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St. Augustine business owner indicted on charges of having child sexual abuse material
A St. Augustine business owner has been federally indicted on charges that he paid money to receive child sex abuse images online. Action News Jax was outside Dymeng Technology Solutions on Paseo Reyes Drive on May 8 when the business was raided. We confronted the owner, Jack Leach, to find out why federal investigators were there. He didn't tell us. >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<< Then, in a June 9 news release, the Department of Justice said investigators seized electronic devices from Leach's home and business that contained child sexual abuse material. The criminal complaint includes what prosecutors said are messages from Leach's phone, talking about children as young as three years old and traveling to the Philippines to abuse children there. Leach, 43, faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted. [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks] [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter] Click here to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here to stream Action News Jax live.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
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County reserve is England's 'special talent' - Bashir tweaks pay off
It is an unprecedented situation. A spinner who cannot get in his county team - so much so he was sent out on loan last month - picking up wickets, and a man-of-the-match award, for England. Shoaib Bashir took six wickets on the third day of England's victory over Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge, giving him nine in the match. In doing so he continued to repay the faith shown in him by captain Ben Stokes. "Too many people talk about his county record," former England captain Michael Vaughan said on the BBC's Today at the Test. "This is his team. "England got hold of him a couple of years ago and threw him into the set-up. "He has not got a great record in county cricket because he has not got a team. "Ben Stokes is his captain and whenever Ben Stokes is stood beside him he has very rarely let England down." Stokes revealed before the Test he had called Bashir to reassure him after a difficult start to the campaign. The off-spinner was plucked from relative obscurity to play India last year – he famously caught Stokes' eye through a clip on social media – and has been England's first-choice spinner since after taking 17 wickets in three matches. But the 21-year-old's county, Somerset, prefer the man he has replaced in the England XI – the more experienced left-spinner Jack Leach - and as a result Bashir was sent out on loan to Glamorgan, where he played three matches and took two wickets at an average of 152. "I went on loan to Glamorgan at the start of the season, just to get some overs under my belt," Bashir told BBC Test Match Special. "It was nice to join up with the England boys and bowl in front of an English crowd. "The boys and backroom staff make you feel 10-foot tall. When you are so well backed you can go and express yourself." Bashir's wickets in Nottingham took him to 58 in Tests and made him the youngest bowler to take 50 for England in the format. Even in the international arena, forgetting the selection decisions in Taunton, his progress has not been straightforward, however. His eight wickets in three Tests in New Zealand last year came at an average of 52, while in the first Test against Pakistan in Multan last year he returned figures of 1-156. But while Bashir can sometimes struggle to control his lengths, too often gifting loose deliveries, England value his raw attributes - in particular his height and subsequent bounce, plus his ability to bowl wicket-taking deliveries. "The skill is undoubted," Stokes said after the Zimbabwe win. "With Bash it was about giving him the belief that we back him. He's going from strength to strength. "Now, dealing with the confidence side, knowing he's backed by me, Baz and the rest of the dressing room, it's about building on that and trying to make him as good as he possibly can be. "We know we've got a very, very special talent in Bash." In the aftermath in Nottingham, Stokes praised Bashir for speaking about wanting to remain patient on the field during the win. "That is something he's definitely got a lot better at," Stokes said. "The big progression with him has been building towards a dismissal and not getting too giddy – that was the word he used out there. "He's always in the battle. He loves it when guys come after him, because he then feels like he's got to think a little bit more." There were also small technical tweaks against Zimbabwe, too. He moved around 5cm closer to the stumps when bowling over the wicket and 8cm closer when bowling round the wicket compared to previous home Tests. As a result, the number of deliveries travelling down the leg side in this Test dropped from 32% to 17%. This match was also the fullest he has bowled in any home Test - a key skill for an off-spinner in allowing them to drag a batter onto the front foot. Previously he bowled 26% of his deliveries in the full region but that jumped to 41% against Zimbabwe. "It's scary to think about the start of his career considering what he had experience-wise before he made his Test debut," Stokes added. "It's impossible for him not to get even better than what he is now. "The guys that we've got working with him, with all the technical stuff with Jeets [England spin bowling coach Jeetan Patel]. "I know it's an odd story to look at. I can understand why some people find it hard to believe. "If he keeps putting in performances like he has done this week, and continues in the way his career has gone, hopefully one day it will properly make sense to everyone why we pick him." Get cricket news sent straight to your phone
