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Thursday, June 24, 2010 | 1:04 p.m.
Jonathon Kohler
A 28-year-old Henderson man has been arrested on child pornography charges after police say they discovered graphic images and videos of underage girls on his computer.
Jonathon Kohler was arrested June 16 in connection with 10 counts of distributing pornography of a minor and 10 counts of possession of child pornography, all felonies.
Police detectives noticed Kohler’s alleged involvement with child porn in January when they came across an Internet IP address that was sharing numerous file names indicative of child porn on the Gnutella file-sharing network.
They traced the IP address to Kohler, who police say was using his home computer in the 3200 block of Oil Painting Walk.
After getting a search warrant, authorities conducted a search at the home and did a forensic preview of a black Dell computer in the front office of the house. The laptop contained several videos of child pornography, police said.
Kohler spoke with detectives and admitted to downloading the child pornography onto his computer. He told officers that his age preference was girls between the ages of 14 and 16, although an analysis of the computer showed many girls were much younger, according to the arrest report.
Police said Kohler told them he has been viewing child porn for a decade. Kohler lived in the home with his wife, who police say didn't know about the child porn.
He is being held in the Clark County Detention Center without bail.
Neuter him.
He's held without bail.
The dude who killed his friend @ Luxor is free & not presently charged.
I hope the wife has the common sense and smarts to kick his sorry a$$ to the curb and not try to defend the poor sick slob like so many pathetic women do.
Would be a lot more comments if he had a Latino surname.
Despicable. Just plain despicable.
Why were the detective names omitted?
Who authorized the warrant?
Doesn't the public have the right to know who's monitoring their Internet activities and issuing computer search warrants based on "indicative file sharing"?
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ThisOneGuy, gmag39, and Harley all make valid points.
Although I am glad the guy was found out, it sure does make you wonder about Big Brother
this guy just needs help, not jail.
What the heck was he thinking, everyone knows that only priests are allowed to do this.
Oh god its in Inspirada! Way to ruin my neighborhood A-hole!
Maybe he doesn't have a pop up blocker
Hey gats you live in vegas, get over it ;-)
To answer By Harley's concerns...Most likely it was reported by other users on the Gnutella file sharing service. Once a complaint is filed, law enforcement has a duty to act. In this case it's not Big Brother snooping on computer users activities wily-nily.
gmag39, Harley -- excellent points.
JerryWayne -- Big Brother is alive and well, and now we see the Thought Police are everywhere, too. Welcome to our police state.
Again I have to ask who this accused man hurt. No injury = no crime, except under this police state.
"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others." -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1781-82
Feed him to the gophers
Another quality member of society out of Henderson..
He obviously has issues, but.. should this really be a crime?? Is it really worth wasting our tax dollars chasing someone who has not harmed anyone. Lets look at all the money this is eventually going to wind up costing taxpayers, incarceration, cops salaries, potential aid for a family unable to support themselves, on and on and on. I think if the Henderson PD wants to fight crime, tell them to start by raiding some Department stores, or casinos who are hiring illegal aliens, taking away our jobs and paying no taxes, instead of wasting money that we pay them on crap like this.
You have to despise the ugly side of Nevada libertarianism. No victim? How about the girls exploited for the production of this obsenity? Perhaps you child-molesting apologists would bother to read the US Supreme court decisions Ferber v. New York or Osborne v. Ohio? Folks defending this pervert are as bad as the pervert himself. And you should be careful perverts...if Las Vegas gets the reputation for being a harbor for child molesting perverts, nobody will show up except other degenerates...and you can sit around and molest each other all day long. Sickos.
big brother can look all he wants. If it was your daughter, sister, grandaughter that was sexually abused to get these dirtbags off i'm sure you wouldnt care how they got that info. Obviously they're not going to tell you every detail of their investigation for print then other pervs might know how to give them the slip. Big brother can watch all he wants if your not getting off to 12 year olds, funding terrorists or money laundering you've got nothing to worry about.
What I don't understand is how the bigots love hate people who are homosexual yet they always fail to mention these kinds of terrible things that heterosexuals do all the time. Look at how many Gentlemen's clubs there are in Clark county and you don't see those same bigots throwing their bibles around saying hateful things about them. Why the double standard.
Oh another thing. A lot of bigots love to trash gay people saying they are all child molesters yet if you check out the statistics data the vast majority of child molesters are white anglo-saxon protestant males. Around 90%. I am not making this stuff up either, it is a well documented FACT. They are the ones arrested for these crimes the majority of the time.
