Suburban Crime: Child Porn Sting Nets 43-Year-Old Man

Here are some of Patch's top crime- and police-related stories from throughout the Milwaukee area in the last week. Click on a link to see the all the details.

Man nabbed in sex sting: A 43-year-old Oak Creek man is accused of distributing child pornography to a person he thought was a 14-year-old girl he met in a chatroom who was actually a detective from Virginia. A detective posed as a 14-year-old girl in a chatroom called "Voracious Vixens," when the man began chatting with him, saying he just had some sex dreams and "just woke up very horny, lol."

'Sexting' incident under investigation: Police are investigating an incident in which some students at Brookfield East High School were trading pictures of nude female students. The investigation began after the mother of one male student told police her son had been on an overnight trip for the soccer club when a friend showed him nude photos of a female student from the school.

Ex-NFL player in hot water: A former NFL player who also had a role in TV shows like "Touched by an Angel" has been charged with 12 misdemeanor counts of violating a domestic abuse injunction after prosecutors say he sent numerous emails to his ex-wife in violation of a court order. Bronzell La James Miller, who played for the St. Louis Rams and Jacksonville Jaguars, faces up to nine years in jail and $12,000 in fines, if convicted.

Sex with minors: A Racine teenager is accused of having sex with two underage girls, getting one of them pregnant and leaving both with a sexually transmitted disease. The 17-year-old faces up to 50 years in prison on the charges after being accused of having sex with the girls starting when they were as young as 13.

Big-time embezzlement: A 61-year-old Waukesha man was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison followed by four years of probation for . The former general manager at Heim Manufacturing Corp. stole the money from the company between 2003 and 2009.