Bronwyn Meeks is a 22 year old woman from Virginia who just plead host to a series of charges including murder. According to court documents Bronwyn Meeks, Dominic Samuels and Brennan Thomas would kidnap the victim Dylan D. Whetzel who was oddly brought to McDonald;s for what Bronwyn dubbed his last meal. Dylan was then brought to a remote area in Virginia where he was shot multiple times in the head. The trio would then use an ax to chop up the victims body before being placed in trash bags and scattered around the area. Apparently the reason behind the murders is that the victim had approached Bronwyn Meeks about selling drugs to a friend who had recently overdosed. Also at hand was that Bronwyn Meeks was worried about going back to jail for a dirty urine screen (drug test) and told a friend if she was going back to jail it might as well be for something big. Brownyn Meeks has yet to be sentenced and Dominic Samuels and Brennan Thomas are yet to go on trial.
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A young Spotsylvania County woman pleaded guilty to more than 30 charges Friday for her role in the slaying and dismemberment of a 20-year-old Stafford County man last year.
Bronwyn C. Meeks, 22, was convicted of offenses that include first-degree murder, murder by mob, abduction, concealing and defiling a dead body and multiple counts of conspiracy and firearms-related offenses.
The charges stem from the slaying of Dylan D. Whetzel of Stafford, who was shot at least five times on Jan. 31, 2021. His remains were chopped up and discarded in rural Spotsylvania in four large trash bags.
Special prosecutor David Sands gave a lengthy recitation of the evidence Friday in Spotsylvania Circuit Court, but it remains unclear why Whetzel was targeted.
A sentencing date for Meeks will be set at a later date. Her plea agreement calls for her to receive an active sentence of between 16 and 54 years in prison.
Bronwyn Meeks had been scheduled for an arraignment Friday, but instead decided to take the plea agreement.
Her codefendants, Dominic Samuels, 19, and Brennan Thomas, also 19, had their trial dates set Friday. Samuels is scheduled for a five-day jury trial that would start on Aug. 15, while a multi-day trial for Thomas is set to begin Nov. 29.
Thomas’ attorney, Jim Ilijevich, tried Friday to get Thomas released on bond. Judge Ricardo Rigual soundly rejected that request.
According to Sands, Meeks and Samuels were drug dealers who were romantically involved. Thomas was a friend of Samuels and attended the same high school.
Sands referred to what sounded like a relatively minor conflict between Meeks and Whetzel in which Whetzel told her to stop selling drugs to one of his friends. That friend had overdosed on drugs he obtained from Meeks, but survived, the prosecutor said.
Sands, who meticulously went through a series of cellphone trackings, text messages and pictures that he said connected the group to the crimes, said Meeks was also upset about a pending drug test that she expected to fail. In one text, she told someone that if she was going back to jail, she was going to “make it worth my while.”
The prosecutor said that Bronwyn Meeks made arrangements to pick up Whetzel in North Stafford under the guise of going to a party. She and her codefendants drove Whetzel to a McDonald’s for what Meeks described in a text as his “last meal,” Sands said.
The group ended up in the area of Pamunkey and Finney roads in western Spotsylvania, where Sands said Whetzel was pulled out of the vehicle and shot repeatedly. Authorities allege that Samuels and Thomas later purchased a Cobalt ax that was used to dismember the body.
Police were alerted to the crime by Thomas’ grandfather, who called 911 after seeing the red Mustang Thomas was driving in the area and his grandson coming out of the woods. The grandfather said Thomas told him that someone had been shot.
The older man was clearly distraught during the 911 call, at one point saying, “Oh, my God! What the [expletive] did he do?”
Sands also read text messages attributed to Samuels and Meeks following the slaying. One text from Samuels read, “I’m a [expletive] up psychopath and you just saw it first hand.”
Bronwyn Meeks in one text expressed displeasure with how the slaying was carried out, writing, “We’re [expletive] because everything was done so [expletive] wrong.”
All three suspects have been in custody for the past year.
