Ridenour was charged Tuesday with Transportation of Child Pornography and possession of child pornography. The day the charges were filed in federal court, Ridenour was arrested by U.S. Marshals around 1:30 p.m. at his home on Greyhawk Drive in Fort Wayne’s Cherry Hill residential area. He was being held as a federal inmate at the Noble County Jail.

In April, the 39-year-old was charged with Felony 5 child solicitation for intercourse, Felony 6 dissemination of matter harmful to minors and misdemeanor inappropriate communication with a child (where) defendant used a computer network to commit the offense. Redd was on the verge of going to trial next week. Tomorrow Redd will plead guilty in front of Allen Superior Court Magistrate Sam Keirns and in that court, you allocate, you state what exactly you did wrong.

During an interview, Fosnight admitted to “requesting sexual acts done to a 7 to 9 year old.” He said he may have done this 100 times, court documents said. Under questioning, Fosnight initially admitted to looking at porn sites, his preferred site, “Sexy Asians” where he paid money for desperate people to perform sexual acts.

This week, Douglas Mieras, 64, was charged with Felony 4 child solicitation. (A Felony 4 carries a sentence of between two and 12 years.) The probable cause against Mieras details text messages from Mieras to his victims that are so disturbing, the exact messages will not be published by The Probable Cause.

Alec Hegge told investigators with the Hamilton County Metro ICAC Task Force that he “never hurt” a patient because there were too many safeguards in place. Hegge, 31, originally from Fort Wayne and a 2013 Snider High School graduate, was a registered behavior technician at Changing Lives Behavior Analysis Inc. in Anderson, according to a release posted July 24 on Facebook by the Fishers Police Department.

The Fort Wayne Police Department this week arrested two people accused of various counts of child exploitation.