Results tagged “childpornography”

Fishbowl DC has been all over this story for a couple days already, and now the Examiner's Scott McCabe has picked it up as well. D.C. resident Aaron Bruns, 29, a Fox News producer who covered the Clinton campaign during the 2008 presidential election, has been arrested on charges of possession of child pornography. D.C. police raided Bruns's Dupont Circle-area apartment on Jan. 23 and discovered photos and videos on his computer depicting "children under the age of ten being sexually abused by adult men and women." This isn't the first time for Bruns: This Michigan Daily article tells the story of how Bruns voluntarily left law school college following a similar charge in 1999. The Smoking Gun also has the recent affidavit, which contains graphic descriptions of the contents of Bruns's porn collection.

Still in the office, D.C.? Yeah, us too. We hope you're only sticking around because you don't need to travel this holiday season. If so, enjoy the empty halls, bask in the quiet, and call it a day early. If not — well, good luck on the roads and at the airport. It sounds like they're going to be predictably nasty. There Seems To Be Some Sort of Holiday Occurring: And consequently you can...

Good morning, Washington. Make it to the polls yesterday? If so, we hope you did so before the sun went down — it got cold in a hurry last night, as the area rapidly moved from warmer-than-usual temps to colder-than-usual ones. CapitalWeather is saying that the weekend should be warmer, at least. Election 2007: The results are in, and it looks like it was a good night for Virginia's Democrats. The Dems picked up...

Good morning, Washington. We hope your commute your commute to work yesterday was better than ours. We ran into snarled traffic in two different locations thanks to newspaper machines that had been blown into the street. Chalk another one up for the new media: we may not have sources, offices or salaries, but we're indisputably less susceptible to wind. Today looks to be about as cold and blustery as Thursday was — WAMU says...

Good morning, Washington. We hope you had a pleasant weekend — and that you didn't have to go anywhere. The street closures put in place for the Millions More March made getting in and out of the city harder than usual.

The participants quoted by the Post seem to regard the event as a success. The two attendees in this picture by EXB-WDC certainly seem to be having a pleasant time. But not everyone is happy with how the march unfolded. The Metro Weekly is reporting that gay activist Keith Boykin, who had secured a speaking slot after considerable effort, was ultimately blocked by organizers from addressing the crowd. The Post has more, indicating that Rev. Willie Wilson may be responsible for the eleventh-hour snub. You might remember Wilson for his remarks alleging rampant lesbianism in D.C. schools.

Behl Suspect Says Death Was Accidental: Benjamin Fawley, the man who has been implicated in the death of VCU student and Vienna native Taylor Behl, now says that the young woman died accidentally during a sexual encounter between the two. This revelation was announced on Saturday by the attorney of Behl's mother, Janet Pelasara. Pelasara believes that Behl and Fawley's final encounter was not consensual, although the two did have one such rendezvous in April of last year. Fawley is currently under arrest on firearm and child pornography charges.

Giraffe Euthanized: Jafari, the two year-old National Zoo giraffe that recently underwent surgery to remove a tumor, has been put to sleep. The initial operation wasn't entirely successful, and the giraffe's health took a turn for the worse Sunday morning. The zoo has one remaining giraffe.

H.S. Band Defers To Critic: The Post is reporting that the marching band of C.D. Hylton High School in Prince William County has recently made an unusual change to their set list. The group had added The Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" to their routine, only to have local paper The Potomac News publish a letter from a parent complaining that the song violated the separation of church and state. Band director Dennis Brown removed the song in order to avoid controversy, but his action seems to have made things worse. We're not fans of Charlie Daniels, but the song seems pretty harmless to us. What do you think?

Briefly Noted: Arlington taxi fares to increase... Cropp says stadium effort is still on track... PG County school enrollment is dropping... Four deadly shootings occurred over weekend... Or is it six? Two found bodies force Suitland Pkwy closure...

It just goes to show, you really never can tell who your sharing a neighborhood with. No sooner did we get settled in the suburbs of Maryland, than we learned we'd been sharing our former neighborhood (or at least part of it) with an alleged purveyor of child pornography. Fortunately, we were already sitting down when we heard news that a D.C. man from our old stomping grounds was arrested recently for using his computer to traffic in child pornography.

When DCist heard that a man was jailed after being caught with a massive child pornography cache, we knew immediately where to turn: the vigilant folks at Washington's NBC4 News.