A Loveland man was arrested in February for an alleged connection to a child sexual exploitation case and now faces several felony charges.
On Feb. 5, Loveland Police Department detectives were contacted by investigators from the Montgomery County Texas District Attorney’s Office’s Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce regarding online child exploitation, according to a Wednesday release.
The LPD immediately initiated a joint investigation into the exploitation case based on information from Texas investigators who had been in contact with a Loveland man online who had reportedly been communicating with an undercover ICAC Unit officer.
The department is a member of the Department of Justice’s ICAC nationwide task force with three detectives currently assigned to the unit on a part-time basis.
Texas authorities informed LPD detectives that, based on the content of the communications, they were seeking to charge the man, identified by police as 41-year-old Jacob Neil Davis, with several counts of intent to promote child pornography.
Within a few hours, detectives and members of the SWAT team executed a search warrant on a home in Loveland; the LPD did not provide a block number in its Wednesday release. During the search, investigators found and seized more than 4,000 images of child sexual abuse material as well as information that the suspect had contact with local minor victims in Colorado, according to the release.
Detectives issued another search warrant for a home in Fort Collins after learning Davis occasionally stayed there. During the search, investigators located additional evidence and arrested Davis, who was transported and booked into the Larimer County Jail on outstanding warrants from Texas as well as charges relating to the exploitation case.
He has since been charged in the 8th Judicial District with two counts of sexual assault on a child from a position of trust, a class 3 felony; five counts of sexual exploitation of a child, three class 3 felonies, one class 4 felony and one class 5 felony; and two additional class 3 felony sexual assault charges.
Davis is scheduled to appear before 8th Judicial District Court Judge Daniel McDonald at 9:30 a.m. May 28. He remains in custody at the jail in Fort Collins on a $200,000 cash bond.
Anyone with more information on the case has been asked to call the Loveland Police Department tip line at 970-962-2032 or Larimer County Crime Stoppers at 970-221-6868.