FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — A Marshall County man has been sentenced to 120 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for child porn possession. According to court documents, 64-year-old Keith Allen Barsness, of Grygla, possessed multiple images and videos showing young kids engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Law enforcement had a search warrant for his home…
MAYVILLE, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – A rural Mayville man who shot and killed himself last week was under investigation for child pornography. A search warrant application from the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation filed in Traill County District Court says 23 uploaded files containing child pornography were traced to the cell phone of 59-year-old Steve Volla. Photos and videos were…
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (KVRR-KFGO) – A district judge has set bond at $5000 for a Ramsey County Sheriff’s deputy charged in a child pornography case. Twenty-four-year-old Michael Hull appeared in court Tuesday morning via interactive video from jail in Minot. Hull is charged with possession of prohibited materials – a class C felony. Judge Lonnie Olson set several conditions for…
T. Denny SanfordSIOUX FALLS, S.D. – A Minnehaha County judge has ruled that there is no basis to keep documents related to the child pornography investigation of banker and philanthropist T. Denny Sanford sealed. Judge James Power said in his opinion filed Thursday that the affidavits which supported the search warrants in the investigation should be made public under South…
State Sen. Ray HolmbergBISMARCK, N.D. – North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator announced Monday that he would resign following a report that he had traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges. Republican Ray Holmberg, 79, rose to become one of the state’s most powerful lawmakers in a career that spanned 46 years. Holmberg’s resignation, effective…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) – A Moorhead man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for distributing child pornography. Federal prosecutors say 36-year-old Joey David Gonzales used email and other online media to advertise, solicit, and trade images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children between 2016 and 2020. In August, 2021, Gonzales…
T. Denny SanfordFARGO (KVRR) – Search warrant affidavits indicate that phone, email and computer records were seized as part of a child pornography investigation involving billionaire philanthropist T. Denny Sanford. The investigation into Sanford was reported last year by ProPublica and the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. Court documents in the case were initially sealed and referred to Sanford as “an…
MOORHEAD, Minn. (KVRR) – A Moorhead man was sentenced Tuesday to 90 days of electronic home monitoring and seven years of supervised release after pleading guilty to child pornography charges. Twenty-one-year-old Garrett Grommesh earlier pleaded guilty to one count of distributing child pornography and 3 counts of possessing child pornography. As part of a plea agreement, seven other charges were…
T. Denny SanfordPIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Supreme Court is weighing whether to unseal a search warrant and affidavits in an investigation into billionaire banker-turned-philanthropist T. Denny Sanford for possible possession of child pornography. The court documents are sealed and refer only to “an implicated individual.” Attorneys did not name Sanford as they made their arguments to the court Tuesday….
FARGO (KVRR) – An Idaho man accused of sexually exploiting children and producing child porn in Alaska, could have additional victims in North Dakota or Idaho. That’s according to the FBI. According to federal court documents, 39-year-old Christopher Panagiotou-Scigliano made a minor engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing child porn. The man has been indicted in…
