CSI Student Association President Arrested on Alleged Child Porn Charges

TWIN FALLS (KIVI) – Dylan Ray was student body president and residence hall advisor at the College of Southern Idaho. Channel 6 interviewed him in April for a story about a candidate forum. At the time, he was under investigation for allegedly sharing digital media containing child sexual exploitation material. Ray was arrested on May 7 and arraigned on May 8 in Twin Falls.

(Below is the transcript of the broadcast story.)

Dylan Ray, 20, was student body president at the College of Southern Idaho and resident advisor at Eagle View Apartments.

He is now in custody in Twin Falls after a 15-felony investigation ended in connection with the alleged possession of sexually exploitative material involving minors.

We interviewed Ray just last month in advance of the candidate forum hosted by the school’s student government.

We didn’t know at the time that he was being actively investigated.

That started in January.

I have obtained court documents in the case which show that Ray allegedly uploaded a video to Snapchat of a juvenile engaging in sexual intercourse with an adult.

The social media company reported the video and found that it contained material about child sexual assault.

A tip was sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which forwarded the information to the Idaho Attorney General’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit.

The affidavit details how investigators obtained search warrants over several months to determine the identity of the account’s user by linking an Eagle Hall residence hall IP address to telephone and other Internet account information.

Ray is not charged with producing videos, but he is accused of allegedly exchanging messages and images with other users.

Even though Ray was charged with these crimes, that doesn’t necessarily mean he committed them. Everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty.