Showing posts with label kidnapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kidnapping. Show all posts

Monday, July 31, 2023

Outrage in Olney over rape suspect's previous record


Parents complain rape suspect Joshua Black roamed the community virtually unsupervised despite convictions and escalating behavior

OLNEY, Md. — Accused rapist Joshua Black, 31, of Olney, Maryland, was ordered held without bail in Montgomery County Monday after prosecutors outlined Black's extensive record of sex crimes and allegedly sexually motivated stalking, trespassing and harassments.

Black is accused of raping a 14-year old girl in a wooded area of the Hallowell subdivision in Olney Thursday in what District Court Judge Sheri Koch described as a pattern of escalating criminal behavior...


..."We really should not have gotten to this point with this individual. He was never added to the sex offender registry. We have a registry for a reason," Stoddard said.

Stoddard said police were called to the Hallowell Community Pool on May 27 after teens, including his daughter, reported a man apparently masturbating while covered by a towel.

Black was cited for trespassing and banned from the pool, but did not face any sex crime charge under Maryland law, according to Stoddard, who complained that Black remained free to continue roaming the neighborhood on his bicycle despite his extensive record...


Olney community outraged over rape suspect's previous record | wusa9.com

Thursday, February 3, 2022

Scottish court orders former Walter Johnson lacrosse coach to return to U.S. to face charges related to 2018 murder, kidnapping plot

Reporter Caitlynn Peetz, from Bethesda Beat, full article here.

Opinion of the Scottish Court here.

A former Walter Johnson High School lacrosse coach accused of a plot to murder parents and kidnap five kids in Virginia has lost his attempt to stay in the United Kingdom, where he has been for three years.

A Scottish court last week denied Gary Blake Reburn’s attempt to avoid extradition to the United States to face criminal charges.

Reburn, 58, is one of four people accused of devising a plan to kidnap five children from two homes in a Mennonite community in Dayton, Va., southwest of Harrisonburg.

And:

Reburn worked for MCPS between 2012 and August 2018, according to district officials. He was the Walter Johnson High School girls lacrosse team coach.

According to the Walter Johnson High School athletics website, Reburn was a karate instructor and was previously employed by Lifematters, a home care company. Reburn played Division III college lacrosse at Mount St. Mary’s University, according to the website.


Monday, December 21, 2020

Virginia man faces felony charges of kidnapping, child abduction, soliciting child pornography from a minor and meeting a child from California for the intention of sex.

A Virginia man who has made several tries for public office and has advocated white supremacy, pedophilia and rape is in police custody for what authorities are calling an “extremely disturbing” kidnapping plot involving a 12-year-old California girl.

Nathan Daniel Larson, 40, who once ran as an independent for Congress in Virginia, is in custody in Denver, where he is facing a misdemeanor charge of harboring a minor, Sheriff Margaret Mims of Fresno County, Calif., said during a news conference Saturday morning.

Larson, of Catlett, Va., was intercepted by law enforcement officers during a layover on a cross-country flight to D.C., Mims said. He is to appear before a judge in Denver on Thursday, when an extradition request is expected to be filed to return him to California. There, he faces felony charges of kidnapping, child abduction, soliciting child pornography from a minor and meeting a child for the intention of sex...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/12/19/virginian-arrested-kidnapping-12-year-old-calif-girl/