Jackson County Sheriff’s Office deputies and the US Marshals’ Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force along with Central Point Police Department, and the Grants Pass Department of Public Safety assisted with an operation that included warrants served throughout Jackson and Josephine County.
Investigations led the task force throughout the Rogue Valley including addresses in Ashland, Central Point, Grants Pass, Medford, Talent, and White City. These locations included where suspects uploaded child exploitation images, as well as their residences and places of employment.
Although the cases are not connected, in total investigations uncovered nearly 7000 images of child exploitation among the six suspects. Felony charges include 44 first-degree, and 17 second-degree Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse. Out of those arrested, one-third had local child victims.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children tips started each investigation, which led to subpoenas, followed by search warrants at the respective residences. Digital devices were seized, additional warrants were obtained, and the digital devices were forensically examined at the Southern Oregon High Tech Crimes Task Force where evidence was located.
Anthony Paul Craker, 33, of Ashland, was arrested on 15 felony counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the First Degree. A cyber tip led investigators to an address in Talent, Oregon, where child exploitation images were uploaded. During the course of the investigation it was discovered that 33 year old Anthony Paul Craker, was communicating sexually with underage minors and was found to be in possession of more than 700 child exploitation images. Craker was arrested Thursday, on 15 felony counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the First Degree in Ashland and is now lodged at the Jackson County jail on $250,000 bail.
A National Center for Missing and Exploited Children cyber tip led investigators to an address in Medford where the images were uploaded to social media. 31 year old Jon Paul Bouchard, was arrested on charges of two felony counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the First Degree in White City, and is now lodged at the Jackson County jail.
Omar De Jesus Galvan, 19, of White City, was arrested on 10 felony counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the First Degree in White City where child exploitation images were uploaded to social media. During the course of investigations, De Jesus Galvan was found to be in possession of more than 3600 images of child exploitation. He was arrested at his place of employment in White City, and is now lodged at the Jackson County jail.
A cyber tip led investigators to another address in Central Point, as well as a business in Medford where child exploitation images were uploaded to social media. Investigations discovered that 60 year old Stephen Bernard Habermann, had images of local children downloaded from social media and altered so the victims looked nude which were then traded online for child pornography. Habermann was found to be in possession of more than 500 child exploitation images and was arrested in Grants Pass on 11 felony counts and lodged at the Josephine County jail.
Investigators in Medford arrested 39 year old Christopher Randall Savage where child exploitation images were uploaded to social media. Savage was found to be in possession of more than 2000 images of child exploitation and was arrested at his place of employment in Medford on two felony counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the First Degree, and 12 felony counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree, and is now lodged at the Jackson County jail.
Matthew Alan Desmet, 38, of Central Point, was arrested on four felony counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the First Degree, and five felony counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the Second Degree in Central Point after a cyber tip led investigators to an address in Central Point where child exploitation images were uploaded to social media. Desmet was found to be in possession of 19 child exploitation images and is now lodged at the Jackson County jail on $250,000 bail.