Bridgett Forehand is a fourteen year old alleged teen killer who has been charged in a brutal murder. According to police documents Bridgett Forehand had just met the victim who she met through mutual friends however very quickly Bridgett would pull out a gun, put it to his forehead and pulled the trigger. The body of Mickell Gordon, 19, was found on the side of the road and soon after Bridgett Forehand was in custody. Now the alleged teen killer is facing murder charges inside of a Mississippi courtroom. According to her Grandfather Bridgett Forehand was struggling with her mental health and it is believed she stole the gun the day before. Bridgett Forehand is now scheduled to go on trial this week where she is facing a second degree murder charge
The teenager, who has since been identified as Bridgett Forehand, was initially charged with manslaughter but those charges were upgraded Thursday to second-degree murder.
During Forehand’s arraignment, the public defender told the judge that the 14-year-old’s grandfather was recently awarded custody of her and that the teenager has mental health issues. The lawyer told County Court Judge Mark Watts that they are trying to see a psychiatrist to get her on medication. Currently, she is not on any medication.
Judge Watts set bail at $100,000 and said he would consider lowering the bond if she sees a psychiatrist.
Few details have been released by authorities about what happened in the early morning hours of Wednesday, but a witness who was there has come forward to tell his side of the story.
The 19-year-old male, who does not wish to be identified publicly, sat down with WLOX on Wednesday afternoon to talk about what happened to his friend Mickell Gordon.
According to the witness, Mickell was staying the night at his house in Jackson County near the St. Andrews community. Text messages exchanged between the two earlier in the night show them talking about playing video games at the witness’ house. After doing that, they invited a 19-year-old female friend of Mikell’s over, said the witness.
She showed up with Bridgett Forehand, who the witness said told them she was 17. It wasn’t until after the shooting and her arrest that the witness said he found out she was actually 14.
“(Mickell and the 19-year-old female) were friends and we invited her over to hang out. I didn’t know either of the girls. (Mickell) just knew (the 19-year-old female)… He didn’t know (the suspect) either,” said the witness.
Video from the home of the witness shows the two girls arriving at the house in Jackson County near St. Andrews at 11:33 p.m.
Subsequent video taken from the home’s doorbell camera shows the four teenagers hanging out on his porch and in the front yard for a few minutes, before all four teens leave the home at 11:40 p.m.
According to the witness, they were just walking around the neighborhood because they couldn’t hang out inside his house since his family was sleeping so they stayed outside.. After walking to a nearby park and a store, the witness said they headed back to his house to get warmer clothing for the girls because they were cold.
It was around this time that things took a downward spiral.
“That’s when she pulled out the gun, and I was just trying to come up with an excuse to get them to leave. They knew somebody down the street so I told them we could walk to his house,” said the witness, adding that he wanted to get the weapon away from his family.
Then, while walking down the street, the suspect began behaving out of the norm and laid on the ground, he said.
“[The 19-year-old female] was trying to calm her down. That’s when (the suspect) got the gun from her backpack and started waving it around, pointing it at us… She said she stole it the day before but she didn’t tell us where she stole it from,” recounted the witness.
According to him, there was no confrontation prior to the shooting between Forehand and anyone else.
“No, none at all,” said the witness when asked if the suspect had a reason to be upset. “We were just trying to get them to go away nicely – or I was – and she was just going crazy. I don’t know why. She started waving (the gun) around. I turned around and started walking away, and I saw the gunshot out of the corner of my eye.”
“She didn’t even know him,” added the witness’ mother. “When she was arrested in the police car, she kept yelling, ‘Is Marcus okay?’ She didn’t even know his name.”
After the gun was fired, the witness said he realized that his friend had been shot in the forehead.
“We were kind of shocked and kind of sat there for a second, and then I pulled out my phone and she ran up to me and begged me not to call the cops. I said ‘okay, okay’ because she was still waving the gun around. Then I was like, ‘get away from me, get away from me’ and I took off running and went and checked on Kell and realized he was dead. That’s when I ran back towards my house and called (my mom) and went back to where Kell was, and we saw (the two girls) running down the street towards my house.”
