Search Warrant Leads to Arrest of CV Man on Child Pornography Charges

4/3/24

A 48-year-old Chino Valley man has been arrested for Explotation of a minor after Department of Homeland Security Investigations contacted Chino Valley Police Department Detectives with information that known child pornography had been downloaded in Chino Valley.

On March 14th, an investigation was initiated, and the location of the downloads came back to an address in the 2300 block of Cochise Drive. Investigators learned Kurt Colin lived at this address.

A search warrant obtained from the Chino Valley Municipal Court was served on March 21 at Colin’s residence, where digital evidence was seized. A forensic exam and review of files from the digital evidence was performed by a Computer Forensic Analyst with Homeland Security. Ten images of Child Sexual Abuse Material were found.

On March 29, Chino Valley Police Officers arrested Kurt Colin and booked him into the Yavapai County Jail in Prescott on nine counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Minor.