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3Jan

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Pedophile Sentenced to Eight Months in Prison for Downloading Child and Animal Porn

A pedophile in Berkshire, England, was sentenced for downloading more than 400 pictures and videos of child abuse from a site on the dark web. Law enforcement learned that the man had been viewing illegal content while on probation for previous child sexual abuse crimes. In 2015, a judge in Berkshire, England, sentenced Ben Keeler to several years on an extended sentence for sexually abusing a minor and possessing pictures of sexual child abuse. The sentence required Keeler to live at an Approved Premises (also known as a bail hostel). Approved Premises are the equivalent of halfway houses for offenders to live at before reintegrating with society. They also house some criminals on license. At the Approved Premises, offenders were not permitted to have or use cell phones. Keeler had eithe...

Dark Web Credit Card Cloners Steal Thousands from Behind Bars

18Dec

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Dark Web Credit Card Cloners Steal Thousands from Behind Bars

In a sting multi-agency operation headed by the Federal Burial of Investigation, a prolific credit card scammer who had siphoned thousands of dollars cash was uncovered. The scammer is reported to have perpetrated his heinous acts while he was behind bars. According to the Fed reports, the suspect is now serving a much lengthier sentence on top of what he was already serving. According to the documents handed over by the investigators, from 2014 up to 2016, the suspect, together with his conspirators, bought many credit card numbers from renowned Russian Hackers. They also acquired Fullz from Pakistani and Ukraine hackers on a regular basis. The suspect is also reported to be working closely with a restaurant attendant from Syracuse, who forwarded skimmed bank account numbers from custome...

4Apr

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How Funding Black Businesses Can Help Bridge the Racial Wealth Gap

The Runway Project is making entrepreneurship more accessible to Black communities. Richmond, California, native April Fenall didn’t grow up with aspirations of becoming an entrepreneur. But upon moving from Sacramento back to the Bay Area in 2015, she couldn’t find work. A past conviction—even though it had been expunged from her record—and severe scoliosis made it difficult to find gainful employment. So she became an entrepreneur out of necessity. “I wasn’t able to show up as my complete self,” Fenall said, referring to her struggle to integrate into the workforce. “And I made an assumption that other people were probably encountering the same thing, of having all of these different identities that make up a whole person but not being able to show up as that whole perso...

4Apr

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‘Appalling’ video shows NY police pulling baby from mother’s arms

Outrage over video showing NYPD officers violently yanking toddler from his mother's arms at Brooklyn food stamp office. [Screenshot of Facebook video posted by Monae Sinclari] A video showing police officers violently yanking a toddler from his mother's arms at a Brooklyn food stamp office last week prompted outrage, with public officials expressing horror and clients of the facility complaining it is indicative of how the city treats social-services recipients. A witness said a security officer confronted the woman, Jazmine Headley, who had sat on the floor of the crowded office for two hours because of a lack of chairs. Police were called when she refused to leave. The woman ended up lying face-up on the floor during a tug of war over the child. "The baby was screaming...

Incarcerated Pedophile Used a Dark Web Forum to Arrange a Rape in France

4Dec

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Incarcerated Pedophile Used a Dark Web Forum to Arrange a Rape in France

Not long after French law enforcement arrested the alleged owner of a dark web child exploitation forum that had been flying under the radar for years, investigators in France foiled a pedophile’s plan to have his own daughter kidnapped and raped by a member of another dark web forum for pedophiles. According to the French media outlet that broke the story about the investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that led to the arrest of the alleged dark web child pornography forum owner, cybercrime investigators working for the Judicial Police of Lyon spotted something that warranted a rapid response. These cybercrime investigators had been investigating pedophiles through various internet platforms. One of these platforms was a forum on the dark web dedicated to the discussion of ...

