LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The spouse of a former Meridian Township Police Officer found suspect little one sexually abusive materials on his digital gadgets and confronted him a month earlier than reporting him to Michigan State Police.
That is one of many many new particulars from a closely redacted Michigan State Police report obtained by the 6 Information Investigates Crew within the case of Alexander Stachura. He was charged with 6 felonies on Dec. 9 involving possession of kid sexually abusive materials.
Alexander Stachura reserving {photograph}. (Ingham County)
The MSP report was launched by Meridian Township to six Information after a Freedom of Data Act request. Officers within the township had obtained the report upon studying of the investigation into Alexander Stachura, 38, in late October.
The report reveals Stachura’s spouse, whose identify has been redacted from the report, first found the suspected little one sexually abusive materials on Sept. 25, 2024. It alleges she “suspected” Stachura of some motion and the suspicion led to her looking his pill. What she suspected about him has been redacted from the report.
As she reviewed his pill she noticed he’d visited a questionable Reddit thread on his telephone — one thing she reported to MSP he denied. Upon assessment of his browser historical past and recordsdata on his pill, she recognized some historical past of concern, however what that consisted of is unclear as it’s redacted from the police report.
Stachura’s spouse recognized images of her “friends, co-workers” and others. Who else he had footage of was redacted from the report. These images have been in a “locked folder” on his Google Pictures account, the report reveals.
Stachura MSP Preliminary ReportDownload
She advised MSP officers she confronted Stachura, however his responses to her confrontation and allegations are redacted. The confrontation allegedly occurred on Sept. 26 or 27, 2024 when she first recognized the pictures and looking historical past.
Throughout an interview with MSP officers, she knowledgeable them Stachura, following the confrontation, did a manufacturing facility reset of the pill in query.
A lawyer suggested her to repeat the recordsdata from Stachura’s pill and laptop computer to a separate digital storage system and switch them over to legislation enforcement. That occurred on Oct. 27, 2024.
Whereas she was doing this, “she grabbed a gray flash drive they had around the house and plugged it into the computer to download the information from her phone.” It was then, the report reveals, “she discovered Alexander had stored files on the gray flash drive, which appeared to be backed up from his phone or an older phone.”
On the finish of the interview, she handed MSP officers two laptops, a pill and a flash drive. She mentioned the 2 laptops have been Stachura’s and she or he didn’t have the passwords to entry them.
MSP Detective Sgt. Thomas Gladney wrote within the affidavit filed in fifty fifth District Court docket looking for warrants for Stachura, that when he reviewed the thumb drive offered by Stachura’s spouse, he discovered “more than three of the images appeared to depict a post-pubescent teenage female engaging in sex acts or posing in a sexual manner.”
Digital proof embedded within the picture was in contrast with a database of identified little one pornography, Gladney wrote. The photographs have been confirmed to be of “a confirmed juvenile from the United Kingdom.”
Gladney wrote he contacted Stachura and seized all of his digital gadgets. A digital proof assessment recognized the identical photographs from the thumb drive discovered by his spouse have been additionally on his cellphone. The knowledge within the digital logs of Strachura’s iPhone revealed these photographs have been uploaded to his telephone on Oct. 3, 2022.
MSP and the Workplace of Ingham County Prosecutor John Dewane sought judicial approval for warrants for Stachura’s arrest on Dec. 9, 2024. He was arrested and arraigned on Dec. 10, 2024, with a bond of $20,000 set.
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He is due again in courtroom on the finish of January, and a preliminary listening to is scheduled for Feb. 4, 2025, courtroom data present.
Stachura was positioned on depart by the Meridian Township Police Division on Oct. 29, the day after his spouse offered MSP investigators together with his gadgets.
He was charged with 6 felonies on Dec. 9 in fifty fifth District Court docket. On Dec. 10, the day Meridian Officers say they realized of the approved felony warrants for Stachura, the company determined to finish his employment. He was a probationary officer on the time.
On Dec. 11, 2024, he was arraigned on 3 counts of utilizing a pc to commit against the law and three counts of possession of kid sexually abusive materials.
