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Stella’s Yang sentenced for sex crime

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September 17, 2014
Charlee Mills


Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Stella man was sentenced in federal court for transporting a minor across state lines for illicit sex.

Tong Yang, 46, of Stella, was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Greg Kays to 13 years in federal prison without parole.

Yang, who pleaded guilty on May 1, 2014, admitted that he traveled to Minnesota to pick up a 15-year-old girl and bring her back to Missouri on Dec. 7, 2013, with the intent to engage in illicit sexual activity.

Yang had contacted the minor victim a couple of weeks earlier by sending her a friend request on Facebook. Yang talked to her about coming to live with him in Missouri and told her he owned his own business. The minor victim went to her mother’s house to retrieve some clothing on Dec. 6, 2013, and while there, she asked Yang to come get her. She snuck out and met with Yang in front of her mother’s house the next day, and they drove to a hotel in Neosho where they engaged in unprotected sex.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Carney. It was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the Cassville Police Department and the Neosho Police Department.




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