A Moran man is being held without bond in the Allen County Jail after he was arrested earlier this month on a warrant alleging 31 counts of possessing child pornography.
Keith L. Levesque, 58, was arrested at his rural Moran home on March 3, according to a joint press release Friday from the Iola Police and the Allen County Sheriff’s Department.
The investigation opened in October 2022 after Iola police officers arrested Lavesque for suspicion of possessing methamphetamine, marijuana and drug paraphernalia.
Police Chief Jared Warner said the incident led to a subsequent search warrant of Lavesque’s rural Moran residence on Jan. 12. Included in the warrant was a search of his cell phone.
That, in turn, led to Lavesque’s arrest earlier this month. The most recent charges are listed as 31 counts of sexual exploitation of a child.
Allen County Sheriff Bryan Murphy noted Levesque has been registered as a sex offender since 2019. He had been charged in 2018 with 95 counts of sexual exploitation of a child, but was convicted of three counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a child as part of a plea agreement.
He was sentenced to probation and ordered to remain on the offender registry for 25 years.
