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                "locator": "Paragraphs 2 and 5: arrested 'last Friday' (report dated 7 November 2025); charged with non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images, fraudulent use of deepfakes, stalking, and receiving stolen property.",
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          "The victim is not identified; their age and relationship to the accused are not reported.",
          "Police described stalking for about or over a year before reporting in November 2025. Exact start and end dates of the conduct are not stated; the late-October arrest is a procedural date.",
          "Conway Daily Sun reports, including one that search results describe as covering grand-jury indictments in January 2026, could not be read from this workspace (HTTP 451 for EEA requests); the case status after November 2025 is unverified.",
          "The earlier version of this record dated the events to 2024 and cited a bare publisher domain; those details are superseded."
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          "basis": "Event and affected-person locations are not stated in the inspected reports. They identify the accused as from Albany, New Hampshire, and the investigating agencies as Conway police, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office and state police. US proceedings are supported by the charges, New Hampshire custody and pending probable-cause hearing reported in November 2025; those facts do not establish the victim’s location.",
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