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3 days ago
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Decatur man accused of possessing child sex abuse material
DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — A Decatur man is facing charges of possessing child pornography after police accused him of uploading images of child sex abuse to his Microsoft OneDrive account and having images showing a young girl's rape. Kevin Horve is facing three counts of possessing pornographic content depicting someone 13 years or younger. He was arrested on Tuesday and made his first appearance in court the following day. In a sworn statement, Decatur Police Officer Timothy Wisniewski said the investigation into Horve started in February, when the Decatur Police Department received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Wisniewski was assigned to investigate the tip. Champaign man gets probation after pleading guilty to child pornography possession The tip was originally reported by Microsoft, which flagged 11 images that were uploaded to an account of its OneDrive platform. Wisniewski said at least four of the images depicted naked girls under the age of 13. Further investigation found 84 more images in the account's records; none of the original images were among the new photos found, but Wisniewski said another four depicted naked girls. The OneDrive account was registered to Horve, Wisniewski said, and the IP address listed with each file was registered to a Comcast account with Horve named as the subscriber. The address was geolocated to an address on Greenhill Road. Detectives served a search warrant for that address on Tuesday, and Horve was the only person present when the warrant was executed. Wisniewski said that during an interview with officers, Horve confirmed his Internet provider is Comcast and that he is the only user of the electronic devices officers seized. As the interview continued, Wisniewski said Horve explained that he had previously experimented with AI programs to create images of celebrities. 'Kevin was asked in the images were sexual images,' Wisniewski said in the statement. 'Kevin responded, 'Well yeah, obviously' and explained he was trying to create images of celebrities.' Decatur woman convicted of child porn sentenced after six-month delay Horve said he used the AI for a few months until Microsoft gave him a warning that stated he was creating content depicting people who were too young. He then deleted his Microsoft360 account after the warning. Wisniewski did not explain the connection between the AI content and the real content Horve is accused of possessing, and the charges he is facing don't reflect AI-generated pornography. They do reflect the three images that were found on one of the seized laptops. In all three of those images, a girl under the age of 13 is shown engaging in sexual intercourse. Appearing in court on Tuesday, Judge Lindsey Shelton granted a petition by the State's Attorney's Office to detain Horve ahead of his trial. He is due back in court on June 18 for a preliminary hearing. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Post
26-05-2025
- New York Post
Long Island man pulled from burning BMW, another called dead on site, thank their rescuers for the first time
Alexander Wisniewski experienced the worst day of his life in Jan. 2024. The now 19-year-old Commack resident was excited to be driving a tricked-out purple BMW M5 Competition on the windy and isolated Old Commack Road just before the car spun out into a tree and burst into 'six-foot-high' flames. 'I was stuck in the car unconscious. I had severe brain trauma and bleeding,' Wisniewski, a star soccer player who was training with German Bundesliga clubs, told The Post. Advertisement 4 Alex Wisniewski and Michael Mancino at South Shore University Hospital's 'EMS Heroes Night' in East Islip, N.Y., 2025, honoring resilient EMS workers. Angelina Katsanis 'Realistically, I shouldn't be alive or doing as good as I am…I'm about 90% back to normal now,' Wisniewski, who goes by Olek, added. The difference between life and death for him was the rapid responding paramedic Michael Mancino and two good Samaritan sanitation workers driving by. Advertisement 'I grabbed my fire extinguisher, and they also had one, and we were able to knock the flames back long enough for the fire department to get there and cut him out of the car with the jaws of life,' Mancino said. 'I didn't think he was going to even survive that. The car was in three pieces,' Mancino, 29, said. For the first time, Wisniewski, who was treated at South Shore University Hospital, had the opportunity to give his rescuer proper recognition at Northwell's EMS Heroes Night, which honored Mancino and others last week. 4 Anthony Dees, 33, of Central Islip has no recollection of the motorcycle crash that almost took his life on Fifth Avenue in Bay Shore last June. Angelina Katsanis Advertisement The two shared a heartfelt moment inside East Islip's Irish Coffee Pub as an emotional Wisniewski, now well enough to play club soccer at Florida Atlantic University in the fall, worked up the words 'thank you' to Mancino. 'I remember hearing about a week or two after the accident that he was going to be alright,' Mancino recalled. 'It felt great because in EMS, we don't get a lot of calls this severe that have a good outcome…those two workers also deserve a thank you.' In the aftermath, Wisniewski had to retrain his body how to walk, move his left arm, speak, and several other mechanics that most take for granted. Advertisement 4 'People were saying I was dead on the scene,' Dees said of being struck by a vehicle turning out of a doctors office. Angelina Katsanis 'It's been a long past few months, but I owe Michael and the others my entire life,' Wisniewski said. 'They were God's angels that day.' He has made substantial improvements in the past year and a half, where the miracle survivor almost feels 'back to normal.' 