The Bay County Sheriff’s Office reported on Monday that Operation Safe Child, a joint venture with several local and state agencies conducted between Sept. 15-18, resulted in the the arrest of 43 registered sex offenders.
The task force made surprise face-to-face visits to more than 300 registered sex offenders in Bay County during the four-day period. Those arrested have been charged with failure to register as a sex offender and violation of probation, among other charges, and several individuals with outstanding warrants also were taken in. The operation also led to the seizure of narcotics, drug paraphernalia, and a meth lab.
Among those arrested was Brian Nelms, 42, of 5664 E. Hwy. 98, Panama City Beach, who was wanted in Mobile, Ala., for sexual assault of a child under 12. During the operation, law enforcement received a tip Nelms was possibly in Bay County. Nelms was taken into custody without incident when located living with his girlfriend in an RV park.
A child porn-addicted ex-cop with a Batman fetish is now facing sex abuse charges after investigators discovered a video of him fondling a 7-year-old girl in his Florida home.
Juan Roman, a former Miami cop who called himself “Batman,” had been free on bond on child porn charges before he was re-arrested Saturday after investigators found the sickening clip on his computer, the Miami Herald reported.
The one-time detective was booked into Miami-Dade jail and ordered held without bail.
Police discovered the disturbing video on Roman’s hard drive on Thursday.
It appeared as though he’d set up a hidden camera in a bathroom of his Biscayne Bay home and then recorded himself molesting the child, the Herald reported.
Roman, 57, first caught notice of federal investigators last month when cyber-crime sleuths discovered he’d been trading child porn on his laptop.
He was arrested in late August, and police raided his home.
They later found more than 500 X-rated videos of young boys and girls on the machine.
He also appeared to have a sick sexual hang-up with the Caped Crusader.
One collection of pics showed him striking several different poses while wearing a Batman mask, cape and “Dark Knight”-themed underpants, the Herald said.
The creep, who has a Batman tattoo, even had a chilling nickname for the computer hard drive that harbored his child porn stash: the Batcave, the newspaper said.
Along with the child porn charges, Roman was now facing a rack of new counts, including lewd and lascivious molestation of a child.
Neighbors said they were disgusted by the new allegations.
“I always thought we were safe because we stay next to a cop,” one told NBC Miami.
A former Baxter Springs high school baseball coach faces a string a sex charges.
Larry Scott Madden was arrested just after midnight in Jasper County where he currently lives.
Madden is facing charges in cherokee county including 7 counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, 6 counts of indecent liberties with a child, one count of criminal sodomy and one count of indecent solicitation of a child.
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He’s facing extradition to Kansas.
Madden once served as Baxter Springs high school baseball coach and was the owner of the Hit Zone, a batting cage type business.
A mother witnessed a horrific sex crime taking place Thursday in Fort Myers resulting in the arrest of a 77-year-old convicted sex offender.
Alfredo Sanchez is charged with sexual assault by a person 18 years of age or older on a victim under the age of 12.
The mother told Lee County Sheriff’s investigators that she walked in and saw the sex crime taking place and immediately removed the 3-year-old victim and called law enforcement.
Investigators learned that the victim’s mother was at a residence when she noticed that the victim was missing. Upon looking for the victim, she encountered Alfredo Sanchez, partially naked and giving instructions to the three-year old victim on how to commit the sex act.
Alfredo Sanchez is a convicted sex offender, with previous convictions for lewd and lascivious act on a child Under the age of 16 in 1999 and failing to register as a sex offender in 2005.
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US authorities are searching for a Saudi scholarship student who went missing in Los Angeles last week.
Abdullah Abdullatif Alkadi, 23, was last seen at his residence on Wednesday, according to eyewitnesses.
All communication with Al-Qadi was reportedly lost on Thursday, according to information published by his brother, Ahmad Alkadi, on his personal Twitter account.
According to the Los Angeles Daily News, his brother told a local news agency that he went missing after selling his car. Police said they have located the vehicle and its new owner but found no link between the sale and Alkadi’s disappearance.
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“We have been in misery for the last two days,” Ahmed Alkadi told local news agencies. “We have tried everything. We called friends. We called relatives. We called everybody we knew and with no news. We are so worried about him.”
Abdullah’s last tweet, published on Sept. 15, read: “God make me happier, for I have suffered. Give me rest and don’t disappoint me, for you are my Lord.”
