Silver Spring man pleads guilty in child porn case A Silver Spring has pleaded guilty to charges of distributing child pornography, admitting that he possessed nearly 900,000 explicit images and videos.
Gary Callis, 42, pleaded guilty in federal court in Greenbelt. Court records say that when agents searched his computer in February 2010, they found 866,000 images and 8,100 films that depicted the sexual abuse of children.
The investigation into Callis began when an undercover officer detected him sharing pornographic images in November and December 2009.
Callis also admitted to investigators that he sexually molested a teenage neighbor in 2000 and molested his girlfriend’s 7-year-old son in 2003, prosecutors said.
MS-13 member indicted on sex-trafficking charges
The leader of a MS-13 clique has been indicted on charges of running a prostitution business that trafficked juvenile girls.
Federal prosecutors in Alexandria say 23-year-old Rances Ulices Amaya recruited girls to work as prostitutes and transported them around Northern Virginia for appointments with clients in June 2009 and throughout that fall.
Amaya is the leader of the Guanacos Lokotes Salvatrucha clique, according to prosecutors.
He is the fifth MS-13 member charged in a federal sex-trafficking this year.
Three convicted in plan to kidnap bank worker
Three men have been convicted in a plot to kidnap a bank employee at gunpoint.
Prosecutors said 44-year-old Darrell Carter, 43-year-old Jeffrey Edelen and 40-year-old Kendall Taylor broke into the home of a woman who worked at a D.C. bank on Jan. 13 and held the woman and her son at gunpoint. They planned to take the woman to the bank and force her to help the men obtain money.
The child called his father, who then called police, when he heard the men banging on the door. Police arrived before the abductors and woman left the house.
– Emily Babay
