NEW BROCKTON, Ala. -A mother and her two children are missing from New Brockton. They were last seen on Tuesday afternoon, per that city’s police department.
29-year old Kadance Cierra Hooper is believed to be driving a 2017 Nissan Rogue bearing license plate NYD337. She presumably is accompanied by her two sons, Hollister, age six and Thomas, who is two.
New Brockton Police Chief Dale Grimes told WTVY that Hooper is believed to armed and possibly a threat to herself and her children. She also suffers from Multiple Sclerosis, an illness that sometimes causes depression and anxiety.
She apparently left town after picking up her oldest child from school on Tuesday.
Report tips to the New Brockton Police Department at 334-894-5559.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — State officials say seven men have been arrested and charged in a northern Minnesota human trafficking ring.
The defendants, including five from Minnesota, were arrested Wednesday through Friday during an undercover operation. They’re being held in jails in Itasca and Pennington counties. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension led the sting in partnership with the Tribes United Against Sex Trafficking Task Force and Itasca County Sheriff’s Office.
The BCA says the men connected with undercover investigators on sex advertisement websites. Many of the charges involve soliciting a person believed to be a minor.
A man and woman are both behind bars on $1.15 million bail each after an investigation uncovered thousands of images of child pornography on cellphones, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
Krystalyn Amanda Keck and David Edward Koch, both 32 of Antelope Street in Middleburg, were arrested Tuesday on 11 counts each of possession of photos of sexual performances by a child, and one of transmission of pornography via any medium, Duval County jail records show.
According to Koch’s arrest warrant, police got nine tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding email addresses used to upload 50 child-pornography images Jan. 10 to April 4 of last year. The email addresses were traced to Keck and Koch.
Both suspects’ cellphones were seized and delivered to the Internet Crimes Against Children for forensic examination. The search uncovered pictures of Koch and Keck, some showing them performing sexual acts together, the warrant said. Several conversations or messages were found between them discussing sexual encounters with each other.
“The chats generally progressed to the sharing of media files and in some cases led to the discussion of what types of sexual acts they felt would be appropriate to perform with an actual prepubescent child,” the warrant said. “One conversation was located where it appeared that the participants discussed a past sexual interaction with a child.”
The investigation ultimately uncovered 5,650 files containing child sexual-abuse material, the warrant said.
Former Brooksville Mayor Kevin Hohn has been charged with the possession and distribution of child pornography.
According to a report from the U.S. State Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida, a homeland security agent begun an investigation in September 2020 and found nearly 30 images of child pornography being downloaded to an IP address registered at Hohn’s home.
On Feb. 19, a search warrant was conducted and forensic agents found more than 100 images of child pornography on an external hard drive at Hohn’s home.
Hohn was a member of the Brooksville City Council in 2011 and served as mayor in 2014 before attempting to run for county commissioner in 2020, but did not ultimately make the ballot in 2020.
If convicted, Hohn could face a minimum mandatory penalty of five years, and up to 20 years, in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervised release.
Police in Thailand have arrested a top child modelling agent after a raid at his office allegedly uncovered more than half a million images related to child sexual abuse, involving at least 40 minors from the country and thousands of children from around the world.
Danudet Sangkaew, 23, goes by the nickname “Nene” and ran one of Thailand’s top modelling agencies.
According to a Channel News Asia (CNA) report, the victims are all male minors aged between six and 15.
Thailand’s department of special investigations (DSI) said an 11 February raid at the Nene Modelling Agency in Pathum Thani province, following a tip-off from Australian police, recovered pictures on a computer hard drive of child sexual assault and abuse.
Police in Thailand have arrested a top child modelling agent after a raid at his office allegedly uncovered more than half a million images related to child sexual abuse, involving at least 40 minors from the country and thousands of children from around the world.
Danudet Sangkaew, 23, goes by the nickname “Nene” and ran one of Thailand’s top modelling agencies.
According to a Channel News Asia (CNA) report, the victims are all male minors aged between six and 15.
Thailand’s department of special investigations (DSI) said an 11 February raid at the Nene Modelling Agency in Pathum Thani province, following a tip-off from Australian police, recovered pictures on a computer hard drive of child sexual assault and abuse.
“The agent usually approached them through schools by pretending to search for young models. Such access allowed him to target children, forge ties with their parents and eventually abuse them at his office outside Bangkok. When the child told his parents, they’d think ‘Oh! This came through the teachers. This is already screened,’ and trust him.”