BBC News
18-05-2025
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Gregory leads Somerset to victory over Sussex
Rothesay County Championship Division One, Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton (day three)Somerset 338 & 150-5: Gregory 89*; Robinson 2-27, Coles 2-28Sussex 152 & 335: Simpson 82*, Haines 50; Leach 4-51, Henry 3-90Somerset (21 pts) beat Sussex (3pts) by five wicketsMatch scorecard Lewis Gregory led from the front with a brilliant 89 not out as Somerset completed a five-wicket win over Sussex in their County Championship match at the Cooper Associates Ground in just 150 to win on a benign pitch, the hosts reached their target in an additional half hour to the scheduled day's play, skipper Gregory taking advantage of his new position as opener to hit 12 fours in a sparkling 118-ball an unbeaten 82 off 164 balls from John Simpson had helped Sussex extend their second innings total from an overnight 127-4 to 335 all out. Fynn Hudson-Prentice contributed 41 and James Coles 39, while Jack Leach finished with did not prove enough and Somerset took 21 points from a second successive Championship victory, while their opponents had to be content with hopes of a fightback were dealt an early blow when Craig Overton struck with his first delivery of the day at the start of the second over. Tom Alsop, playing defensively, edged a low catch to Gregory at first immediately it was 129-6 as James Coles called for a single to mid-wicket to get off the mark and James Hayes was run out by Tom Banton's direct hit at the wicketkeeper's soon began to time the ball sweetly. He and Simpson held up the home side's victory bid with a stand of 66, both looking to play positively on a now flat had struck six fours when attempting another attacking shot off Jack Leach and driving in the air to Tom Lammonby at mid-off. At 195-7, his side led by just nine looked untroubled and found another partner in good touch as Hudson-Prentice helped take the total to 224-7 at lunch. More Sussex resistance followed the interval, aided by the rare sight of Overton dropping Hudson-Prentice at second slip off Leach. With 27 runs added, the second new ball was taken.A pulled four off Henry took Simpson to a half-century off 126 balls. It was the sixth boundary of an innings that was starting to frustrate the Somerset bowlers. When Hudson-Prentice smacked Henry for six over the short boundary on the town side of the ground, the lead had grown to shot provoked quick revenge from the New Zealand seamer who with the next delivery sent Hudson-Prentice's off stump flying to end a partnership of 78, which had occupied 28 soon followed up by having Nathan McAndrew caught behind after moving briskly to 16. Still Simpson refused to buckle and with last man Ollie Robinson at the other end, he went on the also played aggressively in a last-wicket stand of 44 before being caught at slip for 18 pushing forward to Leach. Tea was taken with 35 overs left in the day's were early scares for the hosts when Gregory edged the second delivery of their second innings from Robinson to first slip, only to be reprieved by a no-ball call, and Josh Davey was dropped by in the slips off soon fell to Robinson, bowled by a full delivery, and it was 11-2 when Lammonby fell lbw to the same bowler falling across his stumps. That became 30-3 as James Rew uncharacteristically chased a wide ball from McAndrew and edged through to was tension aplenty as Tom Abell took 25 balls to get off the mark before a square cut for four off Hudson-Prentice. But Gregory was proving a calming influence and when he moved to a confident half-century off 73 balls, with six fours, Somerset were more than halfway to their spinner James Coles removed Abell for 27 and Tom Banton for 15, but Gregory saw his side home, striking three boundaries in an over from Jack Carson before deservedly hitting the winning Reporters' Network supported by Rothesay
BBC News
04-05-2025
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England injury worry as Cox hurts side while making century
Batter Jordan Cox appears to be an injury doubt for England's Test with Zimbabwe after he retired hurt on day three of Essex's County Championship match with 24-year-old required treatment after falling to the ground clutching his left side, having run a single that took him to 99 in Essex's second resumed his innings, hitting a boundary off Jack Leach to reach his century from 156 balls, and then immediately walked off the field, not returning for Somerset's ex-Kent player was named in England's squad for their one-off Test with Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge from 22-25 is uncapped at Test level, having withdrawn from England's winter tour of New Zealand after breaking his thumb, but has played five white-ball games for his has been in good form in the County Championship this season, scoring 384 runs from six innings at an average of 76.80.
