School bus driver, a former teacher, arrested in child porn sting
ISSAQUAH, Wash. — A former teacher who is now a substitute bus driver for the Issaquah School District was arrested by Homeland Security agents on Thursday on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography. Undercover agents said they caught Andrew Rekdahl, 30, downloading and sharing child pornography under the screenname “Hboyandy.” When he [...]
Man, 21, stabs computer with samurai sword ‘to destroy child pornography’ as FBI raids his bedroom
A 21-year-old man tried to destroy his child pornography stash by stabbing his computer with a Samurai sword after FBI agents burst into his home. The home of Kamil Mezalka, 21, was stormed by officers on Tuesday to seize his machine after an undercover agent downloaded horrific images and videos from the man’s computer via a [...]
Bolingbrook man charged with aggravated child pornography
A combined local, county and state effort that tracks Internet-access information has resulted in the arrest of a 34-year-old Bolingbrook man on five counts of aggravated child pornography. Joseph A. Truschke, who appeared in Will County court Monday, was arrested Thursday at his home on the 700 block of Melissa Drive. Bolingbrook Police also seized Truschke’s [...]
Man charged with possession of child porn
A 26-year-old Carol Stream man has been charged with possession of child pornography, Wheaton police said Thursday. Wheaton police said in a news release that Mitchell E. Dunnam, 26, of Gold Finch Court in Carol Stream, turned himself in at the Wheaton Police Station on a warrant issued in DuPage County court. Dunnam has been [...]
Eric Justin Toth, Alleged Child Pornographer, Added To FBI’s Most Wanted List
The FBI added an alleged child pornographer to its list of Ten Most Wanted fugitives. Eric Justin Toth was 26 and a third-grade teacher in a Washington, D.C. private school in 2008 when authorities accused him of possession of kiddie porn. Another teacher at Beauvoir, an elite school, discovered graphic photos and videos of students on a [...]
Sex offender arrested after looking at child porn – in Starbucks
A registered sex offender has been held in the U.S for allegedly viewing child pornography at a Starbucks. Luis Mendonsa, 49, was held at a Sacramento Starbucks after police were called by a patron who reported a man looking at kiddie porn in full view of other customers. ‘(He) said that there was a subject [...]
Cops: Child porn found on Des Plaines man’s computers
A 49-year-old Des Plaines man has been charged with nine counts of aggravated child pornography after the images were discovered on his computers during a sexual abuse investigation involving his relatives. Last summer, Des Plaines detectives investigated an alleged aggravated criminal sexual abuse case involving James Brewer, of the 100 block of Village Court, and [...]
Another Des Plaines man charged with child porn possession
A 45-year-old Des Plaines man will appear in Skokie court April 16 after being charged with 20 felony counts of aggravated possession of child pornography and possession of child pornography, authorities said. This is the second arrest on child pornography in Des Plaines this week. Bruce Liedke, of the 1300 block of Rand Road, allegedly [...]
Karate man arrested for child pornography
The Nebraska State Patrol arrested a Minatare man on charges of possessing child pornography. Richard William Knott Jr., 24, was arrested at about 7 a.m. Friday, Lt. Monica Bartling said. The Scotts Bluff County Detention Center also confirmed he was in custody. Few other details about the case are available. According to a press release, [...]
Opera singing lawyer leaps to his death from balcony as police investigate him for child porn
A bankruptcy lawyer turned opera singer committed suicide by leaping from an 11-story building just hours after being released from jail where he had been held on child porn charges Stephen David Jerome, 61, from Fort Lauderdale, had been released on bond from the Broward County Jail last week charged with minor drug offenses. Police [...]
Man accused of bomb-making now also charged with having child porn
A Wood Dale man accused of building explosives with ingredients he bought online has been charged with also obtaining child pornography from the Internet, DuPage County authorities said Tuesday. Bryan Roehr was charged with aggravated possession of child pornography after investigators who searched his computer found “hundreds of photos and videos” containing images of children, [...]
Sex offender admits child porn charge
A registered sex offender admitted today to possessing child pornography at his home in Hayden Lake, Idaho. John Patrick McClaren, 46, faces up to 15 years in prison when he’s sentenced June 19 in U.S. District Court in Coeur d’Alene, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force began [...]