child pornography

A former bishop for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who is facing charges related to child pornography will be prosecuted in federal court.  Investigators arrested 62-year-old Timothy Hallows of Kaysville last fall for possessing and distributing illegal materials.  ...

A missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is in custody in connection with a child pornography investigation in California.   Police in Mountain View say they arrested 19-year-old Hayden Hunter of Pleasant Grove yesterday.  ...

Prosecutors in Davis County have formally charged a former bishop for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on several charges related to the possession of child pornography. A judge ordered that 61-year-old Timothy Hallows of Kaysville be held without bail...

A bishop for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kaysville is being held without bail after investigators say they found him in possession of thousands of images of child pornography. According to arrest records, investigators received tips from Skype in August that 61-year-old Timothy Hallows had uploaded images using their platforms...

Authorities say two men from Utah are among hundreds of suspects from almost 40 countries who have been arrested for online child pornography. Documents released this week by the Department of Justice confirmed Nikolas Bradshaw of Bountiful and Michael Gibbs of Holladay have been charged in connection to a South Korean dark web child porn site funded by Bitcoin...

A Hurricane man accused of having child pornography is arrested after he skips a court date.  Sixty-six-year-old Russell McGonigle was arrested on a 50-thousand-dollar warrant Tuesday and booked into the Purgatory Correctional Facility in Hurricane.  ...

The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office filed 19 counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor against Ayoola Ajayi Tuesday. Ajayi is charged with the murder of University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck. Officials say the Salt Lake City Police Department seized Ajayi’s computer during their investigation into Lueck’s murder. They say they fo...

A man convicted of having child pornography two years ago is facing charges a second time. Joel Stephen Sherrill of Saint George was charged Wednesday with six counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. An officer who arrested Sherrill in July for drinking, a violation of his probation  - discovered a phone inside the seat of Sherill's walker that contained images of child pornography. ... Read Mor

Millions of images of sexually abused children are traded among predators across the nation. Child pornography arrests are on a rapid rise in the state, including in Southern Utah, according to officials at the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. “...

Officials say child pornography arrests are at their highest peak in Utah in five years. In 2013, 133 people were arrested for downloading child pornography, and in 2018 that number nearly doubled to 226. Dixie State Police told St. George News that better law-enforcement efforts and more reporting are driving the numbers...