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BRICK - A township man was sentenced to 40 years in prison after he admitted to producing images of himself engaging in sexual acts with an infant and a newborn, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey said.
Sebastian Attar, 36, had previously pleaded guilty in 2019 to two counts of sexual exploitation of children and one count of advertising child pornography, authorities said. He was sentenced in a Trenton federal court Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Peter G. Sheridan.
Around mid-2017, investigators explored an internet chat group named Taboo Train 2.0, which involved the exchange of photos and videos of child sex abuse, authorities said.
N.J. man who photographed himself sexually abusing infants gets 40 years in prison
Updated May 13, 2021;
A New Jersey man who took pictures of himself sexually abusing two infants has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
Sebastien Attar, 36, of Brick, previously pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of children and one count of advertising child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey.
Attar went by the name of “Seb Seb” in an online chat group that shared images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children, federal prosecutors said.
The chat group came on the radar of investigators in mid-2017, months before federal authorities executed a search warrant at Attar’s home in March 2018.
Woman admits she got $200K in iPhones by faking insurance claims, authorities say
Updated 12:41 PM;
A 39-year-old woman admitted she posed as legitimate customers to obtain more than $200,000 in iPhones over a three-plus year period.
Rosanna Lucrecia Cruel Blanco of the Bronx, New York, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey said.
Blanco and her unnamed co-conspirators put the scheme into play by first assuming the identities of customers to purchase handset insurance on an existing account from a Nashville, Tennessee company, officials said.
Once the insurance was activated Blanco and her associates filed false claims asserting the phone was either lost, stolen or damaged and then asked for new phones.
Pair stole hundreds of checks from mailboxes in front of homes in N.J., Connecticut, feds say
Updated 12:21 PM;
Two New York men have been charged in a theft ring that stole nearly 300 checks worth more than $1.3 million from mailboxes in New Jersey and Connecticut before altering them and depositing them into accounts they controlled, authorities said.
Nigel Lynch, 19, of Yonkers and Alique Jordan Clarke, 20, of the Bronx each face up to 30 years in federal prison if convicted of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey said in a statement.
Lynch, Clarke and others swiped checks from mailboxes in Morris, Essex, Somerset, and Passaic counties, including many from in front of people’s homes between February and November 2020, prosecutors allege.