Andrew Garcia Wanted for Possession of Child Porn

Crime Stoppers of Houston is asking for help from the public to find a young man who was convicted as a teen with possessing child pornography and has since violated his probation.

Andrew Garcia, 20, was sentenced to 10 years of probation following his 2006 conviction. He was accused of carrying photos of young boys in explicit sexual poses on his cell phone.

A warrant was issued for Garcia's arrest after he violated his probation.

Crime Stoppers is willing to pay up to $5,000 for information provided to Crime Stoppers at 713-222-8477 or submitted online to http://www.crime-stoppers.org/ that leads to the arrest of Andrew Garcia. Information may also be submitted by text message by typing TIP610 before the information and then sending the text message to 274637. Anyone who contacts Crime Stoppers will remain anonymous.

Christopher Mack & Andrea Thomas Charged with Murder & Assault

Lacy Lakeview police are investigating the murder of a young child.

Police Chief Dennis Stapleton said police learned a child had been injured and transported to Providence Hospital by personal vehicle.

Police said the child, who was under 10 years old, was pronounced dead in the emergency room.

Police say they arrested 22-year-old Christopher Mack and 24-year-old Andrea Thomas. Both have been charged with capital murder and aggravated assault.

Police say another child that lived with the two at an apartment complex in the 1700 block of East Crest Drive received non-life threatening injuries.

Police say Child Protective Services is ensuring the care of other children.

Police say the case remains under investigation.
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Roger Rouland Charged with 4 Counts of Child Porn

A 50-year-old former Baylor University lecturer is in the McLennan County Jail on four counts of possession of child pornography found on his computer.

According to Baylor’s Web site, Roger Rouland was a lecturer in the English department and specialized in renaissance literature.

Jill Scoggins, a Baylor University spokeswoman, said Rowland taught up until the end of the spring semester, however heis not currently employed with the university.

Rouland was picked up early today on an arrest warrant affidavit filed by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas, according to arrest warrant affidavits.

The affidavits state that the pictures found on Rouland’s computer depict girls under the age of 18 exposing themselves and/or engaging in sexual conduct.

Rouland is being held in lieu of a total of $60,000 bail, a jail spokeswoman said.
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Bob Bopp Arrested for Sexual Assault

The latest photo of Bob Bopp, the high school hall of fame hockey coach who led Grosse Pointe South to a state championship in 2007, isn't a publicity snapshot or an image captured moments after victory.

It's a blurry mug shot, taken by law enforcement officials after Bopp was booked on suspicion of sexual assault, charges that could land him in jail for the rest of his life.

Bopp, 53, and James McBee, 20, of Highland Township were being held Monday without bond on several felony charges, including raping a 16-year-old Farmington Hills boy in 2007. The men are accused of giving the teen alcohol, showing him pornographic pictures and sexually assaulting him.

Law enforcement officials throughout the region fear there could be others alleging abuse.

Meanwhile on Monday, the Grosse Pointe school district posted a vacancy for the job of Grosse Pointe South varsity hockey coach on its Web site.

Bopp's attorney, Southfield-based Christopher Andreoff, said his client is holding up, but he declined to discuss specifics of the case because he is waiting to see more evidence.

"He's obviously very upset by the charges," Andreoff said of Bopp. "It's very stressful. I told him to have as much patience as he can until we see how this works out."

During a raid of Bopp's home June 16, authorities said they confiscated pornographic images, including videos believed to involve kids. Authorities are now working to identify those in the pictures and on the tapes.

The raid was conducted by federal agents along with officers from the Farmington Hills and Taylor police departments.

Maria Miller, a Wayne County assistant prosecutor, on Monday said: "We would urge anyone with information that may be helpful to the investigation of defendants Bopp and McBee to call their local police."

Parents and team members painted a paradoxical picture of a man fiercely dedicated to his team but also secretive about his personal life.

He was aloof when parents approached him, often avoiding their gaze, even when they came to congratulate him on a good game, one parent said.

'The kids liked him'

"He was very standoffish with parents," said a mother of one team member, who declined to be identified. "He was very hard to get to know, but the kids liked him."

Bryan Sullivan, president of the Michigan Metro High School Hockey League, said Bopp was well-respected and was always advocating for his players to other coaches and nominating them for awards.

Sullivan said several coaches in the league felt a collective guilt for failing to see any warning signs.

