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A wanted man in Autauga County took to his Facebook page to taunt police, and his updates helped land him behind bars.

Sheriff Herbie Johnson says it all started when 24-year-old Marc Tarantino didn’t show up to his sentencing on burglary and theft charges in Autauga County court, and warrants were issued for his arrest.

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Related News: Hartford PD: Sexual predator operation a success

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One Wiregrass police department is taking to the internet to fight crime.

The Hartford Police Department is working along side Perverted Justice, a non profit organization, to catch online sex predators before they strike.

“Basically when they start talking or texting with someone on a website, and it turns sexually explicit or goes into the predator wanting to have sex or meet the child for sex, they will contact us,” said Lt. Tim Goad.

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Investigators said he had sexual contact with at least eight high school girls over a period of three years while working in Brewton.

Police said Gainous confessed to tying up the girls and gagging them in the sex acts at the school band room and at his home.

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Related News: Hartford police make child enticement arrest

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A Slocomb man faces felony charges alleging he enticed who he believed was a 15-year-old girl for an unlawful sex act.

Assistant Hartford Police Chief Ben Berry said Hartford police arrested 24-year-old Justin Colby Hutton on Friday, and charged him with felony electronic solicitation of a child and felony traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act.

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Related News: Camera in girl’s bedroom leads to Dothan man’s arrest

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Dothan police say a 54-year-old man set up video surveillance in the bedroom of an 18-year-old girl during which time he recorded images of her in the nude.

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Related News: Google Street View Images Catch Robbery Suspects In The Act 3 Years Later

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Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two armed thieves who allegedly ransacked a woman’s home in 2011. They got away with the crime at the time, but were just spotted outside the home in images courtesy of Google Street View.

The two alleged robbers were inadvertently captured in Google Street View images casually walking down the street prior to the July 2011 armed intrusion into a woman’s Oklahoma City home, KFOR-TV reports. The woman, who is still shaken by the incident and asked to remain anonymous, says she walked into her ransacked home and the two alleged criminals held her at gunpoint for over an hour.

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Related News: Army soldier charged with child solicitation

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Hartford police made their second arrest within a three-day period as part of an ongoing child solicitation investigation called Operation Guardian Angel.

Assistant Hartford Police Chief Ben Berry said police arrested Jabier Martinez, 26, of Dothan, Friday night, and charged him with two sexual assault-related felony charges.

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Related News: Sex offender charged with living too close to daycare

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Dothan police arrested a convicted sex offender Wednesday for allegedly moving too close to a local day care business.

Court records show Dothan police arrested Hakimsaid Fararhd Darby, 51, of Seminary Road, and charged him with three felony violations of the Alabama community notification act.

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Related News: Dothan man arrested in child solicitation investigation

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The Dothan Police Department has arrested a man in connection with a child solicitation investigation.

After a brief investigation, police arrested 42-year-old Rodney Reese, on Wednesday, when he arrived at a designated location where he thought he was meeting a 14-year-old female.

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Related News: Police: Teenage girls use knife to force autistic boy to perform sex acts

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A news release from the department said the girls also kicked the boy in the groin and dragged him by his hair. They also got him to walk onto a partially frozen pond. When the boy fell through several times, they made him get out each time by himself, police said.

Detectives found videos on the girls’ cell phones.

Source: CNN