Jan 17, 2008 11:43 am US/Central
MN Man Investigated For Role In Child Porn Ring
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ―
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About 50,000 e-mails were found in the raid, including one from an account linked to the Chaska man.
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Federal authorities seized videos, computer equipment and pornographic books and magazines from a Chaska condominium last week as part of an international investigation into a child porn ring, according to federal documents.
The condo's resident has not been charged with any crime.
But according to documents unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, Europol, a pan-European law enforcement organization, told U.S. authorities that it was investigating people in 30 countries who were allegedly making, trading and possessing child pornography.
U.S. Postal Inspector J.K. Beinhorn said in court documents that in the fall of 2006, Italian authorities raided the home of an Italian national who ran a Web site depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
About 50,000 e-mails were found in the raid, including one from an account linked to the Chaska man.
The e-mail warned against corresponding with a man named Barry Ostrander, of Braham, Minn., because there were news reports that he was being investigated for making child porn. "Do Not e-mail this person, Because THEY ARE WATCHING all activity in that area," the e-mail said.
Ostrander admitted to secretly taping his teenage daughter and her friends, and certain girls at Braham High School, where he had been a teacher. He was sentenced in September to 15 years in prison.
In October, an undercover postal inspector in Maryland sent the Chaska man an e-mail offering to sell him pornography of 10-, 12- and 14-year-old girls, Beinhorn said. The Chaska man sent $160 in cash and a handwritten order form for six sexually explicit DVDs, she said.
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