As soon as she got the call from her son, the witness’ mom said she and her husband rushed a few doors down to the corner of Spruce and Center streets, where the shooting happened. Doorbell video shows the frantic parents running out of the house at 2:08 a.m.
The mother called 911 and she, her husband, and their son – the witness – waited for help to arrive. The first deputy arrived on scene at 2:11 a.m.
During that time, the mother said she realized that the two girls had ran off so she called her 15-year-old daughter, who was alone at the family’s home, and told her to hide in the bathroom and lock the door because the armed suspect was running towards their house.
The 15-year-old sister of the witness told WLOX she was locked in the bathroom when she heard Forehand and the 19-year-old female come in the house through the backdoor.
In the meantime, more law enforcement officers were responding to the shooting and can be heard on the police scanner calling backup to help search the area for the suspect.
At 2:28 a.m., a deputy can be heard telling dispatch that the suspect was in custody. According to the witness and his mother, the 14-year-old girl was arrested in their backyard.
Bridgett Forehand was initially charged with manslaughter but those charges were upgraded Thursday when she appeared in court. She is now charged with second degree murder. Her bond is set at $100,000.
The story of Gypsy Rose and the murder of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard is a disturbing case for so many different reasons. In this article on My Crime Library we are going to take a closer look at Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the murder of her mother Dee Dee Blanchard.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard Early Years
In July 1991 Gypsy Rose Blanchard was born to parents Dee Dee Blanchard and her seventeen year old husband Rod Blanchard. Needless to say the marriage did not last and Rod Blanchard would soon fall apart.
From the time Gypsy Rose was three months old her mother Dee Dee Blanchard was convinced that her daughter suffered from health problems and was in and out of the emergency room with complaints of sleep apnea, a chromosome disorder and muscular dystrophy – all of which were unfounded.
By the time Gypsy Rose was seven years old her mother was still convinced that her daughter suffered a myriad of health problems and when Gypsy Rose was involved in a minor motorcycle accident that left her with a scraped knee her mother Dee Dee Blanchard had the child placed in a wheelchair convinced she was no longer able to walk.
It is unclear what type of schooling that Gypsy Rose has as reports believed she stopped her education in the second grade and others reporting it much earlier. Dee Dee Blanchard would homeschool her daughter as she believed she was too ill to attend formal education
Gypsy Rose Blanchard would attend a series of Special Olympics and would be granted a series of trips to Disneyland by the Make A Wish Foundation. Gypsy Rose was given backstage passes to a number of Miranda Lambert concerts where she was photographed with the country singer.
Dee Dee Blanchard and her daughter were constantly moving and Dee Dee was arrested several times for passing bad checks. However a bigger issue for Dee Dee was that doctors in several States could find nothing physically wrong with Gypsy Rose.
Gypsy Rose And Nicholas Godejohn
In 2012 Gypsy Rose Blanchard would meet Nicholas Godejohn online and the two quickly would start a relationship. Gypsy Rose would tell a neighbor about the man that she met online and the neighbor believing that Gypsy Rose was much younger than she actually was would tell her mother Dee Dee Blanchard fearing the young girl was being groomed by a sexual predator. Dee Dee Blanchard would respond by destroying Gypsy Rose phone and computer.
However Gypsy Rose would keep in contact with Nicholas Godejohn and soon the two would meet. The new lovebirds would make a plan to be together forever and the best way to do so was to murder Dee Dee Blanchard.
Gypsy Rose And The Murder Of Dee Dee Blanchard
Nicholas Godejohn would arrive in Missouri while Gypsy Rose and Dee Dee were at yet another doctor’s appointment. When Dee Dee Blanchard would fall asleep Gypsy Rose would allow him into the home arming him with a knife, gloves and duct tape.
