As Northern Virginia's Loudoun County continues to be plagued by a sex scandal, where a now 15-year old boy was able to rape classmates throughout the district, the district is
The Loudoun County teen male charged with sexual assault at two separate high schools was originally sentenced to register as a sex offender receiving a black mark on his record for life but a judge recently reversed her decision on that.
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State police say convicted sex offenders are being targeted, threatened in new phone scam
In this operation, caller poses as authority to harass and threaten arrest if payments are not made using online account transactions or e-gift cards
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The Virginia State Police issued the latest of its be-on-the-lookout warnings for telephone scams Wednesday, but this time, the audience being targeted is convicted sex offenders.
State police said the scammers apparently are getting contact information from the Virginia Sex Offender Registry and calling the convicted offenders threatening them with possible arrest and coercing them into paying hundreds of dollars in gift cards or other types of online transactions to the caller as a means of paying fines.