The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) today announced that Dain A. Peterson, age 30, was arrested on tentative charges of possession of child pornography.
The defendant, a Bayfield County deputy sheriff, was arrested by Wisconsin DOJ Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) special agents following an investigation into multiple uploads of child pornography through a messaging application. On the evening of August 9th, DCI agents executed a search warrant at the address where the defendant was residing in Ashland, he was arrested and booked into the Ashland County Jail at the conclusion of the warrant execution.
