News Releases and Statements
News Releases and Statements
Kyle J. Tate, 34, of Seattle was arrested following the execution of a search warrant at his home. He made his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Seattle Friday afternoon and was ordered detained pending a hearing next week.
Robert Garneau is charged with communicating with three different underage victims online and convincing them to take sexually explicit photographs and send them to Garneau online.
James Gregory O’Neill, 58, was sentenced Monday afternoon by U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner. O’Neill pleaded guilty in January to possessing child pornography on his mobile phone in the spring of 2015.
Reynaldo Ramirez, 38, was arrested on a criminal complaint Dec. 24, 2015. The May 2 court heard that the case began when a CCPD detective was able to successfully download various files containing child pornography from an Internet Protocol address that was associated with Ramirez.
Derrick Jones, 45, of Arlington, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 15 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release, and will be required to register as a sex offender upon release from prison. In January 2016, Jones pleaded guilty to receipt of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
Paul Binh Do, 29, surrendered to federal authorities Monday morning. He was charged last month with one count of traveling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and one count of receipt of child pornography.
Approximately 5,000 students from the public and private schools in Puerto Rico received tips on how to avoid falling victim to online sexual predators Wednesday and Thursday at the Complejo Ferial de Puerto Rico in Ponce. The presentation is the third child abuse prevention and education summit organized by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in San Juan, and one of largest Project iGuardian outreach since the inception of the initiative in March 2014.
Laron Carter, also known as “Birdd” and variations of that moniker, 39, was found guilty Wednesday afternoon by a federal jury following a five-day trial. The jury convicted Carter of seven counts of sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud or coercion; and seven counts of transporting a child to engage in prostitution.
Jack L. Bean, Jr., 29, was charged in a criminal complaint with one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
Recognizing similarities with human trafficking investigations during this project, police were also able to ensure the safety of nine people who had been working in the sex trade as a minor or against their will, including 14, 15, and 16-year-olds.
Mauricio Edgardo Estrada, 28, who has been placed on administrative leave by LAUSD, surrendered to federal authorities following his indictment Tuesday by a federal grand jury.
Ronald Swearns, 27, distributed images over the Internet to other users and engaged in illicit sexual acts with a minor whom he groomed for sexual activity, the investigation revealed.
Those arrested Tuesday include Luis Gutierrez, 49, of Chino; Gerald Patrick Beaver, 53, of Cerritos; Jace Jeanes, 39, of Torrance, Steven David Lavinsky, 58, of Long Beach;
Kenneth Martin Medellin, 55, of Carson; Antonio Joseph Garcia II, 41, of Upland; Michael Brian Perry, 37, of Pasadena; and Curtis Audun Larssen, 33, of Los Angeles.
According to court documents, in 2014, a Marion County Sheriff’s Office investigation into online child pornography resulted in the execution of a search warrant at the home of Robert Toole, 51, of Ocala.
Michael Joseph Carr, 25, of Grand Prairie, has been in federal custody since his arrest in May 2015 on a related federal criminal complaint.
Nicholas Torrieri, 43, of Redding, was sentenced Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller. Upon his release from prison, Torrieri will be required to register as a sex offender and will be supervised by the court for the rest of his life. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Josh F. Sigal prosecuted the case.
The coordinated effort of this Europol Victim Identification Task Force (VIDTF) yielded significant results: More than 250 series of child sexual abuse images and video files have been uploaded to the INTERPOL International Child Sexual Exploitation Database and additions made to more than 300 existing series.
According to the affidavit that accompanies the criminal complaint that charges Edison Jose Diaz-Carreras, 38, with sexual enticement of a minor, he attempted to entice and coerce a female minor who at the time of the initial communications was 13 years old.
East Oklahoma man sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting his young daughter
Kenneth O’Neal Batten, 37, of Claremore, Oklahoma, was charged Sept. 8, 2015; he pleaded guilty Jan. 12, 2016.
Luis Rivera, 19, of Irving, Texas, pleaded guilty in October 2015 to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of children. Last month, Rivera’s co-defendant, Brady Rodriguez-Cruz, aka Marcos Antonio Rodriguez-Mejia, 33, also of Irving, was sentenced by Judge Boyle to 293 months in federal prison.
Joel Wright, 23, of Columbus, Ohio, admitted he placed ads on a Craigslist in November 2015 looking for a Mexico-based female tour guide.
HSI special agents arrested Luis Melendez-Ramos, 21, and Byron Montijo-Maysonet, 29, following an investigation that stemmed from a referral by the PRPD Arecibo Sexual Crimes Division. The referral alleged that on or about Nov. 24, 2015, and Nov. 30, 2015, both men transported three female minors aged 13 and 14 to a local motel to engage in criminal sexual conduct.
Troy Linehan Crutchfield, 26, of Costa Mesa, is suspected of taking and sending lewd videos of himself to a minor.
Tule Israel Alonso-Castañeda, 27, of Douglas, was sentenced Monday and ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release with stringent sex offender conditions, including the condition that he register as a sex offender.
Robert Kinney, Jr., 41, of Blaine, Maine was sentenced by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 15 years in prison and 15 years of supervised release for his role in sharing numerous images of child pornography. Blaine was also ordered to pay $6,000 in restitution.
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