The search is in full swing on social media sites. Police also published a recent photo of Alkadi on its website, with a description stating that Abdullah is of Middle Eastern origin, weighs 110 pounds, has black hair and brown eyes and was wearing a blue shirt and blue jeans at the time of his disappearance.
Abdullah’s brother has also appealed for help on Twitter to find his missing brother.
“Please pray for my brother, who has been missing in LA,” he wrote, urging anyone with information to contact him.
A group of Saudi scholarship students in the United States, meanwhile, have launched a campaign of their own on social media websites in search of Abdullah, who is a student at California State University at Northridge.
Police have called on anyone who has any information about Abdullah’s whereabouts to contact the missing person’s unit at the LAPD.
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Wallar is a 5-foot-9, 250-pound white woman, with brown hair and hazel eyes, police said. She was last seen wearing black yoga pants, a burgundy sweater, purple framed glasses and was carrying a black purse.
Anyone with information should contact Glen Ellyn police at (630) 469-1187.
Yolanda Samaniego’s photo is still posted just across the street from the spot where her burned body was found earlier in the week. Police believe they know who’s responsible for her death.
“We received a call to the 911 center from a Marvin Rivera-Montalvo who stated he had info regarding the death of Yolanda Samaniego,” said Det. Alvaro Zabaleta of the Miami-Dade Police Department.
Samaniego’s family said she left her job at a Northwest Miami-Dade printing company about 2:30 a.m. Saturday September 13th.
Marvin Rivera-Montalvo, 30, was a coworker and a family member said the two had been partners at work for the past two years.
Police said detectives spoke to Rivera-Montalvo after he called 911 claiming to have information.
“He stated Mrs. Samaniego’s husband had killed her,” said Det. Zabaleta. “As they continued in the interview Rivera- Montalvo confessed that he and other unknown individuals planned to murder Mrs. Samaniego…. On the 13th, he then lured her to his vehicle and then one of the other subjects shot her is what he claimed to the investigator. He then stated he went to a local hotel to prepare how to dispose of the body.”
Police said Rivera-Montalvo confessed he dumped his co-worker’s body in this brush along the side of the road in an open field located at N.W. 64th Street and N.W. 82nd Avenue the same night of September 13th.
“Several days later, September 17th is when he returned back to the location where Mrs. Samaniego’s body was at and he lit her corpse on fire,” said Det. Zabaleta.
Later that day, officials discovered her body after receiving a call about a brush fire in the area.
“In my heart, he don’t do it,” said Rivera-Montalvo’s father.
David Rivera wouldn’t open the door for CBS4’s Maggie Newland, but told her he can’t believe his son is responsible for the murder.
“I don’t believe it,” he said. “I don’t believe it, he’s a very quiet person he wouldn’t do anything like that he goes to church he’s a good man.”
Rivera-Montalvo’s father was out of town for the past week and just learned about his son’s arrest.
He said he spoke to his son by phone Thursday, the day after Samaniego’s body was found, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
“He is a fine man and I know in my heart that whatever happening right now he’s – nothing is true.”
Once detectives said Rivera-Montalvo confessed, they arrested and booked him on Saturday morning for one charge of first degree murder.
Rivera-Montalvo is being held without bond, according to the department of corrections website.
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Investigators said a body found Thursday in a 55-gallon drum at a storage facility in Plymouth Township is that of a 22-year-old Warren woman missing since June, and Warren police said her boyfriend is the prime suspect in her disappearance.
Police Chief Jere Green said the body is of Theresa DeKeyzer and was identified through tattoos, earrings and the clothing she was wearing in a photo that was taken when she was the victim of domestic violence June 15.
Mary Mazur, a spokeswoman for the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office, confirmed this afternoon that the body is that of a decomposed female and that an autopsy is under way. She said that this weekend a forensic dentist would compare the teeth to dental records in an effort to formally identify the remains.
A post on the Facebook page of DeKeyzer’s sister, Leah, stated the family received confirmation that DeKeyzer had been found.
“We have suffered a terrible loss and we appreciate all of the love, prayers, and support during this time,” according to the post, which asked the news media to respect the family’s privacy and let them “grieve in peace.”
“Theresa, hug dad for me,” read a post on the Facebook page for DeKeyzer’s sister, Sandra. “I wish I could’ve said goodbye to either of you. Rest in paradise my love.”
