AUSTIN, Minn. — An Austin man has been accused of producing and purveying porn of children, with lewd video of kids as young as 7 or 8 and and one infant being abused. Jason Dean Vandeweer, age 40, was arrested after a search of his home, where police reported finding evidence to support 14 felony counts. On his elect9jic devices, police reported finding 82,000 images and 12,000 videos. Besides confiscating the devices, police took several firearms in illegal possession. Also working against Vanderweer is that he had been a registered predator offender.
How it came down
The arrest was a model of interagency coordination over four months. Austin police were tipped by gheMinnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which had been advised by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which head learned that Microsoft had detected a user uploading multiple files of suspected child sexual abuse material. The provider service T-Mobile then provided information identifying the suspect’s online address.
Vandeweer. Charged with producing, trafficking lewd child images.