Jun. 21—An ordained minister accused of drugging and raping a woman and molesting a child was arrested in Spokane Friday. Russell Anders, 55, was arrested Friday morning at his home on the 1800 block of West Gardener Avenue in Spokane by a United States Marshals’ task force on an outstanding federal warrant. Anders is charged […]
Apr. 11—COLFAX — After extensive deliberation, a Whitman County jury found guilty a 34-year-old man accused of molesting a teenage boy from Pullman. Juan Trejo Perez was convicted of felony third-degree child molestation Wednesday afternoon. This concluded a three-day jury trial at the Whitman County Superior Court. The trial included testimony from several of the […]
Apr. 3—A Kokomo man charged with 20 counts of child molestation and four counts of sexual misconduct with a minor is seeking to have at least part of the charges dismissed. Geremy Miller, 46, through his attorney Brent Dechert, filed a motion to dismiss late last month, arguing that similar allegations were investigated in 2013 […]
A hacked Jaguars Jumbotron was the start of an awful, awful story. (Photo by Rob Foldy/Getty Images) A Jacksonville Jaguars employee was let go in 2018. What happened next ultimately resulted in him being sentenced to more than two centuries in prison. Samuel Arthur Thompson, 53, was sentenced to 220 years in federal prison Tuesday […]
Mar. 27—The 55-year sentence given to a Kokomo man guilty of child molesting was upheld by the Indiana Appeals Court. The court ruled this month that former Howard County Superior Court 2 Judge Brant Parry did not err in sentencing Wayne Jewell to almost the maximum allowed. In March 2023, a jury found Jewell, 55, […]
A metro Atlanta school bus driver is facing multiple child sex crime charges, according to the school district. Cartersville City Schools confirmed to Channel 2 Action News that they began investigating earlier this month after being “alerted to potentially inappropriate behavior from a school bus driver to a student.” [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for […]
Two men accused of child molestation were arrested by the Floyd County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday. According to the sheriff’s office, Rony Hernandez-Alexander, 38, of Cleveland, Tenn. made contact with someone online he believed to be a child under the age of 16. He is accused of having graphic sexual conversations with the undercover agent […]