Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Border Patrol agent was sentenced Monday to more than three years in prison on charges of stealing government property and possessing child pornography, San Diego 6 News reports. Rodolfo Zuniga, 34, was assigned to the Border Patrol’s Imperial Beach, Calif., station between November 2009 and March 2010 when feds say…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com When it comes to child pornography, the suspects are almost always men. But ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations special agents are searching for a woman who produced a child pornography video that depicts her engaging in explicit sex with a 4-to-5-year-old victim, the Daily Mail reports. The woman is believed to be between…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Missouri man was so spooked by an Internet scam that he tipped off police about child porn on his computer, the Springfield News-Leader reports. Police say the unnamed man, who is now under investigation, panicked when he received an alert that the FBI wanted $200 to unlock his computer to search…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The former head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Southern Florida was sentenced Friday to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison on a child pornography charge. The Sun-Sentinel newspaper reported that Anthony Mangione, 52, pleaded guilty in July to e-mailing child pornography to a former school bus…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The former special agent in charge of ICE’s South Florida office is set to be sentenced today on a child pornography charge, WPTV reports. Anthony Mangione, who was a leading crusader against child pornography, faces a mandatory sentence of at least five years in prison, according to WPTV. Authorities recently said they…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A musician who became famous on YouTube is banned from using the Internet after he was arrested at his home in New York on charges that he coaxed two underage girls to send him sexually explicit photos and videos, the Daily Mail reports. Michael Lombardo, 23, is accused of enticing a 14-year-old…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former top U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official accused of looking at images of minors having sex pleaded guilty Friday to federal pornography charges, The Associated Press reports. A 27-year veteran of ICE, Anthony Mangione, 51, ran the agency’s South Florida operations from 2007 to 2011 and helped investigate child…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Dominick Pelletier was not expecting prison time when he went looking for a job at the FBI. But he got it. The 34-year-old suburban Chicago resident applied with the bureau as an intelligence analyst in August of 2008, according to the Daily Herald, but after taking a routine polygraph test he…
