Crime & Safety
Three Lakewood Men Indicted for Child Pornography
More than 25 indictments across the county part of Fall Clean Sweep, a 10-month investigation into child pornography.
Three Lakewood men were indicted this week following a 10-month investigation into child pornography.
Christopher Willard, 33; Michael Liggett, 54; and Neal Rigo, 46, are all believed to have possessed and traded child pornography sometime between December 2010 through October 2011, according to Maria Russo, spokeswoman for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason.
They were indicted as part of Operation Fall Clean Sweep, a 10-month investigation into child pornography by the Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children task force.
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Four juveniles were also indicted in the Fall Clean Sweep.
Willard pleaded guilty in 1999 to a number of charges, including pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor; pandering obscenity involving a minor and possessing criminal tools.
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For the Fall Clean Sweep operation, detectives identified IP addresses being used to trade and download child pornography pictures and videos — using new technology.
From December 2010 through October 2011, 46 law enforcement officers from 16 executed 36 search warrants on homes in 17 communities throughout Cuyahoga County.
Officers seized 1,501 items such as computers, CDs, DVDs, cell phones, flash drives, floppy disks, digital cameras, video gaming systems, VHS tapes, and weapons. Eighty-nine additional cases have been referred to 59 law enforcement agencies outside of Cuyahoga County, including one in Illinois.
The following adult defendants were indicted on trading and possessing child pornography:
Previous convictions:
Christopher Willard, 33, of Lakewood (Previously convicted in January 2000)
Isreal David King, 25, of Cleveland (Previously convicted in December 2008)
William Kraatz, 23, of Strongsville (Previously convicted in April 2011)
Hollie Anderson, Jr., 55, of Cleveland (Previously convicted in October 2000 in Greene County and currently under indictment in Wood County)
Indicted:
Aarin Hill, 21, of Cleveland
Andriy Prokhna, 21, of Strongsville
Bennie Brown, 27, of Cleveland
Christopher Mannarino, 29, of Twinsburg
Christopher Richter, 24, of Cleveland
Daniel McLanahan, 31, of Middleburg Heights
Gregory Wies, 59, of Euclid
James Formoso, 47, of Parma
James Martin, 27, of Cleveland
Jeffrey Dodson, 51, of Garfield Heights
Jonathan Somogyi, 27, of Rocky River
Jose Molina, 22, of Cleveland
Joseph Smith, 20, of Cleveland
Kenneth Thorp, 31, of Strongsville
Kevin Hall, 34, of Shaker Heights
LaShawn Williams, 39, of East Cleveland
Michael Liggett, 54, of Lakewood
Neal Rigo, 46, of Lakewood
Ray Kaczmarski, 21, of Brook Park
Timothy Bell, 52, of Shaker Heights
Troy Cola, 41, of Parma
Wendy Campbell, 25, of Parma
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