While Gypsy Rose hid down in the basement as she did not want to hear her mother get murdered. Nicholas Godejohn would fatally stab Dee Dee Blanchard 17 times causing her death.
Allegedly Gypsy Rose and Nicholas Godejohn would have sex before stealing $4000 from Dee Dee Blanchard and headed to a motel.
Gypsy Rose Murder Investigation
Several days would pass before neighbors and friends started to become suspicious. Police would eventually come to investigate and after getting a search warrant would find the body of Dee Dee Blanchard.
The police were a bit confused at the beginning for all of Gypsy Rose wheelchairs were still present. A search began for Gypsy Rose and authorities believed they were searching for a severely handicapped child however when they finally found Gypsy Rose they found a young woman with no disabilities. Gypsy Rose and Nicholas Godejohn would be extradited back to Missouri to stand trial for the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard
Gypsy Rose Story Aftermath
Gypsy Rose would ultimately take a plea deal where she would be sentenced to ten years in prison. Nicholas Godejohn would stand trial and ultimately be sentenced to life in prison
Gypsy Rose Blanchard 2022 Information
DOC ID
1302048
Offender Name
Gypsy R Blancharde
Race
White
Sex
Female
Date of Birth
07/27/1991
Height/Weight
4’11” / 100
Hair/Eyes
Black / Brown
Assigned Location
Chillicothe Correctional Center
Address
3151 Litton Road, Chillicothe, MO 64601
Nicholas Godejohn 2022 Information
DOC ID
1336380
Offender Name
Nicholas P Godejohn
Race
White
Sex
Male
Date of Birth
05/20/1989
Height/Weight
6’0″ / 193
Hair/Eyes
Brown / Hazel
Assigned Location
Potosi Correctional Center
Address
11593 State Highway O, Mineral Point, MO 63660
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In October 2005, after Hurricane Katrina destroyed multiple areas of New Orleans, Claudine “Dee Dee” Blanchard and her daughter Gypsy Rose Blanchard moved to a home in Aurora, Missouri. Dee Dee claims Gypsy’s medical records were destroyed in the flooding.
According to Blanchard, Gypsy was diagnosed with leukemia and muscular dystrophy. She was wheelchair-bound, used a feeding tube, and had an oxygen tank. This would later be discovered as untrue.
In March of 2008, Habitat for Humanity built a small house in Springfield for the Blanchards. The home was specifically designed with accessibility features like lower light switches, a large bathtub, wide doorways, and a wheelchair ramp.
During this time, news outlets, the public, friends, and neighbors were fooled by their con. An outpouring of support came from charity organizations, donations, and even celebrities. They received free flights, lodging, and trips.
The Blanchards went on charity trips to Disney World and through the Make-a-Wish Foundation met Miranda Lambert. According to Tara Sullins, a friend of Blanchard, they received a large sum of money from Lambert and Blake Shelton for medical treatment in Paris.
Dee Dee’s legal name was Clauddine Blanchard. She uses various aliases and misspellings over the years such as DeDe, Claudine, and Deno. According to Michelle Dean’s BuzzFeed article, Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom Murdered, by the time she reached Missouri, she went be Clauddinnea and always added an “e” to her last name.
Gypsy’s father, Rod Blanchard, met Dee Dee while in high school. He was 17 years old and she was 24 when she got pregnant. They would soon get married, but he left the marriage before Gypsy was born. He remained involved with his daughter early on. He would later remarry and continue to make monthly child support payments, sent gifts, spoke to her on the phone. But according to Michelle Dean from BuzzFeed News, Dee Dee told neighbors Rod was an abusive drug addict and alcoholic who had never come to terms with Gypsy’s health issues and never sent them any money.
Dee Dee was convinced Gypsy suffered from a wide range of health issues. They spent a lot of time with various specialists throughout Louisiana. With her insistence, she managed to get treatment for her daughter’s ailments, including prescriptions for anti-seizure medication and surgeries.
