Related News: Fourth Opp woman charged with child sex crime

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A fourth woman was arrested in an ongoing investigation into sex crimes involving minors in Opp.

According to the Opp Police Department, Chelsea Alexandria Calhoun, 20, was arrested Tuesday and charged with rape in the second degree. Her bond was set at $200,000.

Three other women in the small town have been arrested on child sex crime charges since Jan. 24.

Source: WSFA

Related News: Teen killed classmate and uploaded ‘selfie’ with the body to Snapchat, police say

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A Pennsylvania teenager has been accused of murdering a classmate and posing with the victim’s body for a “selfie,” according to news reports.

Authorities say 16-year-old Maxwell Marion Morton of Jeannette, Pa., fatally shot 16-year-old Ryan Mangan in the face before taking a photo with Mangan’s body and uploading it to Snapchat, a smartphone application that allows users to send images that are deleted a few seconds after they’re received, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Morton sent the image  to a friend, who saved it on his phone before it was deleted, according to Fox News. The friend showed the photo to his mother, who turned the image over to police, according to Fox News.

Source: MSN

Related News: Samsung’s warning: Our Smart TVs record your living room chatter

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. CNET published an article titled Samsung’s warning: Our Smart TVs record your living room chatter.

Why worry about Big Brother?

It’s your big Samsung TV that’s watching you. Oh, and listening to you.

That seems to be the conclusion from reading the privacy small print offered by the company. (Samsung’s motto: TV has never been this smart.)

It concerns the voice-recognition feature, vital for everyone who finds pressing a few buttons on their remote far too tiresome.

Source: CNET

Related News: Blount County teacher indicted for kissing, spending the night with student

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. AL.com published an article titled Blount County teacher indicted for kissing, spending the night with student.

A Blount County high school teacher is under arrest after authorities say he had an inappropriate relationship with a female student.

A grand jury indicted Matthew Shane Wester, 37, on one count of a teacher have sexual contact with a student. Wester, a math teacher and coach at Cleveland High School, was placed on paid leave in November 2014 amid the allegations. School officials today said he remains on leave pending the outcome of the criminal case.

Source: AL.com

Related News: Selma football coach accused of having sexual relationship with student

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A Selma football coach is accused of engaging in sexual acts with a student, according to police.

Eric Dale Martinear, 28, was arrested today and charged with school employee engaging in sex act with student under the age of 19 and electronic solicitation of a child, Selma police say.

Source: AL.com

Related News: Two men plead guilty to child solicitation

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. The Dothan Eagle published an article titled Two men plead guilty to child solicitation.

Two men will now be convicted sex offenders after they pleaded guilty to soliciting children over the Internet during an undercover Hartford police investigation called Operation Guardian Angel.

A former health care official, 59-year-old Michael Lee Graue, pleaded guilty Thursday morning to felony electronic solicitation of a child in front of Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Quattlebaum.

As part of a guilty plea agreement, Graue received a 6-year prison sentence. He applied for probation through his attorney, Thomas Smith, which will be heard by the court on March 5.

Source: Dothan Eagle

Related News: City fire captain accused of installing spy gear to produce child porn

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. Ars Technica published an article titled City fire captain accused of installing spy gear to produce child porn.

A small-town California fire captain resigned Wednesday, days after his arrest on allegations connected to the clandestine installation of spy gear to video record a minor in the bathroom.

Mark McLeod Wygant, the former fire captain of South Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains, is also said to have possessed as many as 100 videos of the young girl, who was 12, according to court documents (PDF). The defendant, who is being held without bail, installed as many as four spy cameras “for the purpose of recording her nude from multiple angles,” the FBI said in an affidavit.

Source: Ars Technica

Related News: Death threat hacker who fooled police is jailed

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. BBC News published an article titled Death threat hacker who fooled police is jailed.

A hacker who hijacked computers to make death threats has been jailed for eight years.

Yusuke Katayama played a game of cat and mouse with the authorities, leading them to make numerous wrongful arrests.

He threatened a massacre at a comic book event, as well as to attack a school attended by the grandchildren of Japan’s Emperor Akihito.

Katayama’s campaign highlighted the difficulties the country’s police force has had in dealing with cyber crime.

Source: BBC News

Related News: Facebook porn: Malware warning over video

One new article link has been added to our Related News page. BBC News published an article titled Facebook porn: Malware warning over video.

The latest threat to users involves a fake Flash Player update which pops up during a preview of a pornographic video.

Once you click on the link to update your video player, malware (the name given to malicious software), downloads onto your computer.

This Trojan horse software gives the creator of the malware remote access to your computer.

They can then download viruses onto your computer.

Source: BBC News

Related News: Opp woman arrested on child sex crimes charges

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An Opp woman has been arrested in an ongoing child sex crimes investigation.

Mandi Brianna Harrison, 25, of Opp, was arrested Friday and charged with rape second degree and sodomy second degree, according to a news release from the Opp Police Department.

Police opened an investigation after receiving a report of a woman having sexual contact with a child. The victim is a child under the age of 16, according to police.

Source: WSFA