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4Apr

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Should Juveniles Be Sentenced To Life?

America as I understand it is the only country in the world that sentences juveniles; that is those under the age of eighteen to life imprisonment without parole. This was challenged in court about ten years ago with the Supreme court stating it is unconstitutional to sentence minors to life without the possibility of parole. Teenagers are basically the same worldwide. They have the same kind of social, physical, and emotional issues to deal with, but their environment can make or break them. It is this environment which can be the determining factor in where they end up. If they are given the right encouragement and the right tools they can do amazing stuff which sets their life on the right track, however, stuff happens which see their hopes and dreams derailed. Teenagers all around th...

2May

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LAW ENFORCEMENT

Texas Man Sentenced to 58 Months for Darknet Fraud Scheme

A man from Texas was sentenced to 58 months in prison for stealing over 1,200 credit and debit card numbers. Odis Edwards, 40, used financial data obtained from the dark web to book hotel rooms around the Dallas area. Hotel staff first reached out to police after observing suspicious behavior from Edwards and his co-conspirators. More than $250,000 was spent for booking the rooms, some of which were sub-rented to pimps and drug dealers at a fraction of the original cost. The Police Raid Hotel staff noticed notified police that several large service bills were piling up, all charged to Edwards’ account. Police then raided the booked rooms, where they found notebooks with what appeared to be numbers from credit cards, altered credit cards and URLs of credit card generators. The raid res...

21Mar

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LAW ENFORCEMENT

Leader to an Elmira Dark Web Opioid Trafficking Ring Sentenced to Over 17 Years in Federal Prison

According to an announcement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of New York, a 31-year-old man from Elmira who, with a co-conspirator, headed an opioid dark web trafficking ring was sentenced to 17 years and six months in federal prison. The sentence was issued after the man was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribution of more than 100 grams of a fentanyl analogue. Authorities believe that at least two people died after consuming opioids sold by the man’s ring, while another overdosed on several occasions but survived after being treated. From 2015 to May 2017, Maximillian Sams, 31, and his partner, Robert Ian Thatcher, led an opioid manufacturing and distribution ring from Elmira, New York. Sams and Thatcher used the dark web to ...

14Mar

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Pair in Connecticut Sentenced for Selling Counterfeit Xanax & Steroids on the Dark Web

Jason Chen, a 34-year-old man in Norwich, Connecticut, pleaded guilty in a Hartford district court and received three years of probation for his position in scheming to manufacture fake Xanax pills and anabolic steroids, and use the dark web to sell the controlled substances. Furthermore, Chen likewise is to serve the initial three months of the judge’s ruling in house arrest. The fake Xanax pills and anabolic steroids were sold in AlphaBay, a dark web marketplace that was later seized in 2017. William Fusco, 34, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, also pleaded guilty to his role in the operation and was sentenced to 20 months in prison with three years of supervised release. Manufacturing Fake Xanax & Steroids According to the Department of Justice, Fusco planned to have the chemicals n...

8Jan

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Cyntoia Brown, sentenced to life at the age of 16, gets clemency

Brown, whose case drew national US attention, said she was a victim of child trafficking when she killed a man in 2004. Cyntoia Brown, enters her clemency hearing at Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville [File: Lacy Atkins/The Tennessean/AP Photo] Cyntoia Brown, who said she was a victim of child sex trafficking, was convicted of murder more than a decade ago and sentenced to life in prison. On Monday, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam granted the now 30-year-old clemency. Haslam, whose term ends in two weeks, said he would show mercy to Brown, whose case has attracted national attention, by releasing her on August 7. She will remain on parole for 10 years. Brown said in a statement that she will do everything to justify Haslam's faith in her and thanked he...

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...

Canadian Bus Driver Sentenced to 39 Months for Sharing Child Pornography

17Oct

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Canadian Bus Driver Sentenced to 39 Months for Sharing Child Pornography

During a recent hearing in a Canadian courtroom, Justice Allan Maclure sentenced a former member of the darkweb child abuse forum “Childs Play” to prison for 39 months. The man, a former school bus driver from London, had pleaded guilty to possessing, distributing, or creating child pornography at an earlier court appearance. The convicted pedophile received a significantly shorter prison sentence than expected due to both time served and to testimony from a therapist familiar with the case. According to evidence uncovered in an investigation conducted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the former bus driver had taken at least 176 pictures and videos of children on the bus he had driven for a London elementary school in Ontario, Canada. The man, known only as “Steps” to the public due ...

4Apr

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Cosby sentenced to 3-10 years, deemed ‘sexually violent predator’

Cosby was convicted in April of drugging and sexually assaulting one-time friend Andrea Constand in 2004. Actor and comedian Bill Cosby was sentenced to between three and 10 years in prison on Tuesday for sexually assaulting a woman more than a decade ago. Cosby was convicted in April of three counts of indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting his one-time friend Andrea Constand, a former Temple University administrator, at his Philadelphia home in 2004. Pennsylvania Judge Steven O'Neill also deemed Cosby a "sexually violent predator", meaning that he must undergo monthly counselling for the rest of his life and report quarterly to authorities. Cosby's name will appear on a sex-offender registry sent to neighbours, schools and victims. The actor was also fined $25,000. His la...

4Apr

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Two sentenced to prison for Charlottesville attack on black man

Jacob Scott Goodwin and Alex Ramos sentenced to eight and six years for beating of DeAndre Harris. Two men have been sentenced to prison for beating of a black man at a far-right rally in Charlottesville last year, local media reported. Jacob Scott Goodwin and Alex Ramos were sentenced to eight and six years respectively on Thursday for the beating of DeAndre Harris at the Unite the Right rally in August 2017. The confrontation took place after a friend of Harris attempted to take a Confederate flag away from one of the marchers. Pictures and a video of Harris's beating by a group of white nationalists were shared widely online, leading to attempts to identify the perpetrators. Harris, 20, suffered a spinal injury and a broken arm in the attack, which took place in a car park close to a ...

15Dec

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Cop Finally Gets His Due, Walter Scott’s Killer Sentenced To Prison

In America, we have been having a conversation about police brutality against black Americans. Despite the countless black people murdered unjustly by police, there is usually no justice. Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Keith Lamont Scott, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray…too many to mention here, really. All of those people were senselessly murdered by cops who chose to be their judges, juries, and executioners, and they did so with impunity and without consequence. However, there is hope, and it is coming out of South Carolina, of all places. North Charleston police officer Michael Slager murdered Walter Scott, a black man who was fleeing after a routine traffic stop in cold blood in 2015. He would have gotten away with it, too, had it not been for a citizen who was brave enough to tape the ...