint, the Waynesboro Police Department Investigations Division began looking into the activities of Mark H. Hopper, 41, of Waynesboro, the release said.
After obtaining a search warrant for Hopper’s residence, police reportedly seized several pieces of electronic equipment. Following a forensic analysis of the devices, hundreds of images of child pornography were found, according to the press release.
On Wednesday, 26 warrants for child pornography possession and one warrant for child porn distribution were issued against Hopper. However, the press release said Hopper fled the area to Missouri following the search of his home.
Police said he was located in Missouri and is currently in the process of being extradited back to Virginia.
Riverside County law enforcement made 64 arrests over the course of four days during an anti-human trafficking operation, authorities announced Tuesday.
The arrests were part of Operation Reclaim and Rebuild, an annual effort by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies to combat sexual slavery and human trafficking in California. The statewide operation seeks to rescue victims and apprehend their captors, according to a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department news release.
Last year, 518 people were arrested while 87 victims, including 11 children, were recovered during the effort.
This year’s operation in Riverside County spanned four consecutive days, concluding on Jan. 28, according to a Sheriff’s Department news release. It involved the county’s Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force along with the Palm Desert, La Quinta, Lake Elsinore and Temecula special enforcement teams, and the Riverside and Murrieta police departments.
The county’s operation primarily targeted online prostitution.
Anti-human trafficking task force members had placed decoy advertisements in the classified sections of websites commonly used to solicit prostitution. The task force responded to those who replied to the ads and then made the arrests when the subjects showed up at the predetermined meeting location, according to the release.
At the same time, task force members separately negotiated agreed upon acts of prostitution based on other online regional escort advertisements. In those instances, women were directed to meet the undercover task force members posing as customers. They were then interviewed, and those who were not found to be human trafficking victims were also arrested, authorities explained.
Overall, 64 people were arrested, almost all of them on suspicion of soliciting prostitution. Two women believed to be victims of sex trafficking were rescued, officials said.
The arrestees were booked and released upon a written promise to show up to their court appearances, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
Authorities arrested Issac Mciver, 26, of Lakewood (Not Pictured) on suspicion of soliciting a minor for lewd purposes and Corey Wiggins, 20, of Moreno Valley on suspicion of supervising/aiding a person to commit prostitution.
The following were arrested during the operation on suspicion of soliciting prostitution:
Audon Aguilera-Cortez, 26, of Riverside (Not Pictured)
Ian Alexander, 51, of Long Beach
Gabriel Alvarez, 28, of Coachella
Ethan Andrews, 29, of Menifee
Daniel Arriaga-Diaz, 27, of Ontario (Not Pictured)
Douglas Ayala, 43, of Twentynine Palms
Matthew Babb, 26, of Bishop (Not Pictured)
Monte Bertoldo, 53, of Palm Springs
Kivanc Bilgin, 36, of Murrieta
Scott Borel, 42, of Murrieta
Anousack Bounyadeth, 47, of Menifee
Rutilio Brito, 33, of La Quinta
Eduardo Calderon, 32, of Los Angeles
Sergio Castaneda, 37, of San Bernardino
Wilson Chen, 33, of Lake Elsinore
Dak Chim, 37, of Rosemead
Rodolfo Cortez, 37, of Riverside
Anthony Dagnenica, 52, of Menifee
Andrew Diaz, 23, of Lake Elsinore
Michael Eder, 45, of Murrieta
Margarito Escobar-Orozco, 34, of Lake Elsinore
Bryan Gaboury, 45, of Chino
Armando Gatewood, 32, of Murrieta
Anthony Gonzales, 43, of Chino
John Hald, 50, of Hesperia
Donovan Heard, 42, of Huntington Park (Not Pictured)
Stefan Hyatt, 34, of Apple Valley
Robert Johnson, 72, of Winchester
Nathan Keys, 23, of Bellflower (Not Pictured)
Gari Leal-Vallejo, 35, of Menifee
Alberto Leon-Lopez, 26, of Vista
Florencio Lopez, 50, of Thermal
Randall Lopez, 65, of Azusa
Roberto Lopez, 47, of Bermuda Dunes
Rodrigo Macias-Leal, 21, of Cathedral City
Quincey Morton, 41, of Los Angeles
Hai Nguyen, 50, of Mission Viejo
Wesley Orta-Marcano, 26, of Menifee
Daniel Martin, 42, of Murrieta
Ricardo Pachuca, 23, of Indio
Justin Parish, 46, of Murrieta
Juan Poblano-Martinez, 48, of Thermal
Goldsborough Purnell, 62, of Palm Springs
Eliuth Ramirez, 22, of Thermal
Enrique Ramirez, 23, of Thermal
Travis Risner, 41, of Murrieta
Lenard Rodriguez, 25, of Harbor City
Guadalupe Rosales, 44, of Perris
Adam Sambrano, 39, of Indio
Francisco Scott, 38, of Coachella
Marius Simmons, 47, of Temecula
Anthony Smith, 26, of Palm Desert
Kyle Smith, 26, of Palm Desert
William Spicknall, 37, of Palm Desert
Thomas Stanford, 42, of Indio
Christopher Stiles, 26, of Moreno Valley
Christopher Teague, 23, of Aguanga
Geoffrey Torres, 53, of Lake Elsinore
Mason Tubiolo, 27, of Temecula
Manuel Vega, 44, of Thermal
Gilbert Vita, 27, of La Habra (Not Pictured)
Ivory Woodly, 21, of Lynwood (Not Pictured)
Sheriff’s officials say women and children comprise about 95% of sex trafficking victims. And an estimated one out of every six endangered runaways are likely victims of sex trafficking, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploiting Children.
