{"id":348214,"date":"2026-09-16T11:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348214\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:12:19","slug":"news-12-new-jersey-123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348214\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Three men are facing charges following an online child exploitation sting conducted by state police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Undercover officers posed as minors online to identify people seeking illegal sexual contact with children, according to state police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Among those arrested were a Pine Bush man, a Liberty man and a man from New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Leroy Bruyn, 54, of Pine Bush was charged with three counts of attempted second-degree rape and attempted endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Bruyn was arraigned in Orange County and remanded to the Orange County Jail. Bail was set at $15,000 cash, $30,000 bond or a $60,000 partially secured bond.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Stephane Pontoizeau, 39, of Mendham, New Jersey, was charged with attempted second-degree rape and attempted endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Pontoizeau was arraigned in Middletown and released on his own recognizance.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Ramon Josue Lopez-Moreno, 31, of Liberty, was charged with attempted endangering the welfare of a child.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Lopez-Moreno was issued an appearance ticket for Port Jervis City Court.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The operation was conducted with assistance from Port Jervis police, the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and other local, state and federal agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three men are facing charges following an online child exploitation sting conducted by state police. Undercover officers posed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-348214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348214","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=348214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}