LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Eight people are facing sexual predator charges after being busted in an uncover operation, police said.

Those arrested were David Wonnacott-Yahnke, 40; Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38; Jose Alberto
Perez-Torres, 35; Aniket Brajeshkumar Sadani, 23; James Ramon Reddick, 23; Ramon Manuel
Parra Valenzuela, 29; Neal Harrison Creecy, 46 and John Charles Duncan, 49.

All are facing felony charges of luring a child with a computer for a sex act and were booked into the Henderson Detention, except Duncan, who was booked into the Clark County Detention Center.

The undercover operation involved multiple agencies, including the FBI, Homeland Security, Metro, Henderson, and North Las Vegas police agencies

Police encourage parents to discuss with their children the dangers of engaging with strangers online and to routinely monitor their activity on social media and other online applications.

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MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio (WJW) — Two people were taken into custody after a man was shot in the parking lot of a Giant Eagle over the weekend and eventually died, Maple Heights police reported.

Officers responded to the 5300 block of Warrensville Center Road around 1:40 p.m. Saturday, where they found a man with a gunshot wound to the chest.

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According to the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner, 28-year-old Timothy Kappenhagen succumbed to his injuries just before 7 a.m. on Sunday.

Investigators found that the victim was shopping at Giant Eagle and was in the parking lot loading groceries into his vehicle when the suspect approached him. The two begin to “struggle with each other.” That’s when the victim was shot and the suspect sped off in the victim’s vehicle.

Police said Thursday that a vehicle of interest was found by RTA police Monday with two males inside, who were taken into custody for questioning. No one has yet been charged, police said.

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The armed robbery/felonious assault/homicide case remains under investigation and police are still searching for people of interest. Anyone with information about this shooting is asked to call the  Maple Heights Detective Bureau at 216-587-9624.

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A pair of men in India each face large fines after their illegal logging operation was captured on social media.

As reported by The Tribune, Tok Chand and Ram Nath, both residents of Salgran village in Himachal Pradesh, India, have been accused of illegally cutting down two trees within the village. The men were allegedly caught on video by a group of locals who were investigating the sound of a chainsaw in the area.

After being confronted, one of the men revealed that he was operating under orders from a member of the Board of Directors of the Forest Corporation. The video spread through social media, prompting a police investigation. Authorities were then able to recover 36 wooden blocks from the site.

Following the investigation, Chand and Nath were fined Rs 1.55 lakh and Rs 1.56 lakh respectively, or around $1,800 each. There has been no indication of whether the men will pay their fines.

Illegal logging in India has become a major concern, leading to significant environmental and economic problems. This has contributed to deforestation and biodiversity loss, as well as impacting local communities and their economies.

The country has faced several high-profile cases of illegal logging in recent years. In many cases, these activities have been put to a stop by local community members in an attempt to preserve precious natural resources.

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Unfortunately, illegal logging has also become a growing concern for countries all over the world. A report from Mongabay notes that illegal logging costs Indonesia alone $2 billion in losses every year. Interpol estimates that illegal logging accounts for 15 to 30% of all timber traded in the world, worth up to $152 billion annually.

Besides disrupting vulnerable habitats, the illegal logging industry has directly contributed to an increase in carbon emissions. Trees play a vital role in carbon storage, or the process of capturing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Trees can absorb CO2 through photosynthesis, using it to grow and build biomass. This stored carbon can remain in the tree for its entire lifespan.

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GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) — The SC Board of Education has suspended the teaching license of Nicole Callaham, an Upstate teacher accused of sexually abusing a teenager.

Callaham faces multiple charges in both Anderson and Greenville Counties, including unlawful conduct toward a child and felony counts of criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

The former Homeland Park Primary teacher was arrested in Anderson County for the sexual abuse of a 14-year-old boy, dating back to 2021.

The Board of Education stated it has reason to believe that Callaham may pose a significant threat to students. The charges against her highlight serious allegations that have prompted swift action from educational officials.

Callaham was granted bond and placed under house arrest with GPS monitoring following her arrest in July.

The suspension of her license will remain in effect until due process is completed.

No trial date has been set.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was indicted Friday in what prosecutors called a yearslong scheme to hide a romantic relationship with her bodyguard, who is accused of being paid as if he was working even when they met alone in apartments and traveled to vineyards for wine tasting.

Cantrell faces charges of conspiracy, fraud and obstruction, less than five months before she leaves office due to term limits. The first female mayor in New Orleans' 300-year history was elected twice but now becomes the city's first mayor to be charged while in office.

“Public corruption has crippled us for years and years,” Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Simpson said, referring to Louisiana's notorious history. “And this is extremely significant.”

Cantrell's bodyguard, Jeffrey Vappie, was already facing charges of wire fraud and making false statements. He has pleaded not guilty. A grand jury returned an 18-count indictment Friday that added Cantrell to the case.

