DULUTH, Minn. — A federal jury convicted a Minnesota man for advertising, distributing, and possessing material depicting the sexual abuse of children.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, 47-year-old Craig Myran, of Bemidji, Minnesota, was an active participant on a website on the dark web that was dedicated to discussing and trafficking in child sexual abuse material.
For years, Myran used an account with a unique username to make over a thousand posts on this site, including at least one post in which he requested specific files of child sexual abuse material from other users, and another post in which he distributed files of child sexual abuse material to other users.
FBI law enforcement agents executed a warrant to search Myran’s apartment in Bemidji on Dec. 8, 2022, where they found numerous hard drives and a cell phone. A forensic examination of these devices uncovered evidence tying Myran to his unique account on the dark website, including files of the child sexual abuse material that he shared and requested on the website, as well as a message directed to his unique alias, and thousands of other images of child sexual abuse material.
A federal jury found Myran guilty Wednesday after a three-day trial on two counts of advertising child pornography, one count of distributing child pornography, and one count of possessing child pornography. A sentencing hearing will be scheduled at a later date.
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