Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Wisconsin Department of Justice let at least 43 tips about suspected child pornography languish for four months or longer, compromising the investigations and keeping children in harm’s way, an internal investigation determined. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the number could be a lot higher, revealing a major lapse in judgment…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol recruit taking a polygraph test for a job failed miserably. So much so, according to CBS 8, a search warrant has been filed in San Diego County after he admitted to possessing child porn. The 22-year-old man, whose identity was not released, told authorities he possessed 14 images of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI analyst was sentenced to more than three years in prison Monday for possessing child pornography, The Washington Post reports. Keith Dietterle, 28, who admitted to sending a pornographic image to an undercover officer, was nabbed in an undercover sting in November. Dietterle was busted after communicating through a social…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Homeland Security supervisor who has been suspended pleaded guilty Monday to possession of child pornography in U.S. District Court in Buffalo, The Buffalo News reports. Steven Metz, 41, faces up to 10 years in prison after he was busted with more than 600 images and videos of child porn on his…
Steve Nevling ticklethewire.com A 21-year-old man fell for an Internet virus that claimed he owed a fine for looking at child porn. When Jay Matthew Riley went to a local police department to pay his fine, he was arrested on multiple charges of child porn, accruing to the Prince William County Police Department, ABC 7…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has disseminated child porn as part of a controversial, unorthodox sting in western Washington state. After seizing a child pornography service last year, Nebraska-based agents decided to continue operating the service to catch users, the Seattle Post Intelligencer reports. According to the newspaper, the bureau kept the service open for…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI agent who worked on high-profile cases has reached a plea deal with prosecutors who accuse him of possessing and distributing child pornography, the Associated Press reports. In the deal, 54-year-old Donald J. Sachtleben agreed to pay $20,000 in restitution to the victim. A judge must still approve the plea…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former FBI analyst accused of distributing child pornography to an undercover cop in Washington D.C. pleaded guilty Wednesday. Keith Dietterle, 28, faces 97 to 121 months and a fine of up to $250,000 after pleading guilty to possession of child porn. A task force of FBI agents and local police arrested…
