One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Feds warn current, former military personnel about social media accounts.
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security fear the terrorist group ISIS is using Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites to target members of the U.S. military.
The federal government is urging members of the military, veterans and their families to be careful what they post on their accounts.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled 12-year-old’s online life brings an abductor to her doorstep.
On November 10, a 12-year-old girl left her home in the Baltimore suburb of Nottingham at 7:30am, heading to her middle school. She never returned home. When her mother called the school later, she discovered that her daughter had not even arrived. Suddenly, Baltimore County Police were calling in the FBI to assist in their search for a missing person.
Source: Ars Technica
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. SC Magazine published an article titled Former acting HHS cyber director convicted on child porn charges.
A federal jury in Nebraska on Tuesday convicted Timothy DeFoggi, the former acting director of cyber security at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), on child pornography charges.
DeFoggi, one of several persons nabbed in an ongoing FBI investigation of three child porn websites, is the sixth person convicted, according to a Justice Department announcement. He was convicted on seven counts, including engaging in a child exploitation enterprise as well as in conspiracy to advertise and distribute child porn and accessing a computer with intent to view child porn.
Source: SC Magazine
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Teen prostitute rescued, 3 pimps arrested in Alabama as part of FBI nationwide sex-trafficking sweep.
A 17-year-old Alabama girl forced into prostitution was rescued and three pimps arrested during a week-long, nationwide sex-trafficking operation, the FBI announced Monday.
Also in North Alabama, which stretches from Birmingham to Huntsville, lawmen rescued a six-week old baby and identified 14 adult women, some of who had been forced into prostitution since they were juveniles.
“Sex trafficking of children is one of the most violent and unconscionable crimes committed in this country,” said Richard D. Schwein Jr., special agent in charge of the FBI’s Birmingham division. “There are few law enforcement missions more important than protecting our nation’s children.”
Operation Cross County VIII was carried out in 106 cities across 54 FBI field divisions. Lawmen recovered 168 children who were being victimized through prostitution, and arrested 281 pimps on state and federal charges.
Source: AL.com
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Jurors find former Mobile County commissioner guilty of enticing a child for sex.
Jockisch, 69, was arrested last fall, five months after he answered a casual encounter ad on Craigslist, according to testimony. In July 2013 he started corresponding with a 15-year-old girl.
The girl turned out to be an undercover FBI agent.
Source: AL.com
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Wired published an article titled If You Used This Secure Webmail Site, the FBI Has Your Inbox.
While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail.
Now the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail in unrelated investigations.
The bureau’s data windfall, seized from a company called Freedom Hosting, surfaced in court papers last week when prosecutors indicted a Florida man for allegedly selling counterfeit credit cards online. The filings show the FBI built its case in part by executing a search warrant on a Gmail account used by the counterfeiters, where they found that orders for forged cards were being sent to a TorMail e-mail account: “platplus@tormail.net.”
Source: Wired
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Dothan police, FBI searching for sexual predator who kidnaps children.
Multiple agencies, including the Dothan Police Department, Houston County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI, are looking for a suspect accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting two girls and attempting to kidnap a third at Dothan area mobile home parks. The three cases have happened over the last two and a half months.
Authorities started their investigation on Sept. 6 when a young girl sleeping in her bed was abducted from her home in the Garden Estates Trailer Park on Hodgesville Road. The male suspect took the child to an unknown location, sexually assaulted her and then returned her to her home.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled FBI releases images of suspected child predator.
The FBI needs your help to find a child predator.
His identity is currently unknown but agents say he may be involved with child exploitation and the sexual abuse of a minor.
Video of the man engaging in sexually explicit activities was found online in April 2013 by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Investigators have isolated images from the video in the hopes of tracking this person down.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled 3 AL teens recovered in nation-wide sex traffic sting.
Three Alabama juveniles were recovered in a nation-wide sex trafficking sting.
The FBI announced Monday that 105 children involved in sex trafficking were recovered in 76 U.S. cities.
In Birmingham, three juveniles ranging in age from 13 to 17 were rescued. The 13-year-old is the youngest juvenile involved, according to an FBI spokesman.
Source: WSFA
One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNN published an article titled Fugitive on ‘Most Wanted’ list returned to U.S.
A suspected child predator who was a “most-wanted” fugitive when captured in Nicaragua appeared in federal court on Tuesday where he confirmed his identity and was ordered held.
Eric Toth, 31, a former private school teacher and camp counselor, entered no plea to charges of possession and production of child pornography.
Source: CNN
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