Bend man jailed on charges alleging distribution of child sex abuse material online
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – A 30-year-old Bend man has been arrested on four counts of encouraging child sex abuse after a months-long investigation prompted by cyber-tip from a national organization found he was distributing child sex abuse material online, authorities said Thursday. More charges were filed after a search of his cellphone.
Detectives with the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children unit received the tip in February from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding an online account distributing child sex abuse material, Detective Sergeant Thomas Lilienthal said.
Search warrants and subpoenas were served to online providers over the following months and determined the person operating this account was identified as Jesus Andres Quintana of Bend. (Lilienthal provided a last name of Maybe, based on available ID, but jail and court records have listed him as Quintana.)
ICAC detectives contacted Quintana on July 18 and interviewed him, with the assistance of a Bend Police detective providing translations, Lilienthal said. A digital device was seized under a search warrant and Quintana was arrested on two first-degree and two second-degree counts of encouraging child sexual abuse.
Lilienthal said ICAC detectives also applied for and were granted a search warrant for analysis of Quintana’s cellphone. The sheriff’s office Digital Forensics Unit analyzed the phone over the past week and found more evidence of use and duplication of child sex abuse material.
On Tuesday, ICAC detectives filed three more counts each of the first- and second-degree charges as Quintana remains lodged in the county jail, held on $100,000 bail, Lilienthal said.
Court records show Quintana was arraigned July 19 on the initial formal charges and a week later on the four-count grand jury indictment, all tied according to the document to actions allegedly taken on Jan. 20. He is scheduled to enter a plea to those charges on August 16.
