My wife was just telling me that WNEW NY ex DJ Dave Herman was arrested . I loved listening to him back in the 70's to the early 90's . I couldn't believe what she was saying he was charged with . I will not get into the charges because they are truly disgusting . I kind of doubt this was the first time he was doing the type of thing he was arrested for . I hope he has a very rough prison life if you know what I mean.
And you wonder how long he's been doing this. I was just listening to one of contemporaries on Classic vinyl a few minutes ago, Meg Griffin. Dave, Meg, Pete and Scott were a big part of my youth.
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I grew up with WNEW-FM as well.....he was never my favorite....always thought he had a condescending tone to his voice. Preferred Scott Muni, Vin Scelsa, and Tom Morrera.
If he really did this......and it looks like it......he's total scum..
And you wonder how long he's been doing this. I was just listening to one of contemporaries on Classic vinyl a few minutes ago, Meg Griffin. Dave, Meg, Pete and Scott were a big part of my youth.
DJ Dave Herman sex case: Attorney hints at entrapment defense Attorney says entrapment defense possible for DJ
Legendary rock DJ Dave Herman was actually trying to hook up with the attractive 36-year-old woman he thought he met on a raunchy website and not her 6-year-old daughter as federal authorities contend, his lawyer told The Journal News on Wednesday.
The woman “Kris” and girl “Lexi” were actually created by an undercover investigator from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office who began communicating with Herman on Motherless.com in November. And after Herman bought them airline tickets to St. Croix purportedly so he could have sex with the girl, he was arrested last week by federal authorities when he showed up at the airport to meet the pair.
But his lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, said an entrapment defense might be appropriate once all the chats are reviewed in context — and not just the salacious ones revealed in the federal complaint that had Herman promising not to hurt the girl even though he might have to be “forceful” with her and stating that “age 6 is the perfect time to start her being loved that way.”
Agnifilo visited Herman in the St. Croix jail and said his client was hooked when the investigator sent him a picture of an attractive woman.
“He’s really laden with the gravity of the charge. The charge is a horrific charge,” Agnifilo said. “What he said ... was ‘I never intended to do anything with the child. I was interested in the woman. The woman seemed interested in me.’ ”
It wasn’t the only case the Bergen cybercrime unit was working on Motherless.com. On the same day investigators met Herman there, the unit snared a Florida sex offender who urged the “mother” to make her daughter available to him.
Herman hosted WNEW’s “Rock & Roll Morning Show” for more than two decades.
Authorities said he lived in Airmont but that is where a daughter lives and Agnifilo said his client lived primarily in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
Using the handle David121482, Herman first joined Motherless.com in September 2011, when he was 75.
His profile picture is of a man far younger and he describes himself as a single father of a teenage girl. “Wife died when she was 5 so just the 2 of us ever since,” his profile reads. “Interested in other incest families, mothers who are involved with their children and all extreme or unusual family relationships.”
On Nov. 27, 2012, the investigator went onto the site as “Kris” and soon began chatting with Herman.
He asked to speak privately by instant messaging and soon asked if she was sexually active with her daughter, according to the complaint.
He told her that he found 6-year-old girls to be “incredibly sexy, soft and their innocence is also a huge turn-on to me,” according to the complaint.
Over the next several months, Herman made several attempts to set up a sexual liaison with the girl, either at his Manhattan office or at her home, which he believed was in Bergen County, according to investigators. He eventually proposed a tryst at his home in St. Croix and arranged the trip in a phone conversation with “Kris” last month.
Agnifilo said Herman’s blurb on the site was a fabrication —“an absolutely-imagined second life”, he called it —and that he did not believe Herman had any similar exchanges with anyone else there. He said Herman stopped communicating with “Kris” for awhile and questioned why, if Herman was so eager, the sting would take a year.
“He’s a 77-year-old man, about to be 78, being spoken to and possibly manipulated by a professional,” Agnifilo said.
The page lists 36 friends and shows Herman last signed in on Oct. 21, three days before he was arrested.
Also on Nov. 27, the Bergen County investigator began communicating on Motherless.com with Thomas Harris, a 33-year-old sex offender from Lee County, Fla. Harris tried to get her to consent to a sexual tryst with the 6-year-old girl.
Information about the communication was passed to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office in May, and Harris was charged with violating sex-offender registration rules.