"We're all in this for the kids. You don't want to see anything like this happen," said Sullivan, who has known Bopp as a coach for 25 years.

Dan Barry, who took over as president of the Michigan High School Hockey Coaches Association in April 2008, said he was stunned by the allegations.

Barry, the head coach at Warren De La Salle, said he has known Bopp for 16 years.

"He always got the best out of his players," Barry said. "He kept them motivated, and the kids always seemed to like him."

Bopp's preliminary exam is set for June 29.

Meanwhile, Taylor Police Cmdr. Don Helvey said authorities are "bracing for the possibility of other victims."

"That's where we'll do our follow-up -- it's basically waiting to see if anything else comes up from other cases."

Grosse Pointe Schools officials did not return calls Monday to The Detroit News.

'Red flags were ignored'

At a board meeting Monday night, parent Mike Shields told officials his son played on the hockey team for about three years but quit before the end of his senior year because of problems with the coach.

"Red flags were ignored," Shields told the board during the public comments portion of the meeting.

"This issue runs deeper than just the coach."

Bopp started coaching Grosse Pointe South in 1992, amassing a 241-120-12 record before winning the Division II state championship in 2007.


Video: 2007 interview with hockey coach Bob Bopp

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Tony Slone Charged with Sexually Abused Stepdaughters

A long-haul truck driver pleaded not guilty Monday to charges he sexually abused his teenage stepdaughters and fathered one girl's baby.

Tony Slone, 43, entered the plea in Superior Court in Victorville, said Susan Mickey, a spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County district attorney's office.

Slone was charged with sexually abusing his now 13- and 16-year old stepdaughters over the last four years. His wife was charged with child abuse for allegedly letting her elder daughter continue to have contact with Slone after he fathered her 13-month-old child.

Tony Slone was arrested June 4 in Chester, N.Y., where he had traveled for work, and was extradited to California on Sunday. He is a registered sex offender and previously served an eight year-prison sentence for lewd acts with a child.
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Prosecutors say they learned of the abuse when a high school student reported reading sexual text messages on her friend's cell phone from her friend's stepfather.

Mickey said an attorney from the conflict panel was appointed for Slone. No one at the panel's offices was immediately available to comment. Slone's next court date is June 30.

Anita Slone, 47, reached a plea deal with prosecutors last week. She pleaded guilty in exchange for no more than 180 days in county jail and five years probation, said Kathleen DiDonato, a deputy district attorney.

DiDonato said the probation would help protect the daughters until they are adults. Anita Slone is scheduled to be sentenced in July.

Bruce Unger Pleads Guilty to Assault on Child

Former Bryan teacher Bruce Unger agreed to a plea bargain Monday morning and was sentenced to 40 years in prison just minutes before a jury was expected to be selected for his trial on aggravated assault of a child charges.

He pleaded guilty to all charges he faced, which also included indecency with a child and bond jumping.

Opening statements were set to begin in the trial Tuesday morning.

Unger once taught fifth grade at Neal Elementary School in Bryan and received national accolades for creating and coaching a soccer team for at-risk youth.

He was arrested on two charges of indecency with a child by sexual contact in November 2006 after police said he fondled two boys.

In January 2007, he was arrested again and charged with three more counts of indecency and one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child after more people came forward with molestation accusations.

His trial first was scheduled for late 2007, but he failed to show up at a pretrial hearing. His father said at the time that he had taken his motorcycle to Colorado to clear his head.

Unger wasn’t heard from again until December 2008, when local officials, FBI agents and U.S. Marshals tracked him to a town outside Kiev, Ukraine. Authorities said he was living there under the adopted name Tylor McCoy and teaching English lessons.

He was arrested and extradited to Brazos County soon after he was located.

The 30-year-old will return to court Monday afternoon to hear statements from his victims.

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Christopher Wenzlick Charged with Taking Indecent Liberties with Minor

Following a three-month investigation, a 23-year-old man has been charged with taking indecent liberties with someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl.

Christopher Andrew Wenzlick, of the 500 block of Coral Court, was arrested when investigators served a search warrant on his home Friday, police wrote in a news release. He was charged with three counts of taking indecent liberties with a child and one count of using a computer system for crimes against children.

Police seized twelve computers along with confidential material that belonged to the Navy, the release says. Items that belonged to the Navy were turned over to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.

Wenzlick is a sailor stationed aboard the carrier Carl Vinson.