'When we're able to see somebody, months later, walk in and tell us that they're going back to their quality of life because of the profound impact health care had on them, there is no prouder moment for anyone,' said Irene Macyk, the president of South Shore. Now, Wisniewski looks forward to the future and returning to the soccer field. 'I can't wait to score my first goal after this,' he said. 'Dead on the scene' Anthony Dees, 33, of Central Islip has no recollection of the motorcycle crash that almost took his life on Fifth Avenue in Bay Shore last June. 'People were saying I was dead on the scene,' Dees said of being struck by a vehicle turning out of a doctors office. Advertisement 'My spleen ruptured, my femur broke in half, my hip broke off too, my elbow went through my skin, my left I broke four ribs, my lungs collapsed — both of them — and I'm down to one kidney and had brain trauma. 4 'Realistically, I shouldn't be alive or doing as good as I am…I'm about 90% back to normal now,' Wisniewski said. Angelina Katsanis Through what was an absolute nightmare of year, however, Dees is now able to walk with a cane and sometimes without after perseverance through physical therapy and the support of loved ones. 'I had a lot of people come visit me at the hospital — supposedly 250. It gave me a big heart,' Dees, who also needed 10 pints of blood after the crash, added. Advertisement 'Mentally, I'm ready to go back to work as a mechanic now. I'm just waiting on my body.' Dees, who teared up entering the catering hall, opened his heart to the Bay Shore EMS crew that gave him a second chance at life. Bay Shore EMS declined to comment. 'I need them to just know I appreciate everything they did to save my life, and I want them to keep up the good work,' he said. 'I gave them a really big hug. I really wanted to cry and say thank you so much. If I could get down my knees, I would and thank them.'
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
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Downtown gravel lot could eventually host a high-rise. Meanwhile, it's to be a community garden
A downtown gravel lot that could eventually host a housing development − perhaps a high-rise − would become a community garden for around five years under a new proposal. The garden would be at 711 E. Kilbourn Ave., a property operated by New Land Enterprises LLC. That firm used it as a constructing staging site while developing two nearby apartment communities: Ascent, 700 E. Kilbourn Ave., and Nova, 1237 N. Van Buren St. − which opened in 2022 and 2023, respectively. With construction completed, New Land wants to create a garden for residents of those buildings, as well as the firm's nearby City Green Apartments, 1040 N. Cass St. Gardening spots also could be offered to the general public. That garden would operate until New Land proceeds with developing the site, said Joey Wisniewski, senior development coordinator. That would likely be around four to five years, he told the Milwaukee Plan Commission at its May 19 meeting. The commission recommended zoning approval for the garden, which also needs Common Council approval. The garden would have raised flower beds on its perimeter along Kilbourn Avenue and Van Buren Street, Wisniewski said. Those would provide a buffer to lower-level beds, with fruits, vegetables and flowers, on the site's interior, he said. The garden would be open to the public "to walk through and enjoy" between 8 a.m. and dusk, according to New Land. It would meet the city's downtown comprehensive plan goals of creating diverse land uses and providing community amenities, said Kristin Connelly, a Department of City Development principal planner. "This is quite a lovely idea," said Stephanie Bloomingdale, commission chair. Tom Daykin can be emailed at tdaykin@ and followed on Instagram, Bluesky, X and article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Community garden to be interim use for future Milwaukee housing site Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
13-05-2025
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Decatur man accused of sharing child sex material over social messaging app
DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — A Decatur man is facing 15 felony counts alleging that he traded child pornography last year, while, according to him, he was high on drugs. Court records show that Tyler Pulliam, 34, was arrested earlier this year following a month-long investigation into his activity over the messaging app Kik. He's been charged with the following counts involving child pornography: 9 counts of reproducing or selling child pornography 4 counts of possessing film or photos of child pornography 2 counts of reproducing a moving depiction of child pornography On top of that, Pulliam is also facing a misdemeanor count of possessing a firearm without a FOID card. Machete-, shotgun-wielding man shot by officers in Macon arraigned In a sworn statement filed in the case, Decatur Police Detective Timothy Wisniewski said the investigation started in February when the Illinois Attorney General's Office received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The tip was eventually passed to Decatur Police because the IP address was registered to a Decatur address. The tip came from Kik, whose administrators observed on Aug. 14 a late-night uploading of 11 files that contained apparent child pornography. The account that made that upload — 'brattybratty7' — also logged into Kik several times on July 30 and July 31 and uploaded two composite images consisting of smaller images, each depicting children under the age of 13 engaged in sex. 'I also observed Kik account brattybratty7 sent a selfie-style photograph of a white male to another Kik user on 7-31-2025…which was sent during the timeframe this account was disseminating files containing child pornography to other Kik users,' Wisniewski said. 