They are accused of exchanging encrypted messages through WhatsApp to avoid detection and then deleting the conversations. The mayor and Vappie have said their relationship was strictly professional, but the indictment portrayed it as “personal and intimate.”

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The City of New Orleans said in a statement that it was aware of the indictment and that the mayor's attorney is reviewing it.

"Until his review is complete, the City will not comment further on this matter,” the statement said.

Cantrell hasn’t sent out a message on her official social media feed on X since July 15, when she said the city was experiencing historic declines in crime.

In a WhatsApp exchange, the indictment says, Vappie reminisced about accompanying Cantrell to Scotland in October 2021, saying that was “where it all started.”

Cantrell and Vappie used WhatsApp for more than 15,000 messages, including efforts to harass a citizen, delete evidence, make false statements to FBI agents, “and ultimately to commit perjury before a federal grand jury,” Simpson said.

They met in an apartment while Vappie claimed to be on duty, and she arranged for him to attend 14 trips, Simpson said. The trips, he added, were described by her as times “when they were truly alone."

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New Orleans taxpayers paid more than $70,000 for Vappie’s travel, the prosecutor said.

Together on an island

Authorities cited a September 2022 rendezvous on Martha’s Vineyard, a trip Cantrell took instead of attending a conference in Miami. Vappie’s travel to the island was covered by the city to attend a separate conference. “The times when we are truly (traveling) is what spoils me the most,” the mayor wrote to him that month.

Simpson said Cantrell lied in an affidavit that she activated a function on her phone that automatically deleted messages in 2021 when she really didn’t activate that feature until December 2022, a month after the media began speculating on the pair’s conduct.

When a private citizen took photos of them dining together and drinking wine, Cantrell filed a police report and sought a restraining order, Simpson said.

Vappie retired from the police department in 2024.

Mayor has her defenders

Cantrell and her remaining allies have said that she has been unfairly targeted as a Black woman and held to a different standard than male officials, her executive powers at City Hall sabotaged. Simpson, however, shook off claims that any of it played a role in the investigation.

“It’s irrelevant that it’s romance or that it’s female,” he told reporters, adding that the allegations were “an incredible betrayal of people’s confidence in their own government.”

Cantrell, a Democrat, has clashed with City Council members during a turbulent second term and survived a recall effort in 2022.

“This is a sad day for the people of New Orleans,” Monet Brignac, a spokesperson for City Council President JP Morrell, said as news of the indictment spread.

In 2014, former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was sentenced to 10 years in prison for bribery, money laundering, fraud and tax crimes. The charges stemmed from his two terms as mayor from 2002 to 2010. He was granted supervised release from prison in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As she heads into her final months in office, Cantrell has alienated former confidants and supporters, and her civic profile has receded. Her early achievements were eclipsed by self-inflicted wounds and bitter feuds with a hostile city council, political observers say. The mayor’s role has weakened following voter-approved changes to the city’s charter meant to curb her authority.

Earlier this year, Cantrell said she has faced “very disrespectful, insulting, in some cases kind of unimaginable” treatment. Her husband, attorney Jason Cantrell, died in 2023.

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Hollingsworth reported from Mission, Kansas. Associated Press writer Ed White in Detroit contributed to this story.

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office (OCSO) and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) have concluded the investigation into State Superintendent Ryan Walters and are turning over their findings to the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office.

OCSO was asked to investigate the allegations by two board members who said that they saw nude women on a TV inside Walters’ office during a July state school board meeting.

On Tuesday, August 5, House Speaker Kyle Hilber said that a third-party cybersecurity company performed a forensic analysis on the situation and compiled a 32-page report. The report said that the TV was displaying a movie channel that played two movies between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on July 24 that had moderate sex and nudity in them.

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Hilbert, in a statement, said the finding suggested that the movies playing on Walters’ office TV was The Protector, a 1985 R-rated thriller filled with violence, drug use, and multiple scenes of full nudity, followed by the 2017 film, The Foreigner, another R-rated film.

On Friday, OCSO posted to social media, announcing they concluded their investigation and will now be turning their findings over to the District Attorney’s Office. OSBI has also said that they turned over the investigation to the DA’s office.

“OSBI, in conjunction with OCSO have turned over the investigation to the DA’s office,“ said Hunter McKee with OSBI.

It is unclear at this time what the findings are at this time, as both departments have handed over the case to the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office.

“After a thorough investigation, our office is now turning over its findings to the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office. Because the case is now in the hands of the DA, we can’t discuss the specifics of our findings. At the closure of this case in its entirety, we will discuss the case more in depth,” said Oklahoma County Sheriff Tommie Johnson III in a statement.

The District Attorney’s Office told News 4 on Friday that there is no timeline as to how long the review will take.

“The DA met with the investigators today. Now our office will review the investigation to determine if charges will be filed or not. There is no timeline on how long that will take,” said Brook Arbeitman, director of communications with the Oklahoma County District Attorney’s Office.

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