One man has been convicted and another has fled the country after Orange County authorities say a sting operation caught the pair in a scheme that convinced elderly targets they were in possession of child pornography. Local

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New York resident Oles Kovalchuk pleaded guilty Sept. 25 in Orange County Circuit Court. While he was originally charged with obtaining money under false pretenses, a felony, he accepted a deal that allowed him to plead guilty to a misdemeanor trespassing charge. He was sentenced to a year behind bars, fully suspended, and ordered to repay his victim $21,000.

Kovalchuk's accomplice Vladyslav Novoseltsev remains on the run, however, according to

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