Newport News police received a call from police in Kenton, Kentucky in early March, the release says. The complaint was about a man using a home computer to chat with someone he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. The man had sent inappropriate photos and attempted to solicit photographs of the girl. He had sexually explicit online chats with the girl.
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17 Arrested for Sexually Exploiting Children

It's a crime that victimizes children and it happens thousands of times a day with the click of a button. We first told you about this story last week when police raided a house in Monument. Now police are up to 17 arrests.

Investigators say they're all men who now face felony charges of sexually exploiting children. "People have a tendency to think it's just a video, it's just a picture," says Sgt. Bill Dehart with the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit at the Colorado Springs Police Department, "the reality is that's a child being abused."

In a week's time, police executed several search warrants at homes across southern Colorado. "We're actually doing onsite forensic examinations, recovering databases," says Dehart of what officers are collecting. It's all part of an extensive investigation called Operation Peerless Summer, referencing the peer-to-peer online networks where people are trading child porn.

"If you're sharing those images, those videos on their computer, anyone can find them," says Dehart. Investigators say the ultimate goal is to put a stop to the production of child porn. They've found no evidence yet of children being abused locally.

"We're talking about protecting children," Dehart says. Investigators say they expect additional arrests and say people who commit Internet child porn crimes could be anywhere. Investigators say telling people the crime is happening is part of the battle to stop it.

"The word is getting out," says Dehart, "we're talking about people actively trading child pornography and it's not something people should do." But people are doing and after so many arrests, officers say the crime crosses geographical and socioeconomic boundaries.

"There is no profile where this person is the one, we need to look at," Dehart says. Investigators say they know where to look and how to find out who's trading child pornography online. They say you should be just as aware of what's arriving on your computer.

"You suspect somebody has these images on a computer, it's the old adage, you'll know it when you see it," says Dehart. Investigators say many of the offenders have several hundred images on their hard drives. "You're looking at the memorialization of abuse and it's illegal to possess," says Dehart of online child porn.

Investigators say it's important to talk with your kids about what's appropriate and what's not online to make sure your children don't become victims.
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Sengkeo Phanaphay Charged with Aggravated Sexual Abuse

A Sioux City man faces sexual abuse and child pornography charges. 47-year-old Sengkeo Phanaphay is charged with aggravated sexual abuse, production of child pornography, and possession of child pornography. He allegedly crossed a state line with the intent to engage in a sexual act with a child. The indictment also alleges he planned to produce child pornography of that act. If convicted he faces life in prison.
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Art Arnold Weller Charged with Exchanging Child Porn

An Ocean Shores restaurant cook who got deferred prosecution on a child molesting charge 25 years ago was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for receiving child pornography.

According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Tacoma, 49-year-old Art Arnold Weller came to the attention of FBI agents investigating the exchange of child pornography through peer-to-peer file-sharing technology.

Agents wrote that they found 2,967 pornographic still images and 301 videos on his computer in January 2008, many showing children younger than age 12.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Dion writes that while Weller was not accused of child molesting after the case a quarter-century ago, the pornography episode shows " he has failed to get his demons under control."

Michael Lisbon Charged with Sexually Assaulting Girl

A Somerset County man being questioned Friday during the investigation of the rape and sexual assault of a child in 2006 was also charged with drug violations after state police said they found he was in possession of cocaine and marijuana, state police said.

Michael Eugene Lisbon, 28, of Jennerstown, was charged yesterday in the sexual assault of a girl who was 10 at the time of the incident. He was jailed in the Somerset County Jail on $50,000 bond in that case, which is still under investigation, police said.
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Richard Minifie Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Porn

A Woodinville health-insurance consultant faces up to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography.

Richard L. Minifie, 44, changed his plea this morning in U.S. District Court in Seattle. Sentencing was set for October. He remains in custody.

Minifie was arrested June 5 at his Woodinville home by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who investigate Internet pornography cases. Prosecutors said he had about 600 explicit images on his computer.

Investigators first learned of Minifie's activities in March 2008 when they arrested a Virginia man and found evidence on his computer that he had traded hundreds of images online with Minifie.

After his prison term, Minifie will be on probation for 20 years and will have to register as a sex offender, prosecutors said.
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Joseph Eugene Council Arrested for Child Porn

Police have arrested a former Pass Christian choir and band teacher on child pornography charges that allegedly involve a 14-year-old girl.

