KANDIYOHI COUNTY, Minn. (KVRR) — A Royalton man pleads guilty to producing sexually explicit images of a minor. According to court documents, 35-year-old Andrew John Groen contacted a minor using the messaging app TextMe. Groen, who knew the victim was a minor, identified himself in the messages as a 19-year-old man. On multiple occasions, Groen coerced the minor to send…
EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. (KVRR) – An East Grand Forks man is sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography. David Detwiler was taken into custody last September after investigators found suspected child porn on electronic devices while executing a search warrant at his home. The case started with a tip. Numerous agencies were involved…
MINOT, N.D. (KVRR/KFGO) — Bond is set at $5,000 for a Ramsey County Sheriff’s deputy charged in a child porn case. 24-year-old Michael Hull appeared in court via interactive video from jail in Minot. Hull is charged with possession of prohibited materials, a class C felony. The judge set several conditions for his release including surrendering his passport and having…
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — Grand Forks Police identify the subject of a SWAT raid last night in the city. He is 21-year-old Sam Payne, Jr. of Fargo. Police say Payne was wanted on two active warrants for possession of child pornography and promoting an obscene act by a minor. Grand Forks Regional SWAT Team was called out to search…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Spirit Lake man who pleaded guilty to producing, distributing and possessing child porn gets 30 years in prison. Court documents show 29-year-old Johnson Tollefson produced child porn in Dilworth. It depicted a toddler-age female. He then distributed the child porn to other users of the social media network Tumblr in exchange for other child porn….
EAST GRAND FORKS, N.D. (KVRR) — A cyber-tip that suspected child pornography was being viewed on an electronic device leads to the arrest of an East Grand Forks man. 35-year-old David Detwiler was arrested in the 2100 block of 8th Avenue Northwest on Tuesday. Numerous agencies were involved including East Grand Forks Police, Minnesota BCA and Pine to Prairie Drug…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – A Fargo man is sentenced to 27 years in federal prison for distribution and possession of child porn. Forty-two-year-old Jeffrey Buckmeier also will be under supervised release for life and has to pay $84,000 to the children in his child porn collection. The case came to law enforcement after the National Center For Missing and Exploited…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A former teacher at Moorhead Alternative Learning Center is jailed on child porn charges. 25-year-old Caleb Brush of Fargo was arrested earlier this month and is charged with two felonies in Cass County District Court. The counts against Brush include: promoting or directing an obscene sexual performance by a minor and possession of certain prohibited materials….
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR) — Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota joins a long list of Republican senators announcing their intention to vote “no” on confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. After meeting the judge this week, Cramer said she’s intellectually and academically qualified for the court. But he worries her judicial philosophy is far to the left…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Fargo Police Department is notifying the community that high risk sex offender, Calvin Till Jr., is now living at 734 College Street North in Fargo. Till was convicted in 2020 of 4 counts of Possession of Child Pornography in Burleigh County. He was also convicted in 2016 of Patronize Minor Commercial Sex Activity in Burleigh County….
