Nov 21, 2024 | By: Lakeland News

Bemidji Man Convicted for Possessing and Sharing Child Sexual Abuse Material

A federal jury has convicted a Bemidji 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 James Myran 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 thousands posts on the 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 December 8th, 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 web site, 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 yesterday 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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