Crime What is It and who investigates what
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In the United States, the justice system is large, local and sometimes handed down from Washington, DC.
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Internet predators and a multijurisdictional approach between the FBI and local police
Man Arrested in FBI Sex Sting
Little League coach and preschool assistant director accused of arranging to meet 14-year-old boy.
By Michael Lee Pope
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Friends and co-workers at A Child’s Place said they were devastated to learn that their longtime colleague was arrested for enticing a minor last month. Court records show that Eric Mintzer, 27, was arrested on Feb. 26 after he allegedly arranged to have sex with a 14-year-old boy. According to the complaint, a Fairfax County detective acting in an undercover capacity as part of a multi-jurisdictional Federal Bureau of Investigation task force had assumed the online identity of an actual 14-year old boy from a prior investigation.
If convicted, Mintzer could face a mandatory minimum of 10 years in federal prison.
“We never saw anything inappropriate,” said A Child’s Place director Jill Levy, whose two sons were coached by Mintzer in the Fort Hunt Little League. “We socialized with him and celebrated birthdays with him, so this was a total shock.”
Officials at A Child’s Place said Mintzer started working part time at the preschool in 1997. Three years ago he became assistant director of the Holin Halls facility, which is located on Shenandoah Road. His employer described his performance evaluations as excellent, and they completed all the necessary criminal background checks necessary before hiring Mintzer. They say no evidence has emerged to indicate that any of the students attending A Child’s Place were part of the investigation leading to his arrest.
“Nobody had any indication that anything like this was occurring,” said the preschool’s executive administrator Julie Lee, who has known Mintzer since 1999. “He was well liked and he did a good job.”
According to a sworn affidavit from Metropolitan Police Department Detective Jonathan Andrews, the undercover Fairfax detective posing as the 14-year-old boy received a Yahoo instant message from Mintzer on Feb. 25 that initiated a four-hour chat session. During the discussion, Mintzer described himself as a 27-year-old male who was 6’2″ and weighing 215 pounds. The detective described himself as a 14-year-old boy living in Virginia.
“During the course of the chat, Mintzer sent multiple photos to the detective of his penis via Yahoo,” Andrews wrote in the affidavit.
The next day, Mintzer and the detective had another private Yahoo messenger chat in which Mintzer made arrangements to meet the undercover Fairfax detective at a park near an Exxon gas station in Fairfax. Members of the FBI were waiting to take him into custody with assistance from the Fairfax County Police Department, and he was transported to the Washington, D.C., where he is being prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
“It’s fair to say there are discussions geared toward resolving the case,” said Barry Boss, Mintzer’s attorney. “Nothing has been finalized yet.”
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Mass Murders vs. Serial Killers
From MSNBC
Profile of a killer
Serial killers want the death to go on and on, and they work hard not to get caught, Fox said. But for mass murderers, their own death is a virtual certainty, and they want to take as many with them as possible.
“Before they die, it’s very important for them to get some satisfaction, to get even with the people or the institutions or the world that has treated them so badly or made their life so miserable.”
Fox and Levin say mass killers fall generally into three categories:
People who are angry at a specific person or group of people and who selectively target those individuals.
People who are angry at a place — like city hall — or a group — like immigrants — and kill anyone who happens to represent those things.
And, the rarest type, people who target victims at random, such as he sniper who killed 16 and wounded 31 from the tower of the University of Texas administration building in 1966.
For the complete article go to: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30075905//
This case is being investigated by FBI Special Agent Steven Stokes with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives and Investigator Shawn Feldner of the Marlboro County Sheriff’s Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney A. Bradley Parham and Civil Rights Division Trial Attorney Michael J. Frank are prosecuting this case.
Three South Carolina Men Indicted on Federal Civil Rights Charges
WASHINGTON—The Justice Department announced today that a federal grand jury in Florence, South Carolina indicted three men from Marlboro County, South Carolina on charges relating to their attack on an African-American man and two white men in December 2007.
Thomas Howard Blue Sr., 48, Thomas Howard Blue Jr., 28, and Judson Hartley Talbert, 34, were charged in a 21-count indictment with violating and conspiracy to violate the civil rights of three South Carolina citizens, carjacking, use of fire to commit a felony, use of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, evidence tampering and grand jury perjury. Each civil rights count carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 fine. A trial has not yet been scheduled. An indictment is merely an accusation and defendants are presumed innocent unless proven guilty.
To read the full press release go here, http://columbia.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2009/co043009.htm