VALLEY CITY, N.D. (KVRR) — A Valley City man arrested this past spring for having child sexual abuse material will avoid a trial by changing his plea. 50-year-old Mitchell Kohler pleaded not guilty in June to five counts of possession of certain materials prohibited. His change of plea hearing is set for Monday, one day before his trial was set…
WEST FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A West Fargo man is charged with ten felony counts of child porn. Court documents say Michael Wolcott of West Fargo shared child porn images with another user on the messenging app Kik. Girls in the clips are believed to be between 7 and 17. Authorities were tipped off to Wolcott’s actions by the National…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fargo man faces charges of having child porn and a deviate sexual act. Court documents show that 45-year-old Dennis Olsen caught the attention of Google and they reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. They in turn contacted North Dakota BCI which began an investigation. Olsen was stopped by Fargo Police on…
ABERDEEN, S.D. (KVRR) — A federal judge has sentenced an Ortonville, Minnesota man for production of child porn. 45-year-old Jason Honetschlager was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2023. The investigation discovered that throughout 2023, Honetschlager targeted teens in the Milbank, South Dakota area. He enticed minors through Snapchat…
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent has been charged by federal complaint with production of child pornography. Court documents say 51-year-old Timothy Gregg of Eagan, attempted, coerced and enticed a minor to take part in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child porn. The father of the minor victim discovered multiple images and videos…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A judge sentences a Fargo man to 32 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for having materials depicting the sexual exploitation of minors. Dustin Fredrickson, 37, is also ordered to pay $18,000 in restitution to the victims identified in the videos and pictures. He pleaded guilty in November. Fredrickson’s criminal activity was…
Carson QuamFARGO (KVRR/KFGO) – Former Cass County Sheriff’s Deputy Carson Quam is charged with ten counts of possession of child porn. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. Court records show investigators from North Dakota BCI found 10 photos of child porn on Quam’s phone. The sheriff was notified of the investigation in September and Quam resigned in November….
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — A White Earth, Minnesota Man is sentenced to nearly 25 Years in prison for child porn. According to court documents, 34-year-old Ryan Thompson, also known as “Ryan Townsend”, took pornographic images with a minor in December 2020. The 13-year-old victim used her school-issued laptop to message the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. She told them Thompson began sleeping…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — A Grand Forks man is facing child porn charges after investigators allegedly found 10 photos depicting child sex abuse. 59-year-old Danny Lane was linked to a Kik account that was flagged last October for child porn by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. On June 25, Grand Forks Police served a search warrant…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — The defense team for a Grand Forks man sentenced to decades in prison in a high-profile federal child pornography case is appealing his sentence to the Eighth Circuit Court. Nicholas Morgan-Derosier pleaded guilty to seven charges of possessing and distributing child porn in September and was sentenced last month. The prosecution recommended a 30-year sentence, but…