Dr. Bernardo Flasterstein, Gypsy’s neurologist, became suspicious of her muscular dystrophy diagnosis. He ordered MRIs and blood tests, which found no abnormalities. After contacting Gypsy’s doctors in New Orleans, he learned that Gypsy’s original muscle biopsy had come back negative, which undermined Dee dee’s self-reported diagnosis as well as the claim that all of Gypsy’s records had been destroyed by flooding.
He suspected the possibility of Munchausen syndrome by proxy. A condition in which a caregiver creates the appearance of health problems in another person, typically their child.
Flasterstein did not report Blanchard to social services. He said he had been told by other doctors to treat the pair with ‘golden gloves’ and doubted the authorities would believe him anyway.
According to Michelle Dean’s BuzzFeed article, in 2012, Gypsy Blanchard met Nicholas Godejohn online. He was from Big Bend, Wisconsin, and had been diagnosed with autism.
The pair met online on a Christian singles dating site. They hit it off immediately. Blanchard and Godejohn spoke of eloping, naming future children they would have together, and sexual exchanges.
In HBO’s documentary, Mommy Dead and Dearest, Blanchard revealed Godejohn was into BDSM, sexual activity involving such practices as the use of physical restraints, the granting and relinquishing of control, and the infliction of pain. Blanchard was taught how to roleplay characters each with names and personas. Using secret social media accounts, she would dress up in costumes and share photos of herself with Godejohn.
In 2013, Godejohn pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct for allegedly viewing pornography on his laptop at a McDonald’s and touching himself inappropriately.
Their relationship would be a secret for two and half years before confiding to Blanchard’s friend, Aleah Woodmansee in 2014. Woodmansee found their relationship alarming due to the sexual nature and that she believed Blanchard was still a minor. She tried to talk her out of continuing contact with Godejohn, but Blanchard appeared to be completely smitten.
Blanchard confessed she wanted to be more like girls her age and date but knew Dee Dee would have to approve first.
At Godejohn’s trial, Blanchard revealed she arranged and paid for him to meet her mother in Springfield. She hoped that Dee Dee might allow them to date if she thought they met for the first time in person. They decided to meet at a movie theater to see Cinderella. Blanchard said her mother hated him. Regardless, she was able to sneak away and lose her virginity to Godejohn in a bathroom stall.
In an interview with 20/20, Blanchard said her mother got jealous that she was giving Godejohn too much attention and ordered her to stay away from him. They fought for weeks over the event. Gypsy said her mother called her names like slut and whore.
After the failed attempt, Blanchard and Godejohn began planning Dee Dee’s murder. “It was not because I hated her. It was because I wanted to escape her,” she said.
On June 2015, the day of the murder, per ABC News, Godejohn traveled to Missouri, checked into a motel, and waited for a confirmation text from Blanchard. Once Dee Dee fell asleep, he went to their home where Blanchard gave him a knife. She hid in the bathroom with her hands over her ears while Godejohn stabbed Dee Dee to death.
In an interview with 20/20, she said, “I honestly thought he would end up not doing it. I heard her scream once, and there was more screaming but not like the kind in a horror film. Just like a startled scream, and she asked, ‘Who was it that was in the bedroom?’ And she called out to my name about three or four times, and at that point, I wanted to go help her so bad, but I was so afraid to get up. It’s like my body wouldn’t move. Then everything just went quiet.”
Blanchard and Godejohn admitted they had sex immediately after the murder, according to ABC News.
On June 14th, 2015, a pair of disturbing posts appeared on Dee Dee’s Facebook page. Many wondered if the account had been hacked, but the second message made it clear something was wrong.
Blanchard and Godejohn stayed overnight in his motel in Springfield. They left on a bus to Big Bend, Wisconsin, on June 14th.
It was that afternoon when she made Godejohn create the Facebook posts. “I couldn’t stand the thought of her just there because what happens if it would have taken months to find her, so I wanted her found so she could have a proper burial,” Blanchard told 20/20.
