A four-day long sting operation netted 21 arrests last week, 10 charged with felonies related to contacting minors to arrange sex. Another 11 people were charged with misdemeanors during Operation Stolen Hearts, according to KMPH, mostly on charges such as loitering for prostitution. The Department of Homeland Security assisted with the operation. Fresno police said …
A North Carolina man police say may have been sexually assaulting children for the past 40 years was arrested Thursday when he was found behind a dumpster with a child. The Concord Police Department charged Ricky Lynn McClellan, 66, with indecent liberties with a minor after following a tip about suspicious activity behind a dumpster …
A Louisiana FBI agent has been arrested on multiple sexual misconduct charges, including indecent behavior with children. David Harris, 51, who was assigned to the FBI’s New Orleans field office, faces charges in three Louisiana parishes, the Louisiana State Police said. He was arrested in Ascension Parish by the Louisiana State Police Bureau of Investigations …
A Utah man was charged last week with raping and sodomizing a 16-year-old girl after her mother alerted police to suspicious texts between her daughter and the suspect. The mother told police that Scott Preston Ferree, 23, used “some type of devil worship language” to manipulate the teen into sex acts, KUTV reported. When investigators …
Houston police are looking for an Uber driving accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old who had hired him to take her to a local Family Dollar store. Police said Leonel Medina, 49, picked up the girl on May 12 and drove to a dead end in the back of a neighborhood instead of the store. …
A 5-year-old boy crawled out from under a bathroom stall this week to escape a sexual assault in the locker room of a Utah recreation center. The Utah County Sheriff’s Office arrested Jonathan Jareth Soberanis, 26, on Tuesday, charging him with lewdness involving a child, criminal trespass with intent to commit a crime, unlawful detention …
“Drake and Josh” star Drake Bell was arrested on Thursday in Ohio for crimes he allegedly committed against a 15-year-old girl in 2017. The actor, whose real name is Jared Bell, 34, was charged in Cuyahoga County with attempted endangering children and disseminating matter harmful to juveniles. WJW reported that the criminal charges stem from …
A Salt Lake City school board member has been arrested on charges of sexual exploitation of a minor after an investigation found images of child pornography, including some with children as young as 5 years old. Joél-Léhi Organista faces eight counts of sexual exploitation, Fox 13 reports. Officials said Oganista reportedly admitted that he downloaded, …
Police in Irvine, California, have asked for help identifying a man suspected of sexual battery inside a Target store earlier this week. They described the suspect as a light-skinned, about 5 feet 7 inches tall, thin build, 35 to 45 years old. He was wearing a long-sleeved, button-up shirt with the sleeves rolled up, gray …
A Florida airman has been charged with raping an 11-year-old girl in north Alabama after meeting the child on an online dating app. Air Force Senior Airman Keith Williams, who serves on a maintenance squadron at Hurlburt Field in Okaloosa County, allegedly traveled to Decatur, Alabama — 340 miles away — in October 2020 and …
Police in a Minneapolis suburb are looking for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a 6-year-old boy in a porta potty at a park in a residential area. Brooklyn Park Deputy Chief Mark Bruley said the incident took place at about 9 p.m. Wednesday in Willowstone Park. He said a family was holding a party …
A West Virginia man has been charged with more than 300 counts of incest after investigators said he sexually assaulted a juvenile relative for six years. Billie Gene Seabolt, 65, has also been charged with sexual abuse by a custodian or guardian and first degree sexual assault, WOWK reported. The station cited a criminal complaint …
