AO 91 (Rev. 02/09) Criminal Complaint 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

for the 

District of Oregon FILED 23 APR '1513:44 USDG·ORE 

United States of America 

v. 

ERNEST LUTHER TAYLOR 

Defendant 

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Case No. I: lS- mj- (oq - C.L 

CRIMINAL COMPLAINT 

I, the complainant in this case, state that the following is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. 

On or about the date of 12/17/12·2/17/14 in the county of 

Oregon , the defendant violated 18 

, an offense described as follows: 

18 USC§ 2251(a) 

18 usc§ 2251(b) 

18 USC§ 2252(a)(1) 

18 USC § 2252(a)(2) 

18 USC § 2252A(a)(1) 

18 USC § 2252A(a)(2) 

18 USC § 2252A(a)(5)(B) 

This criminal complaint is based on these facts: 

see attached affidavit 

~ Continued on the attached sheet. 

Sworn to before me and signed in my presence. 

Date: 

City and state: Eugene, Oregon 

Jackson inthe District of ------

U. S.C. § 2251 & 2252 

Miles P. Wiltrout, SA FBI 

Printed name and title 

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STATE OF OREGON ) 

) AFFIDAVIT OF MILES P. WILTROUT 

County of Jackson ) 

Affidavit in Support of Criminal Complaint 

I, Miles P. Wiltrout, being duly sworn, do hereby depose and state as follows: 

Introduction and Agent Background 

1. I am a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau oflnvestigation, and have been so 

employed since May 1998. I am currently assigned to the Medford Resident Agency and the 

Southern Oregon High-Tech Crimes Task Force investigating computer related crimes. My 

training and experience includes various courses in investigating computer related crimes, online 

undercover training, as well as training in computer network structure and troubleshooting, basic 

and intermediate digital recovery and acquisition, and forensic examination of computers, cell 

phones, and other digital media. In addition, I have been the administrative case agent on two 

Title III wire interception investigations of drug enterprise operations. 

2. This affidavit is submitted in support of an application for an arrest warrant for 

Ernest Luther Taylor DOB XX/XX/1977, currently lodged in the Jackson County Jail, for 

violations of Title 18 United States Code, Sections 2251(a), 2251(b), 2252(a)(l), 2252(a)(2), 

2252A(a)(l ), 2252A(a)(2), and 2252A(a)(5)(B). As set forth below, I have probable cause to 

believe that Ernest Luther Taylor has violated one or more of the statutes described herein. 

3. The facts set forth in this affidavit are based on the following: my own personal 

knowledge; knowledge obtained from other individuals during my participation in this 

investigation, including other law enforcement officers; my review of records related to this 

investigation; communications with others who have knowledge of the events and circumstances 

described herein; and information gained through my training and experience. Because this 

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affidavit is submitted for the limited purpose of establishing probable cause in support of the 

arrest warrant, it does not set forth each and every fact that I or others have learned during the 

course of this investigation. 

Applicable Law 

4. Title 18 Section 2251 (a) prohibits employing, using, persuading, inducing, 

enticing, or coercing any minor to engage in, or having a minor assist any other person to engage 

in, or transporting any minor in or affecting interstate of foreign commerce, or in any Territory or 

Possession of the United States, with the intent that such minor engage in, any sexually explicit 

conduct for the purpose of producing any visual depiction of such conduct. 

5. Title 18 Section 2251 (b) prohibits any parent, legal guardian, or person having 

custody or control of a minor from knowingly permitting such minor to engage in, or to assist 

any other person to engage in, sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing any visual 

depiction of such conduct. 

6. Title 18 Section 2252(a)(l) prohibits knowingly transporting or shipping in 

interstate or foreign commerce, by computer or mail, any visual depiction of minors engaging in 

sexually explicit conduct. 

7. Title 18 Section 2252(a)(2) prohibits knowingly receiving or distributing, by 

computer or mail, any visual depiction of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct that has 

been mailed, shipped, or transported in interstate or foreign commerce. That section also 

prohibits knowingly reproducing any visual depiction ,of minors engaging in sexually explicit 

conduct for distribution in interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by computer 

or the mail. 

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8. Title 18 Section 2252A(a)(l) prohibits knowingly mailing, transporting, or 

shipping child pornography in interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by 

computer. 

9. Title 18 Section 2252A(a)(2) prohibits knowingly receiving or distributing any 

child pornography that has been mailed or shipped or transported in interstate or foreign 

commerce by any means, including by computer. 