OG
That is great, then what you should do is donate your money to people that are working to solve this problem. I object to Nevada wasting my tax dollars when real criminals are all around us, illegal aliens, stealing our jobs, committing crimes, not paying taxes, robbing us blind by using our limited medical, yet Henderson chooses wasting precocious resources on this . maybe I wouldn't mind if they did their job and enforced all the other laws, but they don't. Thats great you dont mind spending 100's of thousands of dollars to arrest one pervert. My guess you probably dont pay taxes,or you probably hire people who cant speak English.
So the wifey doesnt know nada.....Yea ok,, if hes on the computer doing this,, how would the wife not know...
@KillerB
I suspect if one was to look deeper into this story they'd probably discover those sharing the "indicative" files with Kohler were the unnamed detectives and/or other agents/affiliates of government law enforcement.
"How to bait one into becoming a criminal 101"
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100 bucks says he's a liberal!
What a country we live in. The media parades a 15 year old Britney Spears around like a candy cane on a Christmas tree, but if a guy shows the slightest attraction to a girl under the age of 18 he's suddenly a felon.
Well look on the bright side, at least he isn't a firefighter or a firecaptain trollin on Craigslist.....
I cant believe his wife not knowing any of his nasty surfing habits, I mean.. what grade is she in anyway ?
I agree with this sick perv being held without bail, what I don't understand is why pervs that actually molest children often get bail and light sentences! Time to make the penalties the same and a long time in prison for both types of losers!
Sadly CPO isn't kidding. Typical conservative thinking dollars and no sense. Yes of course resources are scarce but when you come across law breakers and low lives like this that help perpetuate the abuse of children, you prosecute. Period. The question becomes- why is Nevada just about last in all resources/rankings for basic social services?
tuasdad makes a good point. It's not that kiddie porn addicts are looking at this sick stuff, it's the kids that are exploited that's the issue. If the people in porn you peruse appears to be 18+ then you're OK (for the most part).
You have to ask yourself; is porn, kiddie or not, interfering with or taking place of a healthy relationship? Is it likely to lead you to act on illegal fantasies?
Firedawg - that's a joke right? It seems sexual deviants of all types come from the wacko far right. They try to tell you how to live your life, when they could open a cemetery with all the skeletons in their closets.
Avitech - nobody brought up gay people until you did.
Talking about the police state, the FBI did a child porn sting a while back which consisted of an active link with some provocative child porn title. The come on was something like "Want to see some hot 12 year olds having sex?" If you clicked on the link the feds charged you with a felony and the convictions were upheld.
"No victim? How about the girls exploited for the production of this obsenity? Perhaps you child-molesting apologists would bother to read the US Supreme court decisions Ferber v. New York or Osborne v. Ohio? Folks defending this pervert are as bad as the pervert himself."
OG -- you and your ilk are wrong on so many fronts. First of all no disclosure was made on what the downloaded images were, yet look at the posts here screaming about children being raped and abused.
For perspective I recommend you read "Grandma Arrested for Child Porn" @ http://reason.com/blog/2009/05/04/grandm...
Or what about teens who "sexted" themselves being charged and arrested for child porn when they're their own victims? You can find that @ http://reason.com/archives/2009/06/04/an...
Since the cops were online, why wasn't Gnutella, his IP and all the owners of all the other computers that passed the images along also charged?
Harley -- good points. That reminds me of the early 1990s U.S. Supreme Court case where the REAL child porn purveyor was the Post Office in its multi-month effort by inspectors to bait a Nebraska farmer into buying some magazines.
Again, the REAL issue is who did this accused man hurt? Nobody.
Endorse thoughtcrime and even the private domain in our own heads is open to prosecution, then the state will have complete power over our lives.
I can't believe those of you who think that child pornography is not a crime. Think of how child porn gets created - it's an underage boy or girl who is being exploited and possibly abused. These pictures don't just pose kids in sexually provactive or lewd poses, take their photos, and then let them go home. They are groomed for months or years to trust their abuser and repeated abuse occurs or they are snatched off the street and abused or worse. CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IS EVIDENCE OF A CRIME AGAINST A CHILD!!! So, possessing it is too!! And, usually people who look at children is sexually provocative poses aren't right in the head. The viewing of chid pornography is part of the repetitive and ongoing cycle of abuse.
