A lawsuit has been filed against the city of Murrieta on behalf local sex offender registrants who are challenging requirements that they must register in person during the coronavirus pandemic, while state and local governments ask that residents stay home to prevent the virus’ spread. The lawsuit was filed by the Alliance for Constitutional Sex […]
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The father of a former Sarah Lawrence College student allegedly extorted and abused several students from the prestigious university and forced at least one student into prostitution over the past decade, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Lawrence Ray “exploited and abused young women and men emotionally, physically and sexually for his own financial gain,” ultimately extorting […]
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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 […]
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Police have arrested six men accused of trying to solicit an underage girl for sexual purposes. Woodstock Police conducted a three-day online operation targeting online predators. During the operation, five of the suspects were arrested when they arrived at a location where they thought they were meeting a 16 year-old girl. A sixth man was […]
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A Thermal man charged with molesting a teenage relative had his bail reduced Wednesday from $1 million to $55,000, in the wake of the dismissal of a kidnapping count. The bail reduction approved by Riverside County Superior Court Judge Burke Strunsky came two weeks after another judge ordered 36-year-old Elit Barroso Miranda to stand trial […]
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A Desert Hot Springs man who was previously required to register as a sex offender pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of filming people inside a grocery store bathroom in Cathedral City. Jason Pomare, 41, is charged with three felony counts of possessing matter depicting a minor in a sexual act and 10 misdemeanor counts […]
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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, […]
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U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the El Centro Sector arrested two previously deported sex crime offenders over the weekend. The first incident occurred on Friday at around 11:25 p.m., when agents assigned to the Calexico Station encountered a man suspected of illegally entering the United States approximately one mile east of the Calexico West […]
