A 20-year-old former Chuck E Cheese employee who has also worked with the Boys and Girls Club of Frederick County has been charged with 15 misdemeanor counts of possessing child pornography. Artes Levelle Diggs calls the allegations that he was found in possession of images showing boys under the age of 16 engaging in sexual acts "out of control" and claims that the images came to be on his computer while he was still a child himself.

Diggs has been assigned a Virginia Criminal Lawyer by the state, and denied the charges to press, saying:

"(Police) found stuff that was on my computer when I was a child. It was old stuff."

Diggs first became the subject of an investigation back in December, when Fairfax County police were alerted to a case of alleged child exploitation. Two illicit photographs and a phone number were posted for a 17-year-old boy on Craigslist, and the teen in the pictures told police he'd been chatting with a person online known to him only as "Artes." Contact between the two is said to have lasted several weeks, during which time Diggs is said to have asked the minor to engage in sexual acts using a webcam. When the teen attempted to cease contact with "Artes," the man threatened to post the pictures publicly if the victim discontinued contact.

When approached by police on December 30th of last year, Diggs admitted to possessing the images, but denied that the relationship was inappropriate or that he is a danger to children:

"I love children," he said. "I would never touch a child. This is all happening because of a fight with a guy."

A Fairfax District Court hearing regarding Diggs' case was originally scheduled for July 20th, but has been canceled after prosecutors filed to have the case heard in Fairfax District Court. A date for the trial has not been set, but each count carries a maximum of five years in prison and a $2,500 fine.

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After nearly three months of collaboration between law enforcement officials in Virginia Beach and Norfolk, police have arrested two men for a 7-Eleven robbery in early May. Police spokesman Adam Bernstein said that two men entered the Euclid Road location in Virginia Beach on May 2nd, armed with knives. The suspects are said to have demanded money from the store's staff, and fled with cigarettes and lottery tickets. No one was injured in the incident, and the amount stolen from the store has not been disclosed by law enforcement officials.

Police say that a third man assisted in both the commission of and getaway from the crime. Shortly after the incident, detectives in Virginia Beach working with Norfolk police arrested 23-year-old Ervie Lee Smith of Modoc Avenue in Norfolk. Smith was charged with robbery and use of a mask. Law enforcement in Virginia Beach and Norfolk continued investigating the crime, and on July 22nd, brothers Krystoffer Marquis Holmes, 22, and William Kirkland Holmes, 18, were identified as the two remaining suspects.

The elder Holmes was apprehended at his place of employment, and was charged with robbery and conspiracy. His younger brother was taken into custody at his home, and was charged with robbery and use of a mask. It is unclear whether any of the three suspects have been assigned or retained a Virginia criminal lawyer. Smith was jailed in Norfolk, and Krystoffer Jolmes and William Holmes are both being held at the Virginia Beach Correctional Center without bond.

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Jing Hong Kang- a father, husband and Virginia Tech graduate from Fairfax, Virginia who was visiting California for an interview with Google, was killed during a robbery while on his trip. Kang, 45, was born in Beijing, but was educated in the states, and was just hours away from his interview at the top-tier tech company when he was gunned down by two armed men who demanded money.

Kang had traveled to Oakland Sunday for the Monday morning interview. He was with a friend, who has not been named, and the pair were programming directions to Google into a rental car's GPS at around 11:30 PM. Around that time, two perpetrators are said to have approached the vehicle. Police in Oakland say that the incident appears to be a bungled robbery:

"Through our preliminary investigation, it appears it was a robbery gone bad. We are looking for two African American suspects," said a police officer.

Neighbors in Kang's "quiet" neighborhood back home in Fairfax expressed shock and horror at learning his murder to local press outlets. Wife Wendy, with whom Kang had three sons, says the two were coming up on their 20th anniversary:

"He was the best father and the best husband and the center of our home. We all loved him."

Google released a statement about Kang's murder, expressing condolences to his family:

"We were saddened to hear the news. Our hearts go out to Jing Hong Kang's family in this difficult time."

Police in Oakland are said to be looking for suspects in the robbery turned murder, and a $20,000 reward for information in the Fairfax man's death is currently being offered.

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A Prince William County's prosecutor is seeking to upgrade charges against an illegal Bolivian immigrant after a fatal DUI crash, and Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert has stated to press that he is more interested in seeing the suspect prosecuted for the crime than deporting the man. Ebert intends to ask a grand jury to upgrade charges against 23-year-old Carlos Martinelly Montano to felony murder, which carries a possible sentence of 40 years behind bars.

Montano was arraigned August 4th on charges of involuntary manslaughter and driving on a revoked license .Montano emigrated to California from his native Bolivia as a nine-year-old, and Ebert commented:

"I've decided I'm not interested in a criminal's immigration status. If he commits the crime here, then he has to pull the time here."

Since 2006, Montano has been convicted twice of DUI, as well as various other moving violations. Following his previous convictions, officials in Prince William county officials notified U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the arrests. As Montano was not marked as a violent offender, ICE officials indicate that deportation proceedings were not "fast tracked." Officials expressed frustration at the ICE's failure to prevent the tragic accident Sunday morning resulting in the death of Sister Denise Mosier and injury to two other nuns with whom she was traveling.

Corey Stewart, chairman of Prince William County's Board of Supervisors, said:

"We handed him over to the feds assuming he would be deported, but instead federal authorities released him back into the neighborhood and he killed a nun. We feel like we are beating our heads against the wall."

It is unclear whether Montano has been assigned or retained a Virginia DUI lawyer to face the charges against him. He is scheduled to appear in court on October 13th, and is currently being held in Prince William-Manassas regional jail without bond.

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