Category Archive for : ‘IDAHO’

November 21, 2020
KTVB

CALDWELL, Idaho — Five men are facing various state and federal charges after Caldwell police, the state’s Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the Department of Homeland Security conducted a joint sting operation for child sex crimes.
Caldwell police made the announcement on Saturday afternoon and said in a release that the sting happened on Nov. 19 and 20 in the Treasure Valley.
The men arrested and the charges filed against them are:
• Jose Cadenas Jr., 36, of Caldwell was booked into the Canyon County Jail for enticing a child

November 2, 2020
Shelbie Harris
Idaho State Journal

BLACKFOOT — A former employee of Idaho State University convicted of embezzling $100,000 from the school in 2017 pleaded guilty to two child sex crime charges in Bingham County on Monday.
While appearing remotely from the Bingham County Jail in Blackfoot for a hearing held at the Bingham County Courthouse on Monday afternoon, Tyler Gene Liddle, 32, of Blackfoot, entered into a plea agreement with prosecutors that involved him pleading guilty to one count of distributing child pornography and one count of possessing or accessing child

July 27, 2020
Shelbie Harris
Idaho State Journal

BLACKFOOT — A former Idaho State University employee on felony probation for embezzling over $100,000 from the school now faces seven decades in prison for possessing child pornography, according to court records.
Bingham County prosecutors have charged Tyler Gene Liddle, 32, of Blackfoot, with five counts of felony sexual exploitation of a child stemming from an Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children and U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigation, according to the Idaho Office of the Attorney General news release.
The investigation also included the Blackfoot Police Department,

May 21, 2020
Argus Observer

PAYETTE — A former Fruitland Police Officer could be spending 10 years behind bars after a Friday sentencing hearing.
In front of Payette County Judge Susan Wiebe on Friday, Alexander Scott Plaza, who was born in 1994, was sentenced to a five-year fixed prison sentence, including five years indeterminate for each of his three counts of sexual battery of a minor and one count of sexual abuse of a minor. Those sentences will run concurrently.
Plaza entered a Rule 11 agreement on Jan. 17, changing his plea to guilty

February 6, 2020
Ruth Brown
Idaho Statesman

An Ada County District judge ordered a 52-year-old Boise man to serve up to 85 years in prison after he was convicted of making and distributing child pornography.
Police arrested Gunnar Ericsson on a warrant in September 2018 following a year-long investigation by the Boise Police Department. He could be eligible for parole after 15 years are served.
A jury found Ericsson guilty in November of sexual exploitation of a child and sexual abuse of a minor stemming from a 2010 incident. In total, he was convicted of

January 21, 2020
Ruth Brown
Idaho Statesman

A former Fruitland police officer initially charged with eight sex crimes against children in Payette County reached a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to four felonies on Friday.
Alexander Plaza, 25, was arrested in September on charges that covered alleged abuse between October 2017 and June 2019.
Plaza pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual battery of a child ages 16 or 17 and one count of sexual abuse of a child younger than age 16.
The abuse occurred when Plaza was off-duty. The Fruitland department confirmed last