One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Prattville Pastor arrested on child porn charges.

Myers, the Pastor of the Prattville Community Church on Fifth Street has been charged with five counts of possession of child pornography. Each count carries a bond amount of $75,000 – totaling $375,000 in all.

Source: WSFA

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The US Department of Justice published an article titled Six Individuals Indicted for Tax Fraud and Identity Theft Schemes in Alabama.

Three separate indictments were returned by a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama charging six different individuals on a variety of charges stemming from tax fraud and identity theft schemes, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.

Source: US Department of Justice

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. NorthEscambia.com published an article titled Three Alabama Men Indicted For Sex Crimes Involving Young Girls.

Three young men from Flomaton are out of jail and awaiting trial after being indicted by an Escambia County Grand Jury for sex crimes involving underage girls.

Source: NorthEscambia.com

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Montgomery Advertiser published an article titled Conference focuses on cyber security.

At the Air Force Information Technology Conference on Monday, Airman 1st Class Matthew Miyake was armed with a laptop.

On a flat-screen monitor, Miyake brought up the webpage for a mock bank, “Hacme Bank.” With a few mouse clicks, Miyake showed passersby how a hacker might get customers’ information from an ill-prepared site. It was an interesting, if not unsettling, display.

The job of Miyake’s unit, Application Software Assurance Center of Excellence at Maxwell Air Force Base, Gunter Annex, is to teach other programmers within the Air Force how to be more secure, Miyake said.

Source: Montgomery Advertiser

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled ‘Anonymous’ suspect in Alabama among 14 arrested by FBI in PayPal cyber attack.

 A person in Alabama was among 14 people arrested today by FBI agents on charges related to their alleged involvement in a cyber attack on PayPal’s website as part of an action claimed by the Wikileaks sympathizers group known as “Anonymous,” the U.S. Department of Justice and  FBI announced today. 

Two additional defendants were arrested on cyber-related charges.

Source: AL.com

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Ala. AG wants proof website is fighting human trafficking.

In a letter to the online classified site’s lawyers, the attorneys general say that Backpage.com claims it has strict policies to prevent illegal activity, but “hundreds of ads found on Backpage.com’s regional site are clearly for illegal services.”

“It does not require forensic training to understand that these advertisements are for prostitution,” the attorneys general wrote. 

Source: WSFA

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Macon Co. parents outraged over alleged Facebook death threat.

The Macon County school system may have its first case of extreme cyber-bullying as there’s news of an alleged death threat.

Source: WSFA

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Slap Out man arrested for child porn and castration photos.

Residents in the Jordan Trace subdivision just off Holtville Road know each other fairly well.

But they also say you can never be too careful.

“It’s concerning because I have a 10-year old daughter that lives near someone who just got arrested for pornography,” says Tara Walker.

Source: WSFA

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled DOJ: Huntsville man involved in international child porn ring.

Operation Delego, an ongoing investigation launched in December 2009, targeted the 72 defendants and more than 500 other individuals around the world for their participation in Dreamboard, a private, members only, online bulletin board.

According to the Department of Justice, Dreamboard was created and operated to promote pedophilia and encourage the sexual abuse of children under the age of 12. It was also designed to avoid law enforcement detection.

Source: WSFA

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled New teacher-student sex charge actively used across Alabama.

Alabama legislators passed the law in July 2010, which made it a felony crime for a school employee to engage in a sex act with a student. The class B felony crime comes with a punishment of two to 20 years in prison, if convicted.

With two pending criminal cases in the Wiregrass Houston County District Attorney Doug Valeska and Pike County District Attorney Tom Anderson say the new charge will help provide more protection to older students who have been victimized.

Source: Dothan Eagle