CSI student body president arrested on child porn charges

Lorien Nettleton, KIVI

TWIN FALLS (KIVI) — Dylan Ray was student assemblage president and a residence advisor astatine nan College of Southern Idaho. Channel 6 interviewed him successful April for a communicative astir a candidate’s forum. At nan time, he was nether investigation for sharing integer media containing Child Sexual Exploitation Material. Ray was arrested connected May 7 and arraigned connected May 8 successful Twin Falls.

(Below is nan transcript from nan broadcast story.)

20-year-old Dylan Ray was nan student assemblage president astatine nan College of Southern Idaho, arsenic good arsenic a resident advisor astatine Eagle View Apartments.

Now, he’s successful custody successful Twin Falls aft an investigation ended pinch 15 felony charges related to possession of sexually exploitive materials involving minors.

We really interviewed Ray conscionable past period up of nan campaigner forum hosted by nan school’s student government.

We didn’t cognize he was actively being investigated astatine nan time.

That began successful January.

I obtained nan tribunal documents successful nan lawsuit that opportunity Ray uploaded a video to Snapchat depicting an teen engaged successful a activity enactment pinch an adult.

The societal media institution flagged nan video, uncovering it contained kid intersexual battle material.

A extremity was sent to nan National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who forwarded nan accusation connected to nan Idaho Attorney General’s Internet Crimes Against Children unit.

The affidavit specifications really investigators obtained hunt warrants complete respective months… to find nan personality of who was utilizing nan relationship — linking an IP reside from nan Eagle Hall student residence to telephone and different net relationship records.

Ray is not charged pinch producing videos but is accused of exchanging messages and images pinch different users.

Though Ray has been charged pinch these crimes, it does not needfully mean he committed them. Everyone is presumed guiltless until they are proven guilty.