2002 News Stories
News Stories Related to Internet Crimes Against Children - 2002
| Honolulu Star-Bulletin Stories... | ||
| Man held for alleged Internet enticement | Wednesday, December 18, 2002 - Police along with state and federal law enforcement agents arrested a 29-year-old Honolulu man yesterday for allegedly using the Internet to lure a 13-year-old girl into a sexual encounter. | |
| Internet crimes team bags its first suspect | Tuesday, November 5, 2002 - A U.S. Air Force airman, who allegedly used the Internet to meet who he thought was a 13-year-old girl for sex, has become the first person in Hawaii arrested for investigation of electronic enticement of a child, authorities said yesterday. | |
| Child porn case nets plea - A schoolteacher pleads guilty in a deal with prosecutors | Saturday, September 21, 2002 - A Waiau Elementary School teacher and kumu hula admitted yesterday to possessing and trading child pornography on his personal computer. | |
| Hawaii Kai resident admits to porn charge | Friday, September 13, 2002 - A 31-year-old Hawaii Kai resident pleaded guilty yesterday to distributing child pornography over the Internet. | |
| Ex-postal worker admits to porn charge | Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - A former U.S Postal Service letter carrier pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to possession of computer files containing child pornography. | |
| Hilo man gets 3 years for having child porn | Wednesday, August 14, 2002 - A 32-year-old Hilo man was sentenced to three years and five months in federal prison yesterday for possessing computer diskettes containing child pornography. | |
| Man traded child porn, prosecutor says | Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - A 45-year-old Waiau Elementary School teacher and kumu hula admitted that he went into Internet chat rooms and exchanged child pornography images with a variety of people, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence Tong. | |
| Firefighter free on bail in teen sex assault case | Tuesday, July 9, 2002 - A Honolulu firefighter charged with sexually assaulting two teenage girls last month met the girls in an Internet chat room, police said. | |
| Predators on the ’Net | Sunday, June 16, 2002 - Some isle kids put themselves in danger by their online habits | |
| Man charged in Web seduction of girl | Wednesday, May 22, 2002 - A 34-year-old Oahu man was charged in federal court yesterday for allegedly enticing a 13-year-old Kauai girl to have sex with him and producing videotapes of the activities. | |
| Man indicted on charges of having sex with minor | Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - DALLAS -A businessman with addresses in Texas and Hawaii has been named in a six-count indictment accusing him of traveling overseas to have sex with a minor and of lying to obtain a passport to leave Thailand after authorities there had seized his passport. | |
| Missing Kauai girl latest in series of Internet lures | Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - Kaylee Ruiz-Taira may have traveled to Oahu to meet an online contact | |
| Hilo man sentenced for child pornography | Thursday, March 28, 2002 - A 31-year-old Hilo man has been sentenced to three years and eight months in federal prison for mailing computer diskettes containing child pornography. | |
| State librarian opposes federal Internet filter law | Thursday, March 28, 2002 - Hawaii libraries have adequate protections to block access to Web sites deemed harmful to children, and a federal law requiring the use of filters should be declared unconstitutional, the state's top librarian said yesterday. | |
| National child-porn crackdown nets arrests in Hawaii | Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - Searches were held on 3 islands as part of Operation Candyman | |
| Talk to children about online chats | Wednesday, March 6, 2002 - The issue: A Hawaii man used the Internet to lure a 14-year-old Oregon girl here for sex. | |
| Sex offender gets 3 years for luring girl | Tuesday, March 5, 2002 - Lando Millare had posed as a teenage boy on the Internet | |
| Internet sex crime sting nabs Maui man | Wednesday, February 20, 2002 - Kahului Airport is the site of a man getting a surprise from the FBI | |
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