{"id":291863,"date":"2026-07-09T22:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291863\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T22:21:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:21:14","slug":"news-12-westchester-five-men-from-new-york-and-new-jersey-arrested-in-child-exploitation-undercover-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291863\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Five Men From New York And New Jersey Arrested In Child Exploitation Undercover Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Five men from New York and New Jersey have been arrested for allegedly attempting to sexually exploit children online in Rockland County, according to New York State Police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The arrests were made during a multi-agency operation targeting internet crimes against children.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators said the suspects are from Spring Valley, Poughkeepsie, Brooklyn, Secaucus, New Jersey, and Ronkonkoma on Long Island.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The men face charges including attempted rape, attempted disseminating indecent material to a minor, attempted unlawful dealing with a child and attempted endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Among those arrested were Oleksandr Vershok, 36, of Brooklyn; Anthony Kamycki, 36, of Ronkonkoma; Ritchy Mercure, 24, of Spring Valley; Alex Garrett, 26, of Secaucus; and Bryan Wylong, 24, of Poughkeepsie.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">State police said four of the suspects were arraigned in Ramapo Town Court and remanded to the Rockland County Jail.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Wylong was arraigned in Orange County and remanded to the Orange County Jail.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities said the investigation was conducted through partnerships focused on combating internet crimes against children.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone who believes they may have been a victim or has information related to the suspects is asked to contact New York State Police Troop F Headquarters at 845-344-5300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five men from New York and New Jersey have been arrested for allegedly attempting to sexually exploit children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-291863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}