In Springfield, when police found Dee Dee’s body, Woodmansee told police about Blanchard’s secret online relationship with Godejohn. With help from Facebook, authorities were able to find his IP address and track him and Blanchard down in Wisconsin.
Police from Waukesha County, Wisconsin, were dispatched to Godejohn’s family home. He and Blanchard were taken into custody on charges of murder and felony armed criminal action. The pair were extradited back to Missouri and were held on a one million dollar bond.
While the charge of first-degree murder can carry the death penalty under Missouri law or life without parole, county prosecutor Dan Patterson announced he would not seek the death penalty for either Blanchard or Godejohn, calling the case, “extraordinary and unusual”.
Investigations into the crime revealed a series of texts between them that appeared to discuss and plan Dee Dee’s death. It read, “Honey, you forget I am ruthless, and my hatred of her will force her to die,” Godejohn texted Blanchard. “It’s my evil side doing it. He won’t mess up, because he enjoys killing.”
According to BuzzFeed, prosecutors also said they found social media evidence of Blanchard directly asking Godejohn to kill her mother, though these have never been made public. Documents from pretrial discovery show him telling a friend about Blanchard’s desire to murder her mother as early as May 2014.
On June 29th, Gypsy Blanchard pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action.
Mike Stanfield, Blanchard’s attorney, said he was able to uncover decades worth of abuse that Dee Dee inflicted on Blanchard as a part of an elaborate fraud scheme. For months, he traveled to Lousiana to try to recover her medical records.
After the disclosure of how Dee Dee had treated Blanchard all those years, sympathy for her as the victim of a violent murder quickly shifted to her daughter as a long-term victim of child abuse.
Blanchard revealed everything about the financial fraud scheme. She admitted she had been lying for years and that her mom made her do it. But even she didn’t know everything that happened. When Blanchard first spoke with the police she told them she was 19. Gypsy’s father, Rod Blanchard, had to clarify she was actually 23.
According to the HBO documentary, Dee Dee told her she suffered from asthma, epilepsy, hearing and vision impairments, had to be fed with by a feeding tube, was paralyzed from the waist down, and suffered from intellectual disabilities. During medical visits gypsy was told to not move her legs and to just play with the dolls she would bring with her as Dee Dee did all of the talking.
Gypsy kept the facade for years, but as she became older, she expressed feelings of wanting freedom and love.
Attorney Mike Stanfield told BuzzFeed that Gypsy was so undernourished that during the year she was in the county jail, she gained 14 pounds, in contrast to most of his clients who lose weight in that situation.
In July 2015, she accepted a plea bargain agreement of second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Speaking with various media outlets, Blanchard says she was able to research Munchausen syndrome by proxy and said her mother had every symptom.
She also says she feels freer in prison than she was before with her mother.
Blanchard is now serving her sentence in Missouri’s Chillicothe Correctional Center.
China Arnold is a woman from Ohio who was convicted of the murder of her 28 day old baby Paris but it is the way the infant was killed which makes people remember this case. According to court documents China Arnold was living with her boyfriend when an argument broke out over who actually was the father of Paris. China Arnold would react by placing the twenty eight day old baby into a microwave and turning it on for at least two to three minutes. Paris would have no external injuries however her inner organs were damaged by the high heat causing her death. China Arnold would claim that she was not the one who put Paris into a microwave however after three trials she would be convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison
An attorney for China Arnold, an Ohio mother serving a life sentence for murdering her 28-day-old-daughter by placing her in the microwave and “cooking” her in August 2005, argued Tuesday for a new trial, which would be her fourth in the case, reports CBS affiliate WHIO.
Defense attorney Christopher Thompson argued in Ohio’s Second District Court of Appeals that there were five errors made in Arnold’s latest trial and that she should get another trial without death penalty specifications.
Arnold, 33, was already tried three times, with the death penalty a possibility each time, in the murder of her daughter, Paris Talley. Her first trial in February 2008 ended in a mistrial and her second trial ended in September 2008 when she was found guilty but the jury could not decide on the death penalty. Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman imposed a sentence of life in prison, but that decision ultimately was overturned on appeal in November 2010.
