Middlesex Child Molester Gets 5 Years For Trying To Hook Up With ‘Boy,’ 14 Middlesex Child Molester Gets 5 Years For Trying To Hook Up With ‘Boy,’ 14
Middlesex Child Molester Gets 5 Years For Trying To Hook Up With ‘Boy,’ 14 A convicted child molester from Middlesex County was sentenced to five years in state prison Friday for trying to lure a 14-year-old “boy” – actually an undercover detective -- to a local park for sex. Harold Gordner, 42, of Highland Park, admitted last September that he had sexually explicit chats and sent naked photos of himself, along with links to porn videos, to what turned out to be a New Jersey State Police investigator trolling social media for predators. Gordner, who already was registered as a Megan’s Law sex offender, “asked several times whether he could send a car service to pi…
Auto Body Repairman From Lyndhurst Charged With Trafficking Child Pornography Auto Body Repairman From Lyndhurst Charged With Trafficking Child Pornography
Auto Body Repairman From Lyndhurst Charged With Trafficking Child Pornography An auto body repairman from Lyndhurst was caught with hundreds of files of child pornography, dozens of which he shared, said authorities who arrested him. Cawley Hawkins, 30, remained held Wednesday in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest the day before. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said detectives from his Cyber Crimes Unit found that Hawkins “used the Internet to view, download, and possess approximately 223 digital files depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children” and shared 52 them. The files were found during a warranted search of his …
Two Sentenced In Jersey Shore Child Sex Sting Two Sentenced In Jersey Shore Child Sex Sting
Two Sentenced In Jersey Shore Child Sex Sting Two Ocean County men were sentenced to plea-bargained state prison terms for planning sexual encounters with underage teens who were actually police, authorities said. Volvi Lowinger and Brian Degnan were among 24 men nabbed in a "To Catch a Predator"-type sting dubbed “Operation Open House.” Lowinger, a 25-year-old student from Lakewood who worked at a dry cleaning business, was sentenced last Friday to four years in state prison by a Superior Court judge in Toms River after previously pleaded guilty to luring. Degnan, a 34-year-old data entry clerk from Toms River, was sentenced Tuesday …
Ridgefield Man Who Trafficked Child Porn Gets 5 Years, No Parole, In Federal Prison Ridgefield Man Who Trafficked Child Porn Gets 5 Years, No Parole, In Federal Prison
Ridgefield Man Who Trafficked Child Porn Gets 5 Years, No Parole, In Federal Prison A Ridgefield man must spend the next five years in federal prison for collecting and distributing videos and other images of child sex abuse. Because there's no parole in the federal prison system, Malcolm Salamanca, 29, will have to serve the entire term handed down Monday by U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in Newark. Salas also sentenced Salamanca to five years of supervised release and imposed a special assessment of $10,000 under the Justice for Victims of Human Trafficking Act. He’ll also have to register as a sex offender. Salamanca admitted in August using a peer-to-peer file-shar…
Local Mechanic Charged With Bergen Community College, Saddle Brook Business Bomb Threats Local Mechanic Charged With Bergen Community College, Saddle Brook Business Bomb Threats
Local Mechanic Charged With Bergen Community College, Saddle Brook Business Bomb Threats Authorities charged an 18-year-old mechanic from Saddle Brook with calling in bomb threats to Bergen Community College on Monday and a business in town last month -- neither of which they said ultimately were considered genuine. Nicholas Donnarumma, who isn't a student at BCC but apparently knows some, admitted making the calls when confronted by authorities, a law enforcement source told Daily Voice. Donnarumma was arrested Wednesday, processed at the Bergen County Jail on two counts each of making terroristic threats and causing a false public alarm and released pending a Dec. 4 hearing i…
Prosecutor: Northvale Man With Child Porn Stash Had Sex Chats, Got Pics From Underage Girls Prosecutor: Northvale Man With Child Porn Stash Had Sex Chats, Got Pics From Underage Girls
Prosecutor: Northvale Man With Child Porn Stash Had Sex Chats, Got Pics From Underage Girls A 23-year-old Northvale electrician created a bogus identity to have online sex chats with two underage girls whom he convinced to send him nearly two dozen “nude or sexually explicit” photos of themselves, authorities charged. Ronald S. “Ronnie” Rovito Jr. used the screen names “buyingnudes2019,” “whoop_w,” or “ncruzan,” Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Thursday. Detectives with Musella’s Cyber Crimes Unit raided Rovito’s parents’ Paris Avenue home on Wednesday and discovered that he’d “used the Internet to view, download, or possess approximately 390 digital files depicting nude…