Long Beach Assistant Police Chief Don Bass identified him as Joseph Eugene Council, 32, of Edmund Drive in Long Beach. He resigned his position in April.

Council is charged with enticing a child to produce a visual depiction of sexual conduct, computer luring for sexual purposes and possession of child pornography. Police said he teaches at Pass Christian Middle School and Pass Christian High School.

Justice Court Judge Diane Ladner set bond at $75,000.

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Karl Allen Dreyer Sentence to Life for Aggravated Sexual Assault

Just a few hours after convicting Karl Allen Dreyer of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child, a Montgomery County Jury recommended a life sentence in the case. Judge Kathleen Hamilton of the 359th District Court followed the jury’s recommendation and imposed the sentence Friday evening.

The defendant was convicted of violently raping his wife’s 15 year old step-sister. Prosecutors Rob Freyer and Echo Coleman walked the victim through the violent sexual assault, and also presented evidence of another sexual assault perpetrated by this same defendant years earlier. Sheriff’s deputies from the Montgomery county jail testified that the defendant was a behavioral problem in the county jail, and an officer from El Paso testified that after fleeing from this jurisdiction after the most recent sexual assault, the defendant had to be tased when he became violent with officers attempting to arrest him.

The defendant had a prior prison trip for Burglary of a Habitation and several misdemeanor arrests. The jury sentenced the defendant to life after 30 minutes of deliberation.

“I am once again glad that a victim was able to leave a Montgomery County courtroom knowing that the citizens of this county heard their cry for help,” said District Attorney Brett Ligon. “This is prosecutor Rob Freyer’s fifth life sentence from a jury since coming to work for this office in January. He continues to distinguish himself as a champion for those that unfortunately fall victim to these sadistic predators. Juries continue to call for maximum sentences in these cases,- and our office will continue to oblige them.”

Three Men Plead Guilty to Video Taping Sexual Assault

Marcus Lewis,25, Dewayne Towner, 26, and Daniel Webster, 21, had pleaded guilty to sexual assault, and exploiting a child by video taping the encounter. The three are now off to prison after offering apologies to those they hurt.

By pleaded no contest to the charges against them, the three defendants who sexually assaulted a 16-year-old Green Bay girl and video taped the crime avoided a trial. It was that tape that landed Marcus Lewis, Dewayne Towner and Daniel Webster behind bars. Police found the video in the home where the three men were staying. At the time, officers were following up on an unrelated sexual assault complaint, of a 19-year old girl.

Dana Johnson: I obviously think they know what they did was wrong they were videotaping a 16-year-old and the were assaulting her.

Charges were reduced in court to third degree sexual assault based on what was on the tape...But the judge in case calls the video "frightening."

"I'm not losing sight of the fact that you taping it in of itself is a terrible victimization of this person," said Judge Marc Hammer.

And it's the video taping of the assault--a charge of child exploitation-- that gave the three the most time behind bars. Six years for Webster, seven years each for Lewis and Towner. Each received three years prison time on the sexual assault charge. The sentences will be served concurrently.

"We had three goals," explained assistant district attorney Dana Johnson. He says they wanted to insure they got felony convictions, prison sentences, and not to have to have the victim return to the state to testify at a trial.

The court confirmed the 16-year-old victim, as well as the 19-year-old victim for which Lewis was also sentenced for third degree sexual assault, have moved out of state and offered no victim statements. The only impact testimony came from Webster's mother.

"I'm here to support my son," Joyce Webster told the court.

Outside of court she agreed the sentence was fair.

"It's a shocker but he has to pay for his consequences," said Joyce Webster.

She says her son has expressed regret for his actions, and the other defendants offered apologies in court.

"I hurt a lot of people, made some wrong choices and I apologize for what I did," said Lewis.

Each defendant has been behind bars for nearly a year, since their arrest, that time will be subtracted from their prison sentence. Once they get out of prison each will be under extended supervision by the courts.

Rev. Gerald Dunne Accused of Child Sexual Abuse

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia says a priest accused of child sexual abuse denies the accusation but has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.

Church officials say parishioners at Resurrection of Our Lord Parish in Philadelphia were informed of the allegation against the Rev. Gerald Dunne this past weekend, following the filing of a lawsuit last week in Delaware.

The plaintiff in the lawsuit accuses Dunne, a member of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, of sexually abusing him some 30 years ago at Salesianium High School in Wilmington.