Teen Likely Headed to Prison for Supplying Ecstasy to His Friends

27Nov

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Teen Likely Headed to Prison for Supplying Ecstasy to His Friends

At Plymouth Crown Court, a judge warned a teenager who had supplied his friends with MDMA that he would likely receive a prison sentence at a sentencing hearing in November. The teen had previously admitted purchasing MDMA from a dark web vendor and giving it to two of his friends. Both friends fatally overdosed on the MDMA later that day. Charlie Gregory, 19, recently admitted supplying two of his friends with MDMA he had purchased for £56 on the dark web. He pleaded guilty to one count of possession of MDMA and four counts of supplying MDMA at Plymouth Crown Court during an October 2018 hearing. The charges stemmed from an event that took place almost one year ago at a Basshunter concert at a Plymouth nightclub called Pryzm. In December 2017, Gregory and seven of his friends traveled fr...

Darkweb Gun Vendor Recants Confession, Says Ex-wife Ran the Operation

27Nov

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Darkweb Gun Vendor Recants Confession, Says Ex-wife Ran the Operation

A man from North Rhine-Westphalia presented new details in the government’s case against him for selling firearms on dark web markets in Germany. Although he had originally admitted to committing the crimes listed in the indictment, the man has changed his story and implicated his former wife in the alleged dark web gun trafficking operation. The claims, although seemingly ridiculous, may have been an accurate portrayal of the operation, according to a Customs Investigator who testified at a recent appeal hearing at the Regional Court of Cologne. The man, a 33-year-old attorney from Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, had originally confessed to several violations of Germany’s Weapons and Explosives Act. Earlier this year, at the District Court Bergheim, the attorney gave the court ...

13Nov

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Chloe Ayling to Testify in Second “Black Death Group” Kidnapping Case in Italy

Lawyers in Italy have called for Chloe Ayling, the victim of kidnappers who wanted to sell her on the darkweb, to testify against one of her suspected kidnappers at an upcoming hearing in Milan. The defendant’s legal team has pointed to several inaccuracies in the victim’s story and hopes that questioning her in court will help clear their client’s name. Ayling, 21, caught the media’s attention last year after she revealed that multiple men from a human trafficking group had kidnapped her in Milan, Italy, after luring her to Italy for a fake modeling gig. The human traffickers, she said, had called themselves the “Black Death Group”. According to statements she gave to the police after one week in captivity, the so-called “Black Death Group” had operatives spread across the globe who kidn...

4Apr

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‘Whites don’t shoot whites’: 2 black people shot dead in Kentucky

Prosecutors say shooting that left two African Americans dead in the US state is being probed as possible hate crime. Gregory Bush, 51, has been charged with two counts of murder and 10 counts of wanton endangerment [Scott Utterback/Courier Journal via AP Photo] Moments after allegedly killing two African Americans at a supermarket in the US state of Kentucky, 51-year-old Gregory Bush reportedly muttered to a white bystander, "Whites don't kill whites." Bush, who is white, has been charged with two counts of murder and 10 counts of wanton endangerment, and a judge set his bail at $5m on Thursday. A federal prosecutor said on Friday that the shooting is being investigated as a possible hate crime. US Attorney Russell Coleman said federal investigators are invest...

Saudi Man Admits Paying for “Sadistic” Child Pornography with Cryptocurrency

17Oct

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Saudi Man Admits Paying for “Sadistic” Child Pornography with Cryptocurrency

In a court in the Eastern District of Virginia, a Saudi national admitted downloading child abuse content from a darkweb platform that provided illegal content to paying members. The announcement, published on the Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs’ website, highlighted the fact that the defendant had “paid cryptocurrency” to access this darkweb platform in search of illegal pictures and videos. The case, brought to the attention of law enforcement agencies by Project Safe Childhood, is one of only a small number of cases involving child abuse platforms with a membership fee payable in cryptocurrency. These forums, chat rooms, imageboards, and and similar content distribution sites have often presented a barrier of entry for law enforcement by requiring members or users to upl...