LAKE HAVASU CITY — A Lake Havasu City man has been charged with distribution of child pornography after a nationwide operation.
According to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, 34-year-old Dale L. Bauwens II is accused of distributing child pornography. A grand jury handed down the indictment on July 21.
Bauwens was charged with two counts of the crime, each carrying a mandatory minimum sentence of five years of incarceration upon conviction.
He was indicted amid Operation Kick Boxer, an effort between multiple departments looking “to identify and arrest distributors and manufactures of child sexual abuse materials and to recover child victims of sexual abuse,” the FBI said. The operation was mainly done in June.
The FBI said about 65 “suspected distributors, manufacturers and hands-on offenders” were identified and have been arrested or are being formally charged.
The sweep included undercover operations and led to the opening of over five dozen federal and international criminal investigations, according to a press release.
The case involving Bauwens was investigated by the FBI’s Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Phoenix Offices, as well as the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office. It will be prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Daniel R. Humble.
