A Redondo Beach man was in custody Friday, accused of attempting to extort a woman he was having a sexual relationship with, allegedly threatening to share her nude photos if she didn’t pay him. Joel Daza, 44, was arrested Thursday at a hotel on Sunnymead Boulevard in Moreno Valley, the day after an identified woman […]
A San Diego judge has awarded $12.7 million to 22 women who claimed they were deceived and coerced into filming pornography they did not know would be posted online. Tuesday’s decision stems from a lawsuit filed by the unnamed women against pornography website GirlsDoPorn and concluded a trial that began in August. San Diego Superior […]
A former nanny from Burbank was sentenced Monday to 30 years behind bars for producing child pornography using at least four children who had been placed under his care, most of whom were 8 and 9 years old. U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. also placed 35-year-old Travis Elconin on supervised release for the […]
Two Disney employees were arrested in a child pornography sting orchestrated by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. They were among 17 people nabbed in an undercover sting operation, according to a press release from the agency. Brett Kinney, 40, of Lake Alfred, Florida, told investigators he was a guest experience manager at Disney World, […]
Two Palm Desert men are due in court Wednesday for alleged crimes involving children. Devin Daniel Lujan, 28, and James McCall Anderson, 31, were both arrested in the 74000 block of Scholar Lane on June 28 after deputies were tipped off about suspected child sexual abuse. Lujan was arraigned last month on suspicion of willfully […]
A Lake Elsinore man is in custody on suspicion of raping three underage girls, sheriff’s officials reported Tuesday. Deputies at the Lake Elsinore station received an anonymous tip last month and launched an investigation that turned up alleged evidence that Morgan Fowler, 29, “had an inappropriate sexual relationship with three female juveniles,” according to sheriff’s […]
A man accused of using a hidden camera to take inappropriate images of children was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday at the Banning Justice Center. Robert Anthony Salas, a 44-year-old Calimesa resident arrested on Tuesday, faces charges of possession of child pornography and criminal invasion of privacy. Acting on a tip, investigators obtained a search […]
