Sextortion arrest: Bensalem man used social media to harass, extort girls, authorities say
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BENSALEM, Pa. - A Bucks County man is facing a long list of charges for his alleged role in multiple sextortion cases they say targeted young women and minors as young as 12.
Bensalem Township police say their investigation begin in Oct. 2020 when they received a report that a juvenile was harassed and threatened via Snapchat. Police say an unknown subject had threatened to post naked pictures of the girl if she did not send more naked pictures to him.
In Feb. 2021, Snapchat provided a specific IP address that they say was used by the subject in that case and traced it back to a residence on the 3600 block of Skyline Drive in Bensalem Township.
President Joe Biden on Friday
revoked a controversial executive order that former President Donald Trump signed last summer that targeted Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Trump’s executive order directed a section of the Commerce Department to petition the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to “clarify” Section 230. Trump signed the order after Twitter fact-checked several of his tweets.
The former president
became fixated on the law, which shields all websites from being liable for what users post on them, as his presidency ended.
The executive order was
faced a lawsuit from a consumer advocacy group that argued it was unconstitutional.
Langhorne man gets prison for assault on Bucks County prison cellmate
A Langhorne man will spend up to four years in state prison for assaulting his cellmate in Bucks County Prison early last year.
On Thursday, Javier Blanco, 24, pleaded guilty to assaulting his cellmate, causing a brain bleed in January 2020, according to Manuel Gamiz Jr., spokesman for the Bucks County District Attorney s Office.
Blanco was sentenced to two to four years in state prison, as well as two years of probation, Gamiz said. Judge Diane Gibbons accepted the plea.
Bucks County Corrections and county detectives jointly filed charges stating Blanco assaulted his 68-year-old cellmate on Jan. 3, 2020.
Warminster allowed a former police officer accused last month of sexually abusing four boys he met on the job to quietly retire in 2009 with a “work-related disability” and collect more than $180,000, plus a monthly pension.
James Christopher Carey, 53, of Cape May Court House, New Jersey, received an “honorable discharge” under the 2009 settlement, which allowed him to receive work-related disability benefits.
The revelation of the retirement deal became public following Carey’s arrest last month on more than 100 counts of child sex abuse charges, as well as charges of official oppression following a lengthy Bucks County Detectives investigation and inquiry by a Bucks County Investigating Grand Jury.