Arnold’s third trial ended in May 2011 when she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury did not vote for the death penalty.
Noel Bonilla-Jimenez is a teenager from Arkansas who filmed himself raping a seven year old child and sharing the images over Instagram. According to police Noel Bonilla-Jimenez was arrested on January 27, 2022 and charged with two counts of sexual assault involving a victim under the age of 14, one count of using a computer to exploit a child and two counts of possessing, distributing and viewing child pornography. Apparently Noel Bonilla-Jimenez told the arresting officers that he was not attracted to children however he was curious. It seems when Noel Bonilla-Jimenez shared the files on Instagram it alerted officials to the barbaric crime. Noel Bonilla-Jimenez remains behind bars in Arkansas praying that other inmates do not find out what crimes he has been charged with
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A Rogers man is accused of raping a boy and using social media to send videos of the act.
Noel Bonilla-Jimenez, 18, is charged with rape.
He was arrested Saturday in connection with two counts of rape, but prosecutors filed only one count Monday against him.
Bonilla-Jimenez was also arrested in connection with two counts of possessing, distributing and viewing of matter depicting sexually explicit conduct involving a child and computer exploitation of a child. Prosecutors have not filed formal charges in that arrest.
Rogers police investigated a report involving a video showing a young girl engaged in a sex act with a person believed to be a man, according to a probable cause affidavit. The person used Instagram and Snapchat to send the video to another person, the affidavit states.
Police were able to trace the video to Bonilla-Jimenez’s cellphone, according to the affidavit.
Police also received an anonymous report in November identifying Bonilla-Jimenez as a Snapchat user who sent videos of himself engaged in sex acts with 5- or 6-year-old children, according to the affidavit.
A woman told police Bonilla-Jimenez befriended her and they exchanged Snapchat contact information, according to the affidavit. She told police she observed his account and found several videos of him having sex with adult females and videos of a boy engaged in a sex act with a man, according to the affidavit. The woman said she saved the video to give to law enforcement, according to the affidavit.
Police believe the boy is between 7 and 9 years old and identified Bonilla-Jimenez as the man in the video, according to the affidavit.
Police were able to identify the 8-year-old boy, referred to as John Doe-8 in court documents. Police showed the boy’s mother a screen clipping of her son, and she reported her son was 7 years old at the time, according to the affidavit.
Noel Bonilla-Jimenez admitted to recording the incidents with the boy but claimed he deleted the videos, according to the affidavit. He admitted to engaging in sex acts with the boy two or three times at his home, according to the affidavit.
Police also found evidence Bonilla-Jimenez sent the video to a man with a text message that read “7-year-old boy,” according to the affidavit.
Police believe Bonilla-Jimenez was 17 years old when the boy was raped, according to the affidavit.
His arraignment is scheduled for March 7 in Benton County Circuit Judge Robin Green’s courtroom
On January 25, the Rogers Police Department filed a request for an arrest warrant including child pornography charges for Noel Bonilla-Jimenez, 18.
A Rogers PD detective filed the eight page motion with details dating back over 18 months. The motion states that, on June 22, 2021, he received multiple Cyber Tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
The first Cyber Tip was submitted by Instagram on or about May 17, 2021. According to Instagram, a user uploaded a video file to an identified user with a hash value that had been previously viewed in other cases and categorized as Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). The video involved a prepubescent female and an adult male.
Instagram identified the recepient of the video and also provided further information on the owner of the account, including a phone number, user ID and screen name.
Another report was submitted by Instagram the following day, when a user uploaded the same video file. Instagram again provided relevant information about both parties, including phone numbers and screen names of the uploader and recepient.
The next Cyber Tip was submitted by Snapchat, on or about May 15, 2021. According to Snapchat, a user uploaded a video with a hash value that corresponded with a video previously viewed in other cases and categorized as CSAM involving a prepubescent girl and an adult male.
