Category Archives: Child Exploitation

Maryland Middle School Teacher Caught in Online Sting

  A 39-year-old Maryland Middle School teacher is facing charges on four counts of Solicitation of a Minor in connection with an online chat investigation that began on August 31 by our Major Crime Bureau, Child Exploitation Unit. A detective posing as a 14-year-old boy, was contacted by a stranger through a geo-social cell phone application. The suspect initiated a

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Substitute Teacher Charged with Arranging to Have Sex with a Minor

Reston Police District – A 22-year-old substitute teacher is facing charges of solicitation of a minor and attempted indecent liberties. Detectives from the Child Exploitation Unit arrested Hatim Khalid Abdelrahman of Reston last night. Abdelrahman arranged to meet a young girl with the apparent intent of having sex. Detectives arrested him in the Herndon area around 6 last evening. Abdelrahman

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UPDATE: Anonymous Tip Leads to an Arrest of “Upskirting” Suspect at Walmart

West Springfield District –A Crime Solvers tip led to the arrest of Guy Joseph Parsons, 53, of Fairfax, earlier this morning. Detectives from our Major Crimes Division followed up on an anonymous tip received through a Crime Solvers text-a-tip. Through the investigation, a strong lead was developed and Parsons was taken into custody near his home in the 4900 block

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UPDATE: Missing Girl Located

West Springfield Police District – Earlier today, detectives were notified that Sofia Cuellar Barrientos had been found in Charles County, Maryland. She will soon be reunited with her family. (Original Release May 24, 2017)      Help Us Find a Missing/Endangered Young Girl Detectives are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 13-year-old, Sofia Cuellar Barrientos. She was last seen in

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Multiple Arrests Made in Child Exploitation Operation

Major Crimes Division detectives from the Child Exploitation Unit recently conducted a three-day operation targeting online sexual predators. Detectives, posing as juveniles, went online and within a very short period of time, received solicitations and sexually explicit images from men wanting to meet the “child” for the purpose of engaging in inappropriate sexual activity. The suspect and “child” would arrange a time and

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