DSI’s director-general, Korrawat Panprapakorn, was quoted by the Bangkok Post as saying that “the amount of evidence convinced investigators the agency must have been behind the abuse of thousands of children.”
According to the newspaper, Mr Sangkaew has been charged with “importing pornographic images into a computer system and sexually abusing minors.”
The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man after an ongoing child enticement investigation by a registered sex offender.Sheriff Terry Wagner says 42-year-old Terran McKethan was arrested Thursday afternoon near 48th and Huntington after a report in December was made by the Department of Health and Human Services.Wagner says the already convicted sex offender was contacting young girls online using Snapchat and other forms of social media and offering marijuana in exchange for sexual acts.The investigation shows that McKethan has used several different names on social media accounts to contact victims.Wagner says three victims aged 14, 15, and 16 have come forward but believes there could be more.McKethan was arrested for sex trafficking of a minor, sexual assault of a child, felony sex offender registration violation, child abuse, delivery of a controlled substance, enticing by electronic communications, and eliciting prostitution. He remains in the Lancaster County Jail.McKethan’s original sex offense came from Dodge County, where he was convicted in 2005.The Lancaster County Sherriff’s Office encourages anyone who may have been in contact with McKethan to come forward.
At least 27 students were abducted Wednesday when armed men raided a state-run school in Niger State, north-west Nigeria, a government official told us.
The gunmen, wearing military fatigues according to witnesses, stormed the Government Science Secondary School Kagara at around 2am on Wednesday morning. One student was killed during the abduction, a resident told reports.
The tally of people abducted from the boarding school facility could also rise as an unknown number of teachers are still missing, the spokeswoman for the Niger state governor told reports.
Information reaching us is that 27 students are still missing. We don’t know the number of teachers at the moment. We don’t want to put numbers that will turn out contradictory, but efforts are being made to rescue them,” Mary Noel Barje, the chief press secretary to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, said.
“The governor has also ordered the boarding schools to close down,” Barje added.
Students pack their bags to leave the school after the abduction.
Kagara resident Abubakar Mohammed told reports that one student was killed by the gunmen.
“At about 2am, they stormed the staff quarters of the school,” said Mohammed, who told us he was at the school site Wednesday morning and saw a dead body being lifted out of the students’ hostel by police.
“They forced the children of staffers to take them to the hostel. There they abducted the students along with some members of staff. They killed one of the students in the hostel. His body is now at the police station in Kagara. Police is now everywhere in the school,” Mohammed said.
He added that residents of the community were on high alert after receiving a warning about the planned attack.
“At about yesterday evening, we heard information that bandits were coming to Kagara but we did not know where they will attack. Later at about 10pm, we heard that they were just on the outskirts of Kagara, there was panic,” he said.
President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the abduction of the school children.
“The President has directed the Armed Forces and Police, to ensure immediate and safe return of all the captives,” Buhari’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said in a statement on Wednesday.
The President has also dispatched to Minna, Niger State a team of security chiefs to coordinate the rescue operation and meet with state officials, community leaders, as well as parents and staff of the college.”
CLAYTON — Harry Hamm, a former longtime KMOX-AM radio broadcaster and entertainment editor, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal child pornography charges.
Hamm, 79, of Chesterfield, admitted that FBI investigators found child porn on his two iPhones and his personal laptop in 2018. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Livergood said during Wednesday’s hearing that they also found evidence that he had searched for child porn on his work iPad and laptop and viewed child porn on the iPad.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of child porn and one count of access with intent to view child porn. His sentencing, which was set to occur immediately after his plea, was delayed roughly two months after U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark balked at allowing lawyers to file sealed memos regarding the sentence Hamm should receive.
Hamm started his broadcasting career with KMOX in 1975 with entertainment reviews on a program hosted by Jack Carney. He was a regular on “Total Information AM Weekend Edition” and covered theater openings and movies. He was dismissed after his arrest.
Hamm was a founding member of the St. Louis Theater Circle, a local art critics organization, and helped found St. Louis Children’s Hospital’s development board.
Still pending in St. Louis County Circuit Court are felony charges of second-degree statutory sodomy, incest and possession of child pornography. He’s accused there of having “deviate sexual intercourse” with a child under 17 and having child porn on his phone. Hamm has pleaded not guilty.