Snapchat provided the user’s phone number, date of birth, email address and IP address.
In the court filing, the detective reported that he conducted a search of the phone number “and found that it possibly belonged to Noel Bonilla-Jimenez.” Police records showed that Bonilla-Jimenez had an address in Rogers and lived there.
On or about September 3, 2021, Instagram filed a report with NCMEC concerning a user that sent a video classified as a prepubescent minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. They reported the sender and recepient, as well as the hash value of the video.
The phone number and date of birth associated with the sender’s account matched Bonilla-Jimenez.
On or about December 10, 2021, the Rogers detective received a Cyber Tip with a report titled Priority Level 2, which “indicates possible risk to an individual in the near future or is otherwise time-sensitive.”
That report was called in on November 24, 2021, by someone who wished to remain anonymous. That person reported that a Snapchat user had sent multiple videos of a prepubescent girl engaging in illicit activity with another user. That suspected user was identified as Bonilla-Jimenez.
The detective stated that he called the reporting party on December 20, 2021, and was told that she had met Noel Bonilla-Jimenez a few months ago, and that they exchanged Snapchat contact information. She said she observed his account and found “several videos of him having sex with believed to be adult females and videos of a prepubescent male” engaging in a sex act with an adult male.
She stated that she saved the videos to share with law enforcement, and the detective later received them. The caller reported that Noel Bonilla-Jimenez posted a comment with a child’s age on one of the videos. The detective identified him as the adult male depicted in the videos.
Later that day, the detective went to Noel Bonilla-Jimenez’s address and met a woman that confirmed he lived there. He showed her a clip from one of the reported videos and she was able to identify a child involved. She also identified Bonilla-Jimenez from a screen shot taken from one of the videos. The detective showed her another photo, with a background that matched the videos, and she confirmed that it was taken inside a bathroom at the residence.
Investigators left the area after learning that the suspect was not home. They later made contact with him and conducted an interview in which he admitted to being the owner of the accounts listed in all of the Cyber Tips, with the exception of one. He initially denied knowing the child shown in a screen shot.
He then replied “I’m going to be honest with you now since you basically know everything,” and admitted that he knew the child and that “they have already discussed and dealt with the incident.” He then said he was not comfortable discussing the incident and claimed that he had not seen the child in four or five years.
He stated that the incidents occurred two or three times, and that all of them happened at his residence. When informed that one of the videos appeared to take place inside a vehicle, Noel Bonilla-Jimenez replied that they were in his vehicle, parked in the driveway of the residence.
The child was later interviewed at the Children’s Advocacy Center and he did not disclose any sexual abuse. When the interviewer asked him about seeing a video with him in it, the child began to cry and said that he wanted to leave the room.
They also interviewed the child’s mother, who identified her son in a screen capture and said that the picture appeared to have been taken approximately one year ago, when he would have been seven years old.
On December 21, 2021, the detective received a search warrant for Noel Bonilla-Jimenez’s residence and executed it at approximately 4:20 p.m., with “several Detectives of the Rogers Police Department.” The suspect was home and was made to wait outside while the search was conducted.
Detectives located two iPhones, an iPad, a desktop computer, an 8GB flash drive and a 16GB flash drive. They received a warrant to search the seized devices on December 27, 2021.
The detective reported that he “conducted forensic extraction of both cell phones,” as well as the computer’s hard drive. During his investigation, he located one of the Snapchat videos, and also found that there were four copies of it in the “downloads” folder.
He also found a copy of the video on a seized iPhone 7, and noted that it was associated with a WhatsApp text conversation in which Noel Bonilla-Jimenez sent the video with a message reading “7 year old boy.”
Based on the above, on January 25 the detective filed an affidavit of probable cause to obtain an arrest warrant on the following charges:
Distributing, Possessing or Viewing of Matter Depicting Sexually Explicit Conduct Involving a Child, Class C Felony, two counts
Computer Exploitation of a Child, Class Y Felony
The court issued and filed an arrest warrant the next day.
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