Police had issued a news release this morning mentioning the discovery of the barrel and detailing the search for the missing woman.
Warren police executed a search warrant Thursday at Travel Trailer Storage on Ann Arbor Road, finding a body inside a barrel that was believed to be folded in a somewhat fetal position and wrapped in plastic. On top of the body, there was a plug or cap made of several inches of cement, with everything covered with plastic and wrapped with duct tape, Warren police said.
Warren Police said the barrel and its contents were taken to the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office. A cause of death has not been determined, Warren police said.
Leah DeKeyzer, a sister of DeKeyzer, told the Detroit News that Warren police notified her family of the discovery.
A post on the Facebook page of DeKeyzer’s sister, Sandra, earlier today said that she was “holding out hope still that this is a false alarm — feeling broken.”
“What I do know is this is a nightmare, no matter what the outcome,” according to one of her earlier posts. She filed a later update that read: “Whether it’s you or not, I will never stop fighting.”
There is some discrepancy in the reports of when Theresa (Tree) DeKeyzer was last seen. A pair of missing-person flyers indicate she was last seen about 6 a.m. June 16 after being dropped off and the last call from her cell phone was at 9:30 a.m. that day.
Warren Police, however, followed up on a number of reported sightings of DeKeyzer after June 16. In one instance, two employees at a medical marijuana dispensary in Detroit claimed that she had been there on June 23, although that lead “met with negative results.”
Police also said the last outgoing call from her cell was actually at 8:27 a.m. on June 16 from Detroit.
But on Thursday, after police received two separate tips, a Warren Police detective contacted Doris Temple, manager of the storage facility, saying he needed access to the locked location. Later in the day, police from departments that included Westland and Plymouth Township arrived.
Police were looking at an enclosed trailer “like you would put a car in,” she said, noting that the trailer was later removed.
“I’ve never had anything like this happen, and it’s kind of frightening for me,” Temple said.
Warren Police noted that DeKeyzer had reported being the victim of a domestic assault by her boyfriend, Scott Wobbe, 37, of Westland the evening before she disappeared. Wobbe later told investigators that the last time he saw DeKeyzer was at 6 a.m. June 16 when he had dropped her off at her request at Van Dyke and 9 Mile, which is just blocks from where the missing-person flyers said she was last seen. She was reported missing by her family three days later.
Wobbe was sentenced July 24 for violating his probation on charges in Midland County of resisting and obstructing a police officer and drug offenses from April, and is being held in the Midland County Jail.
Wobbe had been in Wayne County until July when he was arrested after Warren Police found drugs in his home after they went to talk to him about a domestic violence incident, according to Russ Marlan, a spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections.
On July 2, investigators went to Wobbe’s job in Garden City to interview him and arrested him on charges out of Midland County. The same day, police searched Wobbe’s home in Westland and found evidence unrelated to DeKeyzer’s disappearance. In August, warrants were authorized charging Wobbe with drug offenses from July 2 in 18th District Court in Westland.
Temple recalled renting the storage spot to a man in June. She declined to provide his name but said the name was not Wobbe.
Green said that police are looking at at least one other person involved in the case.
Warren Police Detective Sgt. Stephen Mills said Wobbe and DeKeyzer dated on and off for almost three years. Neither Wobbe nor anyone else is charged in connection with DeKeyzer’s disappearance. Jurisdiction on the case has not been determined.
Green earlier said everything pointed to the body being DeKeyzer’s “which is sad. It would be worse if we never found her.”
Earlier today, DeKeyzer’s uncle, Ron DeKeyzer, said he was holding out hope. He said his niece worked a good, full-time job as a manager at a Tim Hortons, was a good and responsible person and a “beautiful young girl with her whole life ahead of her.”
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Eight months after a local mother vanished, her family is now increasing the reward offered for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for her disappearance.
Las Vegas police said they have no new leads in the disappearance of Irma Mkrtchyan, but her family believes there are people in the valley who know something about the crime.
The family is hoping by increasing the reward to $12,000, one of those people may finally talk.
“Please help us with any clues,” said Irma’s brother, Davit Mkrtchyan. “There is a dangerous offender in your town and we must stop him.”
Police transferred the case to the homicide bureau after interviewing numerous people connected with her disappearance.
Davit said anyone with information who is interested in receiving the reward, should call police immediately. You can do so anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers at (702) 385-5555.