Eight victims of human trafficking, including a two-year-old and an infant, were rescued in Missouri this month during a joint operation with 16 state and local agencies including the FBI, U.S. Marshals, and the Attorney General’s Office.
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced the joint operation’s success saying it sends a clear message to human traffickers in Missouri.
Late in the evening of Feb. 5, the coalition of state and local agencies completed the human trafficking operation at two St. Joseph, Missouri truck stops.
“This operation was successful because of cooperation between my Office, the St. Joseph Police Department, the state highway patrol, the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Office, and 13 other agencies and departments,” Schmitt said.
In addition to the arrests that were made, six adults and two children were rescued. The victims were offered victim services, including food, lodging, onsite medical services, counseling/therapy and drug rehabilitation, a news release said.
“Last night, my Office’s Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force, in coordination with multiple law enforcement agencies, conducted a successful human trafficking operation at two truck stops in St. Joseph, resulting in 6 victims and 2 children being rescued and 3 arrests,” said Attorney General Schmitt.
Of the agencies involved in the operation was the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC).
The DOC said two of its staff members were “instrumental” in the takedown.
District 20 Administrator Tena Riley and Missouri Information Analysis Center Investigator Katie Folsom are part of the Attorney General’s Office Human Trafficking Task Force, which consists of law enforcement and victim service providers from around the state working together to combat human trafficking, rescue victims and make Missouri communities safer, a news release said.
Working with representatives from other agencies, Riley and Folsom contributed intelligence expertise to the task force and also performed communications roles in the St. Joseph operation.
“The task force is amazing; they’re just so dedicated. I’m super thankful to be involved,” Riley says. “Human trafficking is an all-encompassing problem. If we all work together, we’re going to make a dynamic change.”
The investigation into the human trafficking incident in St. Joseph is ongoing and as such, a news release said, further details about the operation cannot be released at this time.
A 40-year-old man who secretly recorded a naked girl, then send out the material.
These are only three men of the 15 busted on child porn and other more serious charges, in the second phase of a massive quarantine-driven operation in South Jersey, authorities said (scroll down for a complete rundown of each individual charged).
The 15 arrests come are part of “Operation Safe Quarantine II,” which ran from August 2020 through January 2020, and fueled by an increase of in threatening online activity toward children, according to Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina.
The investigations during both phases were spearheaded by the BCPO High-Tech Crimes Unit, with assistance from the Cinnaminson Township Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the New Jersey State Police and United States Homeland Security Investigations – Cherry Hill Office.
The following individuals were charged:
Jason McCann, 35, of Blackwood, was charged August 12, 2020 with Luring, Attempted Obscenity of a Minor and Attempted Endangering the Welfare of a Child. McCann believed he was sending pictures of his genitals and videos of himself masturbating to a 13-year-old girl, but the actual recipient was a Special Agent of United States Homeland Security Investigations. He attempted to arrange a meeting at a park in Bordentown Township to have sex with the girl.
Mark Garagozzo, 31, Ambler, Pennsylvania, was charged September 10, 2020 with Endangering the Welfare of a Child (Second Degree). Garagozzo is accused of Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material. Garagozzo was arrested in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2020 with the assistance of the United States Homeland Security Investigations Philadelphia Field Office and the Ambler Police Department.
Frank Gibson, 72, of Tabernacle, was charged September 24, 2020 with Endangering the Welfare of a Child (Third Degree). Gibson is charged with Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material, including images of infants and toddlers.
Juvenile Male, 17, from Willingboro, was charged September 30, 2020 with Endangering the Welfare of a Child (Third Degree). He is charged with Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material.
Douglas Harper, 53, of Marlton, was charged October 2, 2020 with four counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child (three are Second Degree and one is Third Degree). Harper is charged with Distribution, Possession with the Intent to Distribute, Use of File Sharing Software and Possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material.
Trevor Brown, 34, of Marlton, was charged October 15, 2020 with two counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child (one is Second Degree and one is Third Degree). Brown is charged with Distributing and Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material.
Trevor Brown, 34, of Marlton, was charged October 15, 2020 with two counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child (one is Second Degree and one is Third Degree). Brown is charged with Distributing and Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material.
David Epps Jr., 34, of Medford, was charged October 21, 2020 with two counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child (one is Second Degree and one is Third Degree). Epps Jr. is charged with Distributing and Possessing Child Sexual Abuse Material.
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