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Forsberg Criminal Complaint
Forsberg Criminal Complaint
E-FILED
Thursday, 17 October, 2019 03:07:06 PM
Clerk, U.S. District Court, ILCD
AO 91 (Rev . 11/1 I J Criminal Complaint
CRIMINAL COMPLAINT
L the complainant in this case, state that the following is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
On or about the date(s) of Nov 4, 2018, Jul 12 & Sep 30, 2019 in the county of Champaign in the
Central District of ____lll_in_o_is_ __ _ , the defendant(s) violated:
Date: 10/16/2019
J .JuJge ·s signature
City and state: Urbana , Illinois Eric I. Long , U.S. Magistrate Judge
Primed name and title
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AFFIDAVIT
Patrick Simons, Sergeant Champaign Police Department, being duly sworn ort
Champaign, Illinois, and have been employed there from September, 2007 to present. I
have over twelve years in law enforcement with the Champaign Police Department. I
have been assigned to the Criminal Investigations Division High Tech Crimes Unit of the
Champaign Police Department for over eight years. I have received extensive training in
cell phone examiner having obtained the following cell phone certifications; Cellebrite
and federal, involving computer crimes, and child pornography resulting in arrests and
seizures. I have also been involved in the execution of numerous search warrants.
enforcement agents involved in this and other computer crime investigations. Since this
affidavit is being submitted for the limited purpose of securing an arrest warrant, I have
not included each and every fact known to me concerning this investigation. I have set
forth only the facts that I believe are necessary to establish probable cause to believe that
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Milton FORSBERG committed violations of Title 18 United States Code, Sections 2252
and 2252A.
Statutory Authority
Investigation
me by the Office of the Illinois Attorney General, Internet Crimes Against Children
(ICAC) Task Force, of which I am a member. The ICAC provided information obtained
by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children from the software company
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Incorporated reported that suspected child pornography was located in an account that
5. The Cyber Tip detailed that seven images were uploaded from a user
familiar to me based on my involvement in a local amateur radio club. Milt Forsberg has
the amateur radio call sign "K9QZI" as assigned by the Federal Communication
Commission. Milt Forsberg has also been an active board member for many years and
was the current treasurer at the time of this Cyber Tip report. Law enforcement conducted
open source searches for [email protected] and located images of Milt standing next to the
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and his penis erect. The male appears to be fourteen to sixteen years old.
b. file_IMG_6827.JPG - A male naked from the waist down lying on his back.
His legs are spread and he is manipulating his erect penis. This male
erect penis in his hand. The male appears to have semen on his chest. The
years old.
years old.
were uploaded from the Internet Protocol (IP) Address 70.225.162.74 on November 4,
2018, 04:22:44 UTC (2322 CST). This IP Address resolved back to AT&T Internet services.
An administrative subpoena was obtained for the account on March 22, 2019. On April 6,
2019, AT&T Internet Services provided account information that listed the address on the
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800 block of West Charles Street Champaign, IL. The customer name is listed as Milton
file_IMG_7203.JPG were uploaded from the Internet Protocol (IP) Address 70.225.160158
on November 11, 2018, 05:21:06 UTC (2321 CST). This IP Address resolved back to AT&T
Internet services. An administrative subpoena was obtained for the account on March 22,
2019. On April 6, 2019, AT&T Internet Services provided account information that listed
the address 100 block of Flora Drive Champaign, IL. The customer name is listed as a
female, B.A.
certified letter from the Boy Scouts of America National Council. This letter served as
mandated notification of abuse to the Illinois State Police and to the Champaign Police
Department. The letter details that Attorney Andrew Van Arsdale of California
represents a victim who alleged he was sexually abused as a child by "Milt Forsberg."
The alleged incident occurred in Champaign in 1965 when the victim was thirteen years
old.
11. I know that Milt Forsberg has been involved in Boy Scouts for over forty
years. He continues to assist local Boy Scout troops obtain Radio Merit Badges and also
with an annual event called Jamboree-on-the-Air, where Boy Scouts make amateur radio
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Illinois. On September 30, 2019, myself and other officers with the ~hampaign police
13. Forsberg was present and the sole occupant of the residence. Based on my
14. At the foot of Forsberg's bed, in his bedroom, I observed multiple printed
sexually explicit images. The images are printed on high quality glossy 8 x 10 paper and
at least three images depict prepubescent male children. In one photo, a male child
approximately ten to twelve years old, is wearing only a red shirt and socks. His genitals
are visible and are the focal point of the image; the child is seated and appears to be
4-5 years old, is completely nude and urinating near a body of water and looking at his
genitals. Forsberg attempted to conceal these pictures with his cane while the officers
15. Forsberg denied any sexual attraction to mmors and denied any
inappropriate contact with minors. When confronted with the images located on the
premises, Forsberg stated that he printed the image (of the male in the red shirt and socks)
because he thought it was funny. He stated that he did not intentionally look at images
of underage boys.
16. Law enforcement seized nine hard drives, three computer processing units,
four iPads, two cellular telephones and hundreds of external storage devices such as USB
thumb drives and disks. Forsberg offered the pin code for his iPad, Serial No.
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browsed Internet websites and located images of child pornography, downloading them
b. The web history shows website addresses that are indicative of the user
searching the message boards of these Russian websites for key words such
e. I also located images stored on Forsberg' s iPad in the Hidden Photo Album
head.
11. IMG_2051 .JPG- Four nude males, under the age of ten, standing in the
m. IMG_2052.JPG- Four nude males, under the age of ten, being sprayed in
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and laying on their backs. One male, who is under a sheet, has his hand
17. I located in excess of one hundred images of minor males between the ages
of eight to fourteen years old, mostly nude and posed in a lewd and lascivious manner.
I also located at least one image from the Adobe Cyber Tip located on this device.
colony. Forsberg stated he took the pictures under a press pass from the Champaign
News Gazette. The images from the nudist colony were organized in a manner where he
separated the photos of adults from the photos of children. There were six photographs
located in the lid of the Kodak photograph paper box that depicted nude juvenile females