Elmwood Park Man, 20, Charged With Having 18,806 Child Porn Files, Sharing 8,215 Elmwood Park Man, 20, Charged With Having 18,806 Child Porn Files, Sharing 8,215
Elmwood Park Man, 20, Charged With Having 18,806 Child Porn Files, Sharing 8,215 An unemployed Elmwood Park man was caught with 18,806 child pornography files, many of which he shared with others, authorities said. Justin K. Kinchen, 20, was taken into custody following a raid at his home in the Elmwood Terrace apartments, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Cyber Crimes Unit investigators found the trove of images “depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” Musella said, 8,215 of which he “used several social media and file-sharing applications to share with others.” Kinchen remained held Thursday in the Bergen County Jail pe…
Prosecutor: Lodi Drill Operator, 27, Had Sex Chats With Girls, Added Their Pics To 800 Others Prosecutor: Lodi Drill Operator, 27, Had Sex Chats With Girls, Added Their Pics To 800 Others
Prosecutor: Lodi Drill Operator, 27, Had Sex Chats With Girls, Added Their Pics To 800 Others RECOGNIZE HIS SCREEN NAME? Suspecting there may be more victims, authorities turned to the public after arresting a Lodi drill operator who they said had sex chats with two underage girls who gave him images for his child porn collection. Patrick W. Passenti, a 27-year-old drill operator who works in Kenilworth, remained free pending a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charges of possession and distribution of child pornography and child endangerment. Passenti shared 128 of the files he’d collected “depicting nude or sexually explicit prepubescent and pu…
Prosecutor: 5th Grade Teacher Had Dozens Of Child Porn Images Prosecutor: 5th Grade Teacher Had Dozens Of Child Porn Images
Prosecutor: 5th Grade Teacher Had Dozens Of Child Porn Images A Tenafly elementary school teacher was arrested by investigators who found five dozen child pornography images belonging to him stored on a cloud, authorities confirmed Friday. Pasquale Bernaldo-Antonelli, 42, remained held in the Bergen County Jail, charged with child endangerment by possessing and/or viewing images of child pornography and/or abuse following his arrest the day before by detectives from Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella's office. Cyber Crimes Unit investigators traced a child-porn complaint from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in January to…
Deadline To Register For River Vale Junior Police Academy: This Friday Deadline To Register For River Vale Junior Police Academy: This Friday
Deadline To Register For River Vale Junior Police Academy: This Friday Want to see a SWAT unit and bomb squad in action? Visit inmates at the county jail? See Metlife Stadium from behind the scenes? Time is running out to register for the 2019 River Vale Junior Police Academy: The deadline is this Friday, Oct. 4. Registration is ONLINE ONLY: www.RiverValeNJ.org The academy is open to River Vale residents in the 7th and 8th grades who will: learn about cyber crimes;  test your skills as an eyewitness;  participate in a mock airplane hostage rescue at the Federal Air Marshal service training center;  take a behind-the-scenes tour of MetLife …
Prosecutor: Wood-Ridge Man, 19, Gathered 600 Child Porn Files Prosecutor: Wood-Ridge Man, 19, Gathered 600 Child Porn Files
Prosecutor: Wood-Ridge Man, 19, Gathered 600 Child Porn Files A 19-year-old Wood-Ridge man collected 600 child porn images from the Dark Web, authorities charged. Jha Harezod remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail pending an Aug. 28 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said his Cyber Crimes Unit seized hundreds of files “depicting nude and/or sexually explicit prepubescent and pubescent children,” during a raid Wednesday at Harezod’s Johnson Drive home. He got them through a collection of websites on an encrypted network that can't be found using traditional search engines …
Ridgefield Man, 29, Admits Trafficking Child Porn Videos, Photos Ridgefield Man, 29, Admits Trafficking Child Porn Videos, Photos
Ridgefield Man, 29, Admits Trafficking Child Porn Videos, Photos A Ridgefield man admitted in federal court Friday that he collected and distributed videos and other images of child sex abuse. Malcolm Salamanca, 29, will have to serve the entire term when he’s sentenced Dec. 2 in U.S. District Court in Newark. There no parole in the federal prison system. He’ll also have to register as a sex offender. Salamanca admitted using a peer-to-peer file-sharing program to download and share the images, some of which undercover agents with the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations took from his computer during a November 2017 raid. U…