Thomas L. Hewes, Warwick, Rhode Island (arrested Feb 2014) [child porn, catfishing]

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    Thomas L. Hewes (64 Verdant Drive, Cranston, Rhode Island), 52, social studies teacher at Gorton Junior High School, Warwick Public Schools, Warwick, Rhode Island, "arrested ... on child porn and indecent solicitation charges"

    Warwick Beacon: Warwick teacher arrested on child pornography charges (Feb 28 2014)

    A Cranston resident who teaches social studies at Gorton Junior High School in Warwick is facing child pornography charges after allegedly posing as a teenage girl online to solicit sexual images from underage boys. Thomas L. Hewes ... was arrested Friday and charged with indecent solicitation of a child, transfer of child pornography and possession of child pornography ...

    Police said an investigation was initiated when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children’s CyberTipline reported that a user on the website Meetme.com – identified in that user’s profile as a 16-year-old girl – was asking underage boys using the site for the explicit photos. That tip led to the State Police Computer Crimes Unit and Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force being issued a search warrant for Hewes’ home in Cranston. The search resulted in the seizing of “digital media including two computers, an iPhone, an iPad and 24 USB flash drives,” according to police, with the flash drives hidden in a basement drop ceiling. “A forensic preview of the digital media identified images and videos of alleged child pornography,” according to police.

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    ABC 6: Warwick middle school teacher faces child pornography charges (Feb 28 2014)

    Reports say that an online user claiming to be a 16-year-old girl was soliciting sexual images from underage boys. The RI State Police Computer Crimes Unit investigation led to a search warrant for [Thomas L.] Hewes' home. There, they found two computers, an iPhone, an iPad, and 24 USB flash drives containing alleged child pornography. The flash drives were hidden in the basement drop ceiling. Hewes was arraigned and released on $10,000 personal recognizance with special conditions prohibiting Internet use and contact with children.
     
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    Rhode Island State Police: Members of the Rhode Island State Police Computer Crimes Unit and Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Arrest a Warwick School Teacher for Indecent Solicitation of a Child, Transfer of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography [Press Release] (Feb 28 2014)

    Colonel Steven G. O'Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police and Commissioner of Public Safety, announces that on Friday, February 28, 2014, members of the Rhode Island State Police Computer Crimes Unit and Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force arrested Thomas L. Hewes, age 52, of 64 Verdant Drive, Cranston, Rhode Island, for the alleged crimes of Indecent Solicitation of a Child, Transfer of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography.

    Mr. Hewes is currently a social studies teacher at Gorton Junior High School in Warwick.

    Mr. Hewes was arrested as a result of an investigation initiated when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) CyberTipline reported that a Meetme.com user with a profile identifying the user as a sixteen year old girl was soliciting sexual images from underage boys. The investigation by the Rhode Island State Police Computer Crimes Unit and ICAC Task Force led to the issuance of a court authorized search warrant for Hewes' residence at 64 Verdant Drive, Cranston. During the execution of the search warrant this morning, ICAC Task Force members seized digital media including two computers, an iPhone, an iPad and twenty-four (24) USB flash drives. The flash drives were hidden in a basement drop ceiling. A forensic preview of the digital media identified images and videos of alleged child pornography.

    Mr. Hewes was arraigned on the above charges before the Honorable Associate Judge Frank J. Cenerini in Third Division District Court. Mr. Hewes was released on $10,000 personal recognizance with special conditions prohibiting Internet use and contact with children.

    This investigation is ongoing and will include a full forensic examination of the seized digital media. At this point, no local victims have been identified.
     
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    Providence Journal: Warwick junior high teacher arrested in child-porn investigation (Feb 28 2014)

    The investigation was initiated when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported that a Meetme.com user with a profile identifying the user as a 16-year-old girl was soliciting sexual images from underage boys. Members of the task force executed a search warrant Friday morning, the news release said, and seized digital media including two computers, an iPhone, an iPad and 24 USB flash drives. The flash drives were hidden in a basement drop ceiling. A forensic preview of the digital media identified images and videos of alleged child pornography. [Thomas L.] Hewes was arraigned in District Court, Warwick and released on his own recognizance with conditions prohibiting internet use and contact with children.
     
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    630 WPRO: NEWS: State Police arrest Warwick School Teacher for child porn (Feb 28 2014)

    52-year-old Thomas Hewes of Cranston was arrested Friday by members of the Computer Crimes Unit and Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. Hewes is currently a social studies teacher at Gorton Junior High School in Warwick ... After obtaining a search warrant of Hewes home, the ICAC Task Force seized two computers, an iPhone, an iPad, and twenty four USB flash drives. The flash drives were hidden in a basement drop ceiling. An initial review of the deigital media identified images and videos of alleged child pornography. Hewes was released on $10,000 personal recognizance with special conditions prohibiting Internet use and contact with children.
     
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    Warwick Patch: Cranston Man, Warwick Teacher, Charged with Child Porn (Feb 28 2014)

    Thomas L. Hewes ... was arrested after a State Police investigation after a they got a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Police said a user of the site meetme.com was using a profile and pretending to be a 16-year-old girl who was soliciting sexual images from underage boys. State Police said that user was Hewes, who was tracked down by police during the course of their investigation. Police seized two computers, an iPhone, iPad and 24 USB flash drives from Hewes' Verdan Drive house. The flash drives were hidden in a basement drop ceiling, police said.
     
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    Warwick Beacon: Gorton teacher charged for possessing child porn (Mar 4 2014)

    Hewes was arrested after an investigation initiated by a report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Their CyberTipline reported that a Meetme.com user with a profile as a 16-year-old girl was soliciting sexual images from underage boys. The State Police Computer Crimes Unit and ICAC Task Force led to the issuance of a court-authorized search of Hewes’ residence at 64 Verdant Drive in Cranston. The task force seized two computers, an iPhone, an iPad and 24 USB flash drives they found hidden behind a dropped ceiling in the basement that held images and videos of alleged child pornography.
     
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    A social studies teacher at Gorton Junior High in Warwick was arrested Friday on child porn and indecent solicitation charges, the Rhode Island State Police said in a news release. “Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode ...

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