Would you want your 10 year old (or whatever age) child, family member, friend member photographed in a sexual nature!? No!!! So how is ok for this sleazeball to possess evidence of that crime. Or maybe those who think it's ok do the same thing and are worried they are going to get caught.
Please, those of you who have or care about children, look at a great site, www.missingkids.com. Actually, those of you who don't, should go look at all the children victims of predators in this nation. Get a reality check of what's going on and stop thinking about your "freedoms" and the "police big brother state." If you aren't doing anything wrong, what are you worried about???
A quote from www.missingkids.com, regarding child pornography...
"What Are the Effects of Child Pornography on the Child Victim?
It is important to realize that these images are crime scene photos -- they are a permanent record of the abuse of a child. The lives of the children featured in these illegal images and videos are forever altered.
Once these images are on the Internet, they are irretrievable and can continue to circulate forever. The child is revictimized as the images are viewed again and again."
So, before you think about possessing child pornography, and it being ok, think about what goes on to MAKE that picture or video. A child who is being abused, tortured and forever stained by what is happening to them to make that photo or video.
GET A LIFE SOME OF YOU!!!
This is not a victimless crime. The kids are victims and that's enough to go after these guys hard.
nvnatalienv -- if you could get out of herdthink mode long enough to actually use reasoning, you could see nothing you posted is at all relevant to those of us questioning what's really going on behind this prosecution. Look behind the headlines and be a citizen instead of being just another copy-and-paste parrot.
"This is not a victimless crime. The kids are victims and that's enough to go after these guys hard."
Bodytalk555 -- if there's a real victim then there's a real crime, and society absolutely has an obligation "to go after these guys hard." But explain how downloading images of some crime -- any crime -- being committed makes one culpable as a criminal? How is what this guy is accused of any different?
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Isaac H Tiffany (1819)
Where did he get the porn? how come we keep hearing about the guys who have down loaded that crap , but not the ones who are suppliers to the misfits. If there were no sites to download from then these pervys wouldn't have it on thier computers. I'm glad they caught him before his actions got worse, at least he didn't molest anyone. If the punishment is severe enough I bet he stays away from that crap.
KillerB : why does it matter who the detectives are or how the police found out about this guy!? The fact is that he had child pornography on his computer and got caught. Get over yourself, my post wasnt ONLY aimed at you!! And, how do you KNOW that he didn't commit any crimes against children. You forget, this is not the police report, this is a NEWS report. And, the media doesn't report everything. So,... there is always more than what the news reports, due to the accused rights, the victims rights, etc. And, finding child pornography is just the tip of the iceberg sometimes. I'm not saying this guy DID abuse anyone but you assume that he didn't, since he wasn't caught/it wasn't reported.
And, you call me a "copy and paste parrot" - funny as you like to quote yourself. hahaha ROFLMAO
"I'm glad they caught him before his actions got worse, at least he didn't molest anyone."
fedup2here -- you asked the right questions, and you raised the key point. Essentially this was a pre-crime strike. That We the People allow the police to go after those among us for what they MIGHT do condemns us all. Again, this endorses having Thought Police.
"why does it matter who the detectives are or how the police found out about this guy!? The fact is that he had child pornography on his computer and got caught."
nvnatalienv -- it's called the Fourth Amendment, it's about limits on what government is allowed to do, and most of all it protects our privacy against this kind of thing. It's what used to separate the U.S. from other police states.
And getting personal makes you irrelevant to this Discussion. Expect to be shunned.
"A stealthy entrance in such circumstances became the equivalent to an entry by force." -- Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 48 S.Ct. 564 (1928)
1. Did the color (black) of the computer really need to be mentioned?
2. Sure seems like most of these people live in Henderson and Good Ol' White Protestant Boulder City
3. There's a simple fix to this - the Federal Government needs to start levying heavy fines and/or prison time on any ISP that allows this stuff. Simple. If it's illeagal then why aren't Comcast, Cox, Verizon, et. al being held accountable? Domain hosts could easily ban or block this sort of content but internet is completely and totally unregulated and now you have people, who would never had had access to stuff before, getting to romp around in all kinds of questionable activities in the privacy of their own homes. Stop the problem at its source and you'll eliminate 70 percent of the crime.
Killer B:
" nvnatalienv -- it's called the Fourth Amendment, it's about limits on what government is allowed to do, and most of all it protects our privacy against this kind of thing. It's what used to separate the U.S. from other police states.
And getting personal makes you irrelevant to this Discussion. Expect to be shunned."
