Singer and YouTuber Austin Jones was arrested this week for allegedly producing child pornography involving his female fans, People confirms.
Jones was taken into custody by federal authorities at his suburban Chicago home on Monday, a U.S. Attorney’s Office official tells People. He is charged with two federal counts of producing child pornography.
According to Joseph Fitzpatrick, an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Illinois, Jones is accused of having underage girls “prove” how big of a fan they are by sending him pornographic videos of themselves.
In the summers of 2016 and 2017, federal officials allege,...
Jones was taken into custody by federal authorities at his suburban Chicago home on Monday, a U.S. Attorney’s Office official tells People. He is charged with two federal counts of producing child pornography.
According to Joseph Fitzpatrick, an assistant U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Illinois, Jones is accused of having underage girls “prove” how big of a fan they are by sending him pornographic videos of themselves.
In the summers of 2016 and 2017, federal officials allege,...
- 6/13/2017
- by Harriet Sokmensuer
- PEOPLE.com
A Chicago man was sentenced Friday to nine years in federal prison for helping his cousin and his cousin’s then-girlfriend, Heather Mack, kill her socialite mother at a luxury resort in Indonesia in 2014, People confirms.
In a plea agreement, 26-year-old Robert Ryan Justin Bibbs admitted that he gave advice to his cousin, Tommy Schaefer, and Mack about how to kill 62-year-old Sheila von Wiese-Mack, who was bludgeoned to death in her resort suite on Aug. 12, 2014.
According to court documents obtained by People, Bibbs and Schaefer exchanged multiple emoji-laced text messages about the slaying in which Bibbs suggested alternative methods...
In a plea agreement, 26-year-old Robert Ryan Justin Bibbs admitted that he gave advice to his cousin, Tommy Schaefer, and Mack about how to kill 62-year-old Sheila von Wiese-Mack, who was bludgeoned to death in her resort suite on Aug. 12, 2014.
According to court documents obtained by People, Bibbs and Schaefer exchanged multiple emoji-laced text messages about the slaying in which Bibbs suggested alternative methods...
- 6/6/2017
- by Christine Pelisek
- PEOPLE.com
Actor Sean Penn may or may not be subject to prosecution stemming from his secret meeting with convicted drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, legal experts tell People. Penn - enacting the real-life role of a reporter for Rolling Stone - conducted what he apparently hoped would be a clandestine interview in October with Guzman, who was hiding in Mexico after escaping a maximum security prison there in July. Penn's account of the meeting was published online Saturday, a days after Guzman was arrested in a raid by Mexican authorities that killed five. The question now is whether Penn will...
- 1/12/2016
- by Susan Keating @SKatzKeating
- PEOPLE.com
Actor Sean Penn may or may not be subject to prosecution stemming from his secret meeting with convicted drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, legal experts tell People. Penn - enacting the real-life role of a reporter for Rolling Stone - conducted what he apparently hoped would be a clandestine interview in October with Guzman, who was hiding in Mexico after escaping a maximum security prison there in July. Penn's account of the meeting was published online Saturday, a days after Guzman was arrested in a raid by Mexican authorities that killed five. The question now is whether Penn will...
- 1/12/2016
- by Susan Keating @SKatzKeating
- PEOPLE.com
The Scottish National Party (Snp) has called on the coalition government to include the long-planned games industry tax relief in its emergency budget next month. It emerged today that the new Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition intends to put the Games Tax Relief, which was included in the last Budget statement in March, on hold while it prioritises other areas. In response, the Snp's Joe FitzPatrick has written to chancellor George Osborne, secretary of state for business Vince Cable and culture secretary Jeremy Hunt calling on them to include the measure in the emergency budget on June 22. FitzPatrick, the Msp for Dundee West, said that "any tax relief granted would be extremely small in comparison to the return on the investment, and would be a big step in the recovery of our economy". Richard Wilson, chief executive of trade body Tiga, said that Fitzpatrick knows (more)...
- 5/20/2010
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
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