Child Porn Arrest: Santa Rosa PD Says 12,000 Graphic Images Found

SONOMA COUNTY, CA — Santa Rosa police arrested a man Wednesday on suspicion of possessing child pornography. The Silicon Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children detected child pornography being downloaded and uploaded at an internet provider address in Santa Rosa this month, said SRPD police Sgt. Brenda Harrington.

Police received the images and interviewed several people and wrote multiple search warrants, Harrington said.

Detectives interviewed Ryan Imschweiler, 22, on Nov. 14 and seized computer devices from his home in unincorporated Sonoma County northeast of Santa Rosa.

Detectives discovered more than 12,000 videos and images of graphic child pornography on one of the devices, Harrington said. The device also contained the original child pornography images that started the investigation, according to Harrington.

Police said it does not appear that Imschweiler knew any of the children depicted in the pornographic images.

Imschweiler was arrested and booked in the Sonoma County jail on suspicion of felony possession of child pornography. He is being held on $40,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Sonoma County Superior Court.

By Bay City News Service

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