Attorney General Investigators Arrest Canyon County Man for Alleged Sexual Exploitation of a Child

(Boise) – Attorney General Lawrence Wasden has announced investigators with his Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit arrested a Nampa man Wednesday, December 6, for alleged Sexual Exploitation of a Child.

55-year-old Charles V. Gonzales was booked into the Canyon County Jail following his arrest. Investigators had obtained a search warrant for Gonzales’s Nampa residence and executed the warrant Wednesday morning.

The Nampa Police Department, Caldwell Police Department and the Canyon County Prosecutor’s Office assisted in the investigation.

Anyone with information regarding the exploitation of children is encouraged to contact local police, the Attorney General’s ICAC Unit at 208-334-4527, or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 1-800-843-5678.

The Attorney General’s ICAC Unit works with the Idaho ICAC Task Force, a coalition of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, to investigate and prosecute individuals who use the internet to criminally exploit children.

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