Oh.... so you're the blog police are you!? I'll be "shunned"!? You're so arrogant....
When I asked why it matters who the detectives are is that it holds no basis for what they found. I'm sure the detectives have to have a lot of evidence to take to a judge, who then has his/her own criteria for setting out a warrant. So, WHO the detectives are has no bearing. If it got reported by a person, by an internet site, etc, WHO CARES!! The guy is caught!!
NITRO, SPORTYYETPRACTICAL and the others who have common sense and dignity on this site, glad to see it ;-)
The ACLU which endorses Reid says that owning child porn is a Constitutional right.
once again it's killerb to the defense of all pedophiles, panhandlers, and purveyors of porn. so creepy. like we're supposed to take this clown seriously because he always poaches some pedantic quote that he considers relative. here's an idea: come up with an original thought, bro. oh, and have fun in the irrelevant bin, killer, because no one takes you seriously.
Just stick him in general population, and see him get stuck.......natural selection.
@gmag, thats because the dude killed a man of color. if it were the other way around, the dude would still locked up.
by cpo. dude, this country was built by illegals. nobody was saying anything then so why say anything now. your former president bush and chaney made millions off them and you voted them in. Anyway,. i agree with another poster..if it were your kid being abused you would not care if they wasted 1 million to get pervert would you?
@bkiller, this man may not have hurt anyone, but if he likes to look at young girls then he might act upon it one day. So if give a kid a joint to smoke did i really hurt anyone? Come on dudes get a clue.
NITRO - you're a hard one to figure out! :-)
" I suspect madame natalie is involved in law enforcement, and this is what you'll get with these people, using a pedophile, terrorist, whatever ..."
Though I accept the compliment, I do wish that I could work full time on putting these type of people away. I'll have to wait til I finish my degree but will take satisfaction of helping children and their families in the meantime.
This guy works in Harry Reids office.
My god
Im sure his parents and family are very proud of him.
I always wondered what KillerB looked like.
Are those intolerant of the child-porn market Roman Catholics that worship Michael Jackson?
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"I always wondered what KillerB looked like."
getalife -- you should. And you'll never know.
"I am a man who does not exist for others." -- from Howard Roark's Courtroom Speech, Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
I wonder if nitro and KillerB are the same people?
2 words for this scum - PIG ROAST!
So glad Jonathon was caught. He needs to be locked up for a long time. Good riddance to him!
There are apparently some unanswered questions here.
Has this guy been convicted yet? No, yet his picture and alleged crime is plastered all over the net. What happened to due process?
Fact: You can rape and kill a child and serve less prison time than you get for childporn possession. What is wrong with that?? Catholic priests get no prison time for molesting and raping children. But if they had CP pictures would they have done prison time? What is wrong there?
Sportyyetpratical ask why CP is allowed to be on the service provider's servers. I have had the exact same question. There is a paradox here, if you report that you have seen CP at a certain site you, by your own admission have admitted that you have viewed CP and are now a suspected distributer of CP. Once it's been viewed it's extremely difficult to delete it from your computer to the point where LEA can't recover it. But what providers are carrying CP? Any of the big services that provide access to the "usenet newsgroups". In their terms of service they state that "they are not and can not be held responsible for the content on their servers". So if you want to legally distribute CP just declare yourself as a service provider with that clause in your terms of service.
LEA and government enforcement agencies are not interested in stopping the flow and distribution of CP. Local LEA searches out the viewers of CP and publicizes these arrests because there is a tremendous amount of federal funding available for fighting CP. The more arrests they make, the more federal funding they get. But no one wants to say that local LEA is making money from CP, but it appears that they are. What is wrong here??
How did they catch him? By surfing Peer to Peer networks like limewire. Yes, an officer sitting at a computer day in and day out going through limewire user's computers looking for suspected CP. LEA is able to match the pictures signature with their library of known CP, without downloading and viewing it. The users that share anything on P to P networks have to be a few bricks shy of a load,if its available for download from your computer it can be traced to your address in about 5 minutes without search warrants.
You will find that 96% of those arrested plead guilty and get 5 to 10 years. They hardly ever go to trial. Why? Because if you decide to go to trial every frame of a CP movie can be counted as an additional charge. How many frames are in a 10 minute movie? The total charges could get the CP viewer 20 years to life But what is so very strange about going to trial is that the evidence against the person can not be viewed or displayed in court, because it is illegal to view or display CP. So how do you defend against evidence that no one can see to evaluate?