Thursday, January 17, 2013
Here are the latest headlines from around the region.
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Thursday, January 17
3 Dead, Possible Murder-Suicide in Sandy Springs - Sandy Springs Patch Three people were found dead inside a home at 52 Brandon Ridge Drive near Brandon Mill and Abernathy Roads, just before 4 p.m., Wednesday. Sandy Springs Police say it may be a murder-suicide. Visit Sandy Springs Patch for more on this story. Smyrna, Mableton Men Indicted For Child Exploitation - Smyrna-Vinings Patch Two Cobb County men were indicted by a federal grand jury for child pornography charges stemming from their ordering and receiving videos containing child pornography from a foreign company, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. One of the offenders was a school bus driver, and the other one was a college instructor. Jerry Michael Lanier, 51, of Smyrna, …
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The defendant, who previously had been convicted as a sex offender, was given a 15-year federal prison term.
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
A Roswell man was given a 15-year sentence in federal prison today, Sept. 7, for distributing graphic images of child pornography over the Internet. U.S. District Court Judge Willis B. Hunt Jr. sentenced Mark Twain Heaton III, 40, of Roswell, to 15 years in prison, to be followed by 15 years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system. Heaton pleaded guilty on March 29, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office. Heaton, a previously convicted sex offender, was caught in an undercover investigation from December 2011 to January 2012. An FBI special agent made contact with the defendant using a publicly available peer-to-peer network. uring that session, court information stated Heaton made numerous …
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Defendant entered guilty plea to manufacturing sexually explicit images of neighborhood girls.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
A Johns Creek man was sentenced to federal prison and ordered to undergo treatment on charges he manufactured hundreds of sexually explicit images of more than two dozen underage girls from his neighborhood, where he superimposed photos of their faces onto pornographic images. Dirk LaPaglia, 53, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Orinda D. Evans to 6 years in federal prison to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, and ordered to undergo addiction therapy and treatment as available, as well as register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. He pleaded guilty to the charge Oct. 6, 2011. U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said, “This defendant’s disturbing criminal acts destroyed an entire community’s sense of trust…
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Alpharetta officer posed as 11-year-old child and mother to catch suspect, who has five girls of his own.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
An Ontario, Canada man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Monday, Aug. 1 for traveling to Atlanta to have sex with an 11-year-old girl, attempting to entice a child to engage in sexual activity, and possession of child pornography. United States District Court Judge James L. Graham, visiting from the Southern District of Ohio, sentenced Brian Schumaker, 54, of Mississagua, Ontario, Canada, according to Patrick Crosby, public affairs officer for the U.S. Attorney's Office of Northern Georgia. The case was investigated by agents with the FBI and the Alpharetta police department as part of Project Safe Childhood, according to Crosby's news release. U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said, “This is a particularly disturbing case of…
