Northeast
New York man allegedly placed hidden cameras in public park restroom; captured explicit images of children
A New York man secretly recorded hundreds of women and girls in a public restroom at a local park where he worked, federal prosecutors allege.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, said that 54-year-old John Towers planted hidden cameras in the ladies’ room of a public park in Putnam County, New York — authorities declined to share the name of the public park.
Towers allegedly used the planted cameras to capture “prepubescent minors” and females using the bathroom.
“John Towers’s alleged disturbing conduct violated the public’s trust by placing hidden cameras in a public bathroom and using those cameras to capture sexually explicit images of children,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said. “As today’s arrest shows, we will use every tool available to law enforcement to investigate and prosecute those alleged to have sexually exploited children.”
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Towers allegedly used an old cellphone and 10 “spy cameras” to record approximately 800 explicit videos of girls and women using the bathroom, a Manhattan federal complaint said.
They also found more than 6,000 images and videos that had been uploaded to the internet, according to the complaint.
Authorities said that three of the spy cameras were designed to look like ballpoint pens, and others looked like a battery pack, an antenna and a tiny camera that looked like a button.
Towers transferred the recordings to a hard drive, prosecutors alleged.
When investigating Towers’ home on March 19, authorities found computers and hard drives filled with pornographic images.
Many of the files contained the misspelled term “yung,” prosecutors alleged.
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Federal authorities believe that the hidden cameras were in the bathroom from at least July 24, 2018, until Dec. 9, 2019.
Towers is charged in the federal complaint with sexual exploitation of a minor, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum sentence of 30 years, and possession of child pornography, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
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Boston, MA
Boston Celtics Player Earned A $369,000 Contract Bonus
On Wednesday evening, the Boston Celtics advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals by defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers 113-98 in Game 5 of their second-round playoff series.
Jaylen Brown had a quiet night, and finished with 11 points, four rebounds, seven assists, one steal and one block while shooting 4/9 from the field and 1/3 from the three-point range in 41 minutes of playing time.
By advancing to the Conference Finals, ESPN’s Bobby Marks reported that Brown earned a significant contract bonus.
Via Marks: “🚨Bonus Alert 🚨 Jaylen Brown ✅Conference Finals 💰$369,048”
Brown finished the regular season with averages of 23.0 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.2 steals per contest while shooting 49.9% from the field and 35.4% from the three-point range in 70 games.
The All-Star forward helped the Celtics finish as the first seed in the Eastern Conference (with a 64-18 record).
They beat the Miami Heat in the first round before eliminating the Cavs on Wednesday.
Brown was the third pick in the 2016 NBA Draft out of Cal and is in his eighth season in the league (all with Boston).
Despite only being 27, he is headed to his sixth Eastern Conference Finals appearance.
However, the Celtics have been unable to win a title since the 2008 season when Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce were still on the roster.
The Celtics will play either the New York Knicks or the Indiana Pacers.
Currently, the Knicks lead the Pacers 3-2 with Game 6 on Friday evening in Indiana.
Pittsburg, PA
One person injured in late-night McKeesport shooting
McKEESPORT, Pa. (KDKA) — One person was taken to the hospital following a late-night shooting in McKeesport.
The shooting happened along Scott Street just before midnight on Wednesday.
Dispatchers tell KDKA that police and medics were called to the area just before midnight and that one person was taken to the hospital by medics.
KDKA’s overnight unit captured video of a car that appeared to be hit with bullets and had a window shot out as well.
It’s unclear what led up to the shooting or if police will be releasing any suspect descriptions.
The condition of the person who was taken to the hospital is unknown at this time.
Connecticut
Connecticut Medals of Technology to be Awarded to Yale Professor, Danbury Technology Business — Connecticut by the Numbers
“Dr. Elimelech’s pioneering research has not only enriched the academic community’s understanding of a highly complex topic, but also led to innovative approaches to addressing critical environmental issues and spawned the growth of an industry,” he said. “ARKA’s unparalleled technology expertise is contributing to the success of our nation in a variety of sectors and creating high-skilled jobs that will attract investment to our state and enhance our economy,” Lamont added.
Elimelech’s research and development is in the application of membrane processes including forward osmosis or FO (for desalination and water reuse), high-pressure reverse osmosis or HPRO (for brine concentration and management), and low-salt-rejection reverse osmosis or LSRRO (for brine management and minimal- and zero-liquid discharge applications).
HPRO and LSRRO are expected to revolutionize low-energy, low-cost brine management. Gradiant, a US company specializing in brine management (minimum- and zero-liquid discharge, MLD/ZLD), is commercializing a variant of the LSRRO and FO technologies, which is called Counter Flow RO (CFRO). The current market of brine management is estimated at $11.5B.
Elimelech’s innovative work on forward osmosis (FO) profoundly impacted the desalination and water industry. He was a co-founder of Oasys Water, a company which commercialized the ammonia-carbon dioxide FO desalination technology. More than 13 new FO start-up companies have been formed following his pioneering FO research.
In a recent breakthrough, Elimelech showed that the solution-diffusion model, which has been used to describe water transport in reverse osmosis (RO) membranes for more than 50 years, is fundamentally flawed and he proposed an alternative mechanism and theory for water transport consistent with experimental observations. This finding has direct implications for the design of high-performance desalination membranes.
In 2021, Elimelech was appointed Sterling Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, the university’s highest academic rank; the first engineering professor at Yale to earn this distinction.
ARKA is a world leader in the design, development, manufacture, integration and test of precision optics, telescopes and electro-optical payload systems for defense, aerospace and scientific applications. ARKA’s mission has grown to include groundbreaking communications, software development, and data processing capabilities, expanding their reach to new areas of innovation.
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