“Those victimized by commercial sexual exploitation frequently have long histories of emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuse or trauma in their backgrounds,” the release read. “Sex trafficking victims are often subjected not only to severe forms of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of their trafficker but are also frequently physically and sexually assaulted by those that solicit them for prostitution.”
Full results from the statewide operation were not immediately released, though in past years that announcement has typically come in early February.
TYLER, Texas (KLTV) – A Tyler man who was found to have more than 3,500 images of child pornography on his phone agreed to a 10-year prison sentence Friday.
James Edward Clement, 38, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in Judge Reeve Jackson’s 114th Judicial District courtroom as part of a plea agreement. The plea agreement called for him to serve a 10-year prison sentence.
Clement was arrested on the charge on July 9, 2020.
According to a probable cause affidavit, investigators with the Tyler Police Department found approximately 3500 images of child pornography on Clement’s cell phone.
Detectives with the Major Crimes Unit and Homeland Security Special Agents assisted with the search warrant.
The affidavit said evidence of child pornography could be connected to Clements from the Dallas Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, in March, and through the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children by Google.
Bustos-Diaz is 33 years old this year, he’s 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs approximately 160 pounds. He has significant acne scarring on his face. This man has a violent criminal history and should not be approached.
Jose Bustos-Diaz was convicted of murder and then escaped prison. According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, in 2010, Bustos-Diaz escaped from a prison facility in Dilly, Tx. Bustos-Diaz was convicted of murder and was supposed to serve 35 years for the crime. He and another inmate managed to escape by cutting through a perimeter fence. They are believed to have fled to McAllen near the Mexican border.
US authorities have said that at least five children were among six people killed in a shooting rampage at a home in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
The deadly incident happened on Tuesday at about 1:30 a.m. Police arrested a suspect with a gun after a short foot pursuit.
Police responded to the shooting at the home where officers encountered a person with a gun, and one officer fired one shot that missed the armed person as he ran from the scene, police said.
Police said they found one man and four children dead at the scene, and another child died at a hospital, police said.
A woman with life-threatening injuries and an infant were taken to the hospital, police said.
Three people have been arrested after being accused of participating in the human trafficking of a 15-year-old juvenile from Texas, according to Louisiana State Police.
LSP says on Feb. 1, the Bunkie Police Department conducted a traffic stop and discovered the 15-year-old in the vehicle. LSP was called in to assist. Their investigation indicated that the juvenile was being sexually exploited and transported for the purposes of human trafficking from the Houston area. As a result, Terry Williams, 24, of Kingwood, TX, Infiniti Williams, 25, of Kingwood, TX, and Areona Ardoin, 21, of Alexandria, were taken into custody.
T. Williams and Ardoin were booked by the Alexandria Police Department into the Rapides Parish Detention Center and charged with human trafficking and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile. I. Williams was booked by LSP into the Avoyelles Parish Detention Center and charged with human trafficking and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile.
This remains an active investigation, and there is no further information available at this time.
The 18-year-old was inside of a room at the hotel about 7:45 p.m. in the first block of West Illinois Street when someone walked in and opened fire, Chicago police said.
The man was struck in the leg and taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition, police said.
Area Three detectives are investigating.
In the latest shooting, three men were wounded Saturday afternoon in the city’s Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.
The men were involved in an argument with two males about 2:30 p.m. in a building in the 8100 block of South May Street, Chicago police said.
A fight broke out and one of the males pulled out a gun and fired shots at the trio, police said.
A 36-year-old was struck in the foot and taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital, police said. The second man, 27, was shot in the thigh and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center.
The third man, 35, was struck in the hand and taken to Holy Cross Hospital, police said. Their conditions were stabilized.
Police said the two males were being questioned by detectives.
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