'The white male appeared to be Tyler based on my review of the body-worn camera video from the theft report he made in January 2025.' Wisniewski said all of the files uploaded to Kik were sent using the same IP address, which was registered to the Comcast account of a home on Division Street near Main and Water Streets. Taylorville Police arrest 'dangerous felon' after tracking him to their city Detectives served a search warrant for this home on March 28. They seized multiple computers and cell phones, one of which was found in Pulliam's bedroom. The computer's data showed that the email associated with the Kik account uploading child pornography was stored in the Google Chrome browser. Wisniewski said that during a mirandized interview, Pulliam admitted to previously using Kik but couldn't remember his username. Pulliam added that he has multiple email accounts that only he has access to — Wisniewski said one of those email accounts is associated with the Kik account uploading child pornography. 'Tyler discussed having prior strange late-night conversations of sexual nature with other people on Kik,' Wisniewski said. 'Tyler claimed he did not know when these conversations occurred but said they typically occurred when he was using ecstasy or hallucinogenic drugs.' Pulliam added that he is the only user of the computer found in his bedroom. The search of the home also revealed that Pulliam had a silver .25 caliber pistol and ammunition. His mother and aunt, who live in the home with him, denied ownership of the gun and said they rarely go upstairs, which is primarily Pulliam's area of the house. Pulliam does not possess a valid FOID card or a concealed carry license, Wisniewski said. UPDATE: Driver in deadly Mattoon nursing home crash pleads not guilty Pulliam was arrested after the search of his home and was booked into the Macon County Jail. Except for his court hearings, he's been there ever since; he was denied pretrial release by Judge Lindsey Shelton. Waiving his right to a preliminary hearing, Pulliam pleaded not guilty to all 16 of the counts against him. He is due back in court on June 6 for a pretrial hearing. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Sport
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Texas Tech football hopes winning follows Cole Wisniewski to town
The NCAA presents an Elite 90 award to the athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average competing at the finals site in each of its 90 national championships. Academically speaking, it's a big deal to win an Elite 90 once. Cole Wisniewski, a new safety on the Texas Tech football team, did it twice during his time with FCS power North Dakota State. Advertisement "The last B I had was probably eighth grade, maybe," Wisniewski said this week. "Both my parents are teachers. I think my mom told me when I was in like sixth or seventh grade, she wished she took school more serious." Wisniewski remembers thinking: I haven't had a B in a while. I may as well keep it up. "Actually may get one this semester, unfortunately," he said. "I missed having an assignment the first week, so that was unfortunate." Shooting for strength in numbers: What DBs are standing out in Texas Tech football spring practice? Numerically speaking: Texas Tech football has 31 players with new numbers this spring. See them all here. Advertisement Wisniewski (pronounced "Wiss-NESS-skee") transferred to Tech over the winter, already armed with degrees in business administration and marketing, as well as a glittering football resume. He was a consensus FCS first-team All-American in 2023 after making a team-high 92 tackles and tying a Missouri Valley Conference record with eight interceptions. Given his combination of smarts and playmaking, the Red Raiders are expecting him to contribute a lot in a hurry. Texas Tech's Cole Wisniewski goes through a drill during spring practice, Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at the Womble Football Center. "Honestly, it's just whatever they ask of me," said Wisniewski, who's listed at 6-foot-4 and 220 pounds. "I would love to put up the same numbers I put up at NDSU and do the same things. I guess that would be my expectation for myself, but just do the role that they ask me to do and execute in every way, the same way." Tech, next-to-last in the FBS in pass defense last season, went for a quick fix by signing five defensive backs out of the NCAA transfer portal. Four are cornerbacks with Wisniewski the lone safety. He's projected at boundary safety, the position vacated by 2024 senior C.J. Baskerville. Advertisement "I think he's earned everybody's respect, just the way he approaches things and the way that he works," Tech safeties coach Rob Greene said. "And then he's been around great coaches and a great program where they have high standards. Just having another person there to reinforce that with what we're already doing here, I think is a big deal. He just earns so much respect by how he approaches everything." Wisniewski grew up a Wisconsin Badgers fan in Sparta, Wisconsin, but generated little recruiting traction with Big Ten schools. He landed at one of the next best places. North Dakota State won three national championships in the NCAA college division from 1965-69, five in Division II from 1983-90 and 10 in the FCS from 2011-24. Wisniewski spent five seasons in Fargo, the first three as a linebacker. He was on Bison teams that won it all in 2021 and 2024 and lost in the championship game in 2023. However, his role last season was reduced to wearing a headset and relaying information from coaches in the press box to personnel on the field. A foot injury he suffered in a 2023 FCS semifinal required surgery and sidelined him for 2024. Advertisement Wisniewski's been careful so far not to walk in acting like a big shot, preferring to gain teammates' trust. "You're going to be a sixth-year guy, but also a rookie at the same time in the program," he said. "First time transferring, didn't really know what to expect. I think it's just going in and making sure the guys know that I care about them. I'm trying to be here and be the best teammate as well. I'm not just here to take a role." This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Texas Tech football hopes winning follows Cole Wisniewski to town