Besides those two arrests and unrelated to the Bergen cybercrime unit, a married New Jersey man was arrested on federal charges in Massachusetts this year after a lengthy online sexual relationship with a 15-year-old Cape Cod girl he met on Motherless.com. According to court records, Anthony Scarano would Skype with the girl and had her send him dozens of explicit photos and videos of hers Scarano pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Herman was charged with attempted interstate transport of a minor for sex, punishable by at least 10 years and up to life in prison.
He was ordered held pending his return to federal custody in New Jersey, which is expected within a few weeks.
News of Herman’s arrest continues to reverberate among longtime fans from his days on air, but also among those who knew him from his association with Camp Pokono Ramona in New Jersey.
Herman was there for more than a dozen years, beginning in 1943 when his father, the rabbi of the Mosholu Jewish Center in the Bronx, bought the camp.
He had already become a disc jockey in the early 1960s and was married with two young daughters when he took two summers off to return to camp as director and head girls’ counselor while his father was recuperating from a heart attack, according to a history of the camp that Herman wrote for the Pokono Ramona alumni web page.
Campers from that era were shocked to learn of the federal charges, one remembering Herman as a “cool cat,” with his long hair and sideburns long before that was popular.
Another, Joyce Broser of New Jersey, who attended the camp throughout the 1960s, said she was “mortified” but that there was never a whiff of controversy surrounding Herman.
She said it was always a big deal to get a ride across camp on Herman’s Vespa and when he became a famous disc jockey; everyone from the camp was proud to have known him.
She has spoken with several camp alums over the past week and all expressed outrage of an alleged side of Herman they never suspected.
“We’re sick to our stomachs. It gives us the creeps,” she said. “We loved Dave Herman. Everybody looked up to him.”
Former WNEW Radio Host Appears In NJ Court On Sex Charge
A former WNEW radio show host remains in custody following an appearance in federal court in New Jersey on charges he tried to transport a 7-year-old girl to the U.S. Virgin Islands for sex.
Dave Herman, the retired host of the “Dave Herman Rock and Roll Show,” was handcuffed and wore a yellow prison jumpsuit during Wednesday’s court appearance. He appeared gaunt, WCBS 880′s Monica Miller reported.
The 77-year-old appeared to be crying as he looked into the gallery, the Associated Press reported.
According to documents, in November of 2012, Herman began a series of chats on a website with an undercover officer from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office.
Herman believed that he was communicating with a 36-year-old single mother with a then 6-year-old daughter.
Over the course of the following months, Herman had multiple telephone and online communications with the officer during which he allegedly indicated his desire to engage in sexual activity with the officer’s fictitious daughter, authorities said.
“I think that the evidence in total is going to show that Herman was interested in the mother and the mother was introducing the concept of the daughter as part of the undercover scenario,” defense attorney Marc Agnifilio told Miller. “He was on a chat site that dealt mostly with incest.”
In early 2013, Herman told the undercover officer that he would like to fly the pair down to spend a few days with him in St. Croix so that he could engage in sexual activity with the daughter, authorities said. On Sept. 30, Herman purchased airline tickets for them to fly from LaGuardia Airport to St. Croix, authorities said.
Herman is charged with attempting to transport a minor in interstate commerce with the intent of engaging in illegal sexual activity. He could face life in prison if convicted.
Herman is being held in Essex County without bail.
DJ Dave Herman indicted for trying to have sex with 7-year-old girl
Jailed rock DJ Dave Herman was indicted Tuesday for enticing a 7-year-old girl into a trip to the Virgin Islands for a sexual encounter.
The Newark Federal Court jury returned the indictment against the 78-year-old former WNEW-FM morning host, who was jailed immediately after his Oct. 24 arrest at the St. Croix airport.
The once-revered, now-reviled Herman was charged with a single count of attempting to transport a minor to engage in sexual activity.
He was busted in a sting operation by the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office.
Herman — formerly an on-air pal of rock gods Bruce Springsteen and George Harrison — faces 10 years in prison if convicted. The DJ had homes in the Virgin Islands and Airmont, N.Y.
His attorney did not immediately return a call for comment Tuesday.
But prosecutors said Herman penned a creepy come-on to the intended victim's mother — who was actually an undercover detective in the prosecutor's office.
In the missive, Herman wrote that "age 6 is the perfect time to start her being loved." Prosecutors also charged that he intended to get the child intoxicated before abusing her.
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