JUNEAU, Alaska – A Ketchikan man was sentenced today to 13 years and 4 months in prison for distributing child pornography through a group messaging platform. According to court documents, Walter William Onstad, 46, was an administrator of a messaging group known as “Anything Goes.” The chat was used exclusively to exchange child pornography, with […]
Homeland Security Investigations is seeking to identify other potential victims. ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A federal grand jury in Alaska returned an indictment charging a Washington man with cyberstalking victims and distributing child sexual abuse materials. The defendant, Kaden Ollila, 20, of Tacoma, Washington, was arrested on March 21, 2024. According to court documents, on Jan. […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Anchorage woman was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison for her role in a conspiracy to produce child sexual abuse materials. According to court documents, Denali Brehmer, 22, and her co-conspirator Darin Schilmiller, 25, conspired to murder Cynthia Hoffman in June 2019 while Schilmiller was residing in Indiana. While they […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Eagle River man was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in prison for sexually abusing a minor in order to produce and possess child pornography. According to court documents, Michael Vernon Ross, 32, began sexually abusing a 7-year-old child in 2017. The abuse occurred weekly and lasted for multiple years. Ross documented […]