Tip Lands Capital Region Man In Jail On Child Porn Charges, Police Say
A man from the region is facing child pornography charges following a cyber tip to police, authorities said.
Albany County resident Jason Sammon, age 39, of Bethlehem, was arrested Thursday, May 4, days after troopers searched his home, according to New York State Police.
During their search, troopers reportedly uncovered evidence that Sammon possessed images “consistent with child sexual exploitation,” police said.
The investigation came after the agency received a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Sammon was arraigned at the Bethlehem Town Court on t…
Maryland Man Traveled To New York For 'Relationship' With 13-Year-Old Pennsylvania Girl: DA
A judge sentenced a man after confessing to committing sex crimes with a minor “as intentional, premeditated, and planned as you can get," Assistant Lancaster County District Attorney Fritz Haverstick says.
Mirza Ahmed, a 30-year-old from Catonsville, Maryland, began an "online relationship" turn real-life sexual relationship with a 13-year-old East Lampeter Township girl in 2020, the DA's office announced in a release on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023.
Ahmed traveled to New York and then to Columbia, PA to pick up the girl and take her to a room at the Spruce Lane Lodge and Co…
