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You are here MINNEAPOLIS – An Owatonna man pleaded guilty today to possession of an unregistered firearm, announced Acting United States Attorney W. Anders Folk. According to court documents, the Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office received information that Dayton Charles Sauke, 22, was selling narcotics and manufacturing and dealing firearms without a license. Law enforcement agents monitored Sauke’s Snapchat account where he made numerous posts consistent with manufacturing and dealing firearms without a license. Sauke also posted pictures of a short-barreled shotgun and made several threatening posts about killing law enforcement and politicians. On January 15, 2021, two undercover agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) met with Sauke and purchased from him a privately made firearm. During the meeting, Sauke had a short-barreled shotgun with him and showed it to the undercover agents. The short-barreled shotgun was later recovered by law enforcement officials and examined by an ATF expert, who determined it was an operable 12-gauge shotgun with a barrel length of approximately 11 inches and a total overall length of 18 inches. Federal law requires shotguns with reduced barrels and overall lengths (often referred to as “sawed-off” or “short-barreled” shotguns) to be registered in the…

EXETER — A man accused of sending a 15-year-old girl pictures of himself naked and soliciting her for sex has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year in jail.Anthony Shaw, 19, of Exeter, pleaded guilty in Rockingham Superior Court to two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child and two misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure as part of a negotiated plea deal with prosecutors. A judge handed down a 12-month sentence, with four months suspended for five years, and credit for 144 days served on one of the indecent exposure charges. The sentence for the other indecent exposure charge was a deferred conviction, meaning it can be brought forward if Shaw commits a "triggering offense."Shaw received two consecutive suspended 12-month sentences on each of the endangering the welfare of a child charges that he will have to serve if he violates probation during a two- to five-year period.  Shaw was arrested by Exeter police March 18. According to an affidavit filed by Exeter police Detective Bailey Teixeira, a 15-year-old girl reported Shaw started "showing up" where she and her friends hang out and somehow got her Snapchat. She told police Shaw had been sending her nude images of himself asking her…

A Victorian man who raped his sleeping friend after sending her a series of late-night messages that received no response has been jailed for at least three years and 10 months.The 29-year-old Phillip Island man, who cannot be named, raped the woman, then 25, at Cowes in March 2020.He messaged her on Snapchat after she left a party they had both attended, asking “where you at”.The man then walked to the house the woman was staying at, which was unlocked, looking for a phone charger.Another man also at the home asked what the 29-year-old was doing and walked him home.A Phillip Island man who raped his sleeping friend has been jailed. Creative image. Credit: 7NEWS.com.au“I’ll come back when he is asleep,” the 29-year-old then messaged the woman on Snapchat.The man later returned to the house and raped the 25-year-old woman while she was asleep.“What the f*** happened last night,” he messaged her the next day.“I am so sorry. I feel soooo bad today. I can barely remember last night and I have lost my f***ing keys. I want to die”.The 29-year-old later told police he had a “hazy” memory of the incident having drunk beer and spirits, as well as…

You can never be too careful when it comes to online security. Scammers and hackers are a constant danger to your privacy, data and finances. While there is no guaranteed method to remain safe, you can protect yourself and minimize the risk of falling victim. Phishing attacks can target anyone, as they rely on victims’ sense of trust rather than how they secure their accounts and devices. For example, scammers are crafting emails to Office 365 users that trick them into signing into phony websites. Once this is done, the victims’ login information is stolen and their accounts hijacked. Tap or click here for the full story and tips on avoiding this recent scam.A recent incident reads a little different. The hacker, in this case, targeted a certain group of victims and was even personally familiar with some of them. The crook is awaiting sentencing after stealing personal and sensitive data. Here’s the backstoryNicholas Faber of Rochester, N.Y., is going to jail for hacking into dozens of female college students’ accounts and stealing nude photos, among other things. The 25-year-old man received a three-year sentence in federal prison for his crimes after pleading guilty. Faber and co-conspirator Michael Fish targeted…

August 23, 2021Classes were canceled at a Redding high school on Friday after a student posted a violent threat on social media, according to Police. Thursday evening the RPD learned that a student of University Preparatory School on Eureka Way had posted threats via Snapchat. After discussing it with police, school officials decided to cancel classes on Friday. Detectives got an emergency search warrant for the Snapchat account and traced it to a 12-year-old UPREP student, who eventually confessed to the post. Police say the boy had no access to weapons and no means to carry out the threat. The case was sent to Juvenile Probation for possible charges.

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This is the first time the Montgomery County has had a presence on Snapchat, she said. Other platforms utilized in the campaign include Instagram, Facebook, ...

The Supreme Judicial Court is set to decide this fall when social media users have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their posts. The court will consider the case of Commonwealth v. Carrasquillo, in which the defendant was convicted of gun crimes after he posted a video of himself with a weapon to Snapchat. Snapchat is similar to Facebook in that users decide whether to approve requests from other users to join their networks, although Snapchat users tend not to use their real names on their accounts. Snapchat is also different because its posts have a short shelf life, disappearing shortly after they are viewed. That contributes to a sense that material on Snapchat is impermanent. The post in the case at issue was viewable only by the defendant’s friends, but at some point he accepted a friend request from an undercover police officer, who recognized the defendant from his beat in the neighborhood. After “friending” the defendant, the officer received a video on his Snapchat account of a person reaching into his pocket and pulling out a gun. The officer recognized the area in the video as one that the defendant frequented and sent police to the scene. They…

The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday refiled a bolstered version of its antitrust case against Facebook in a last-ditch effort to save what has been described as its most important competition lawsuit in decades.Seeking to overcome a judge’s stunning dismissal of its original lawsuit because the FTC had not presented ample evidence that Facebook is a monopoly, the FTC argues in its new filing that Facebook is in a class of its own and shouldn’t be compared to popular apps such as TikTok, Twitter and Pinterest, which attract a public-facing audience. The complaint argues that Snapchat, with tens of millions fewer monthly users than either Facebook or Instagram, is the company’s next-closest competitor.“Without meaningful competition, Facebook has been able to provide lower levels of service quality on privacy and data protection than it would have to provide in a competitive market,” the FTC said in the complaint.Story continues below advertisementFacebook spokesman Christopher Sgro said in a statement that it was “unfortunate” that the FTC decided to proceed with the case. “There was no valid claim that Facebook was a monopolist — and that has not changed,” he said. “We fight to win people’s time and attention every day, and we…