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MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) – Police have confirmed a Montgomery man has been arrested on a charge relating to sex abuse of a child under the age of 12.
According to the Montgomery Police Department, 38-year-old Andrew Bartels was arrested on October 26 and charged with one count of sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12.
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One new article link has been added to our Related News page. WSFA published an article titled Montgomery Sheriff’s name used in Internet so-called “scam”.
Marshall says the scammers are calling victims, posing as the Montgomery County Sheriff. They threaten them with an arrest warrant, unless they send money. Marshall says the mindset is easy to recognize, “They instill fear in this people. I don’t want to be arrested, so I better send money.”
Corporal Kenneth Gordon is investigating the so-called scam for the Sheriff’s Office. Gordon puts it simply, “It’s a scam, it’s been a scam since the beginning.”
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A 31-year-old Montgomery, Alabama man is facing new criminal charges in connection with an online sextortion plot that investigators believe now spans the globe.
Christopher Patrick Gunn was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Montgomery with two counts of production of child pornography, three counts of interstate extortion, and three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce in furtherance of unlawful activity.
Those indictments are in addition to the two counts of possession of child pornography with which he had already been charged, U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr., explained.
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Alabama Computer Forensics Institute 