10. Title 18 Section 2252A(a)(5)(B) prohibits knowingly possessing, or knowingly 

accessing with intent to view, any book, magazine, periodical, film, videotape, computer disk, or 

any other material that contains an image of child pornography that has been mailed, or shipped 

or transported using any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce or in or affecting 

interstate or foreign commerce by any means, including by computer, or that was produced using 

materials that have been mailed, or shipped or transported in or affecting interstate or foreign 

commerce by any means, including by computer; shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). 

Statement of Probable Cause 

11. On 02/18/2014 detectives of the Medford Area Drug and Gang Enforcement 

(MADGE) unit served a search warrant, signed by a Jackson County Circuit Court Judge on 

0211112014, upon 519 West 11th Street, Medford, Oregon, the residence of Ernest Luther Taylor, 

for evidence of the crimes of Possession of Psilocybin Mushrooms and Marijuana, 

Manufacturing of Psilocybin Mushrooms and Marijuana, and Delivery of Psilocybin Mushrooms 

and Marijuana, violations of Oregon Revised Statutes. 

12. The warrant authorized the search for and seizure of items drug related items 

including drug records and cell phones. Based on my training and experience, I know that 

individuals who possess, manufacture and deliver narcotics may keep records, such as client 

contact information, pictures, text messages, multi-media messages, emails and email addresses, 

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and other documents related to their illegal drug sales in digital form on cell phones, memory 

cards and other forms of digital storage media. 

13. Pursuant to the service of this warrant, detectives seized numerous items from 519 

West 11th Street, Medford, Oregon, including a laptop and a cell phone. On 03/17/2014, 

Medford Police Detective Brandon Bloomfield, assigned to the Southern Oregon High-Tech 

Crimes Task Force obtained two items of digital evidence from the City of Medford Property 

Control Facility and transported the items to the Southern Oregon High Tech Crimes Task Force 

for forensic analysis. The items were identified as a Sony Vaio laptop computer model VGNBX540B bearing serial #3000048 and a Samsung SGH-T839 Sidekick Cellular Phone with serial 

#R26B581605R. 

14. Medford Police Officer Jennifer Newell, assigned to MADGE, provided a copy of 

the search warrant authorizing the analysis of the evidence pertaining to her narcotics 

investigation, and an Examination Request Form requesting the items be examined for evidence 

supporting the charges of manufacturing, distribution, possession of Psilocybin Mushrooms and 

to identify other suspects. Based on my training and experience, evidence supporting the charges 

of manufacturing, distribution, and possession of Psilocybin Mushrooms and the identification of 

other suspects can be found on cell phones and computers in forms including pictures, text 

messages, multi-media messages, emails and email addresses and other documents, on cell 

phones and computers. 

15. On 08/13/2014, Detective Bloomfield began an examination of the Samsung 

SGH-T839 cellular phone with serial #R26B581605R. According to the information printed 

inside this cellular phone, this device was made in Korea. Detective Bloomfield found it 

contained an eight gigabyte micro SDHC media card. The media card is used with the phone to 

store various information including images and videos. Detective Bloomfield created an image 

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ofthe eight gigabyte media card and processed the image with AccessData Forensic Tool Kit, a 

software program used to recover live and deleted data from digital media. Processing the 

device in this manner allows an examiner to preserve original data including dates and times of 

files. After processing an evidence item, and depending on which function is used, AccessData 

Forensic Tool Kit can display digital images in a gallery view of thumbnail images, or a user can 

view images one at a time. 

16. After the image of the media card finished processing Detective Bloomfield 

began reviewing files that had been recovered from the device. Detective Bloomfield observed 

several images depicting child sexual exploitation (child pornography). The images all involved 

what appeared to be the same young female child that appeared to be about five or six years of 

age. 

17. Detective Bloomfield located at least 18 images that depict a prepubescent girl in 

various stages of undress. The images mainly depicted the girl from the waist to the neck. In the 

images the breasts of the girl are exposed and some of the images depict what appears to be an 

adult male wearing distinct large brass colored rings on the left hand, pulling the bra or top away 

from the girl causing her breasts to be exposed. Another image depicts what appears to be the 

same adult male touching the right breast of the girl over the clothing. In the images the girl is 

wearing various clothing to include a pink and white horizontal striped bikini type top with blue 

and pink ribbing, purple or fuchsia colored shirt and a white bra with multicolored frog print. 

Detective Bloomfield was able to locate EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) data for some 

of the images. EXIF data is information embedded in a digital file. Within an image, EXIF data 

will often identify date and times associated with an image and the device used to create the 

image. Detective Bloomfield was able to determine that at least some ofthe images were taken 

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with a device identified as a Samsung SGH-T839 cellular phone. EXIF data also showed the 

images mentioned were created between 09112/2013 to 02/17/2014. 

18. On 04/20/2015 I viewed five ofthese images and they are described below: 

JPEG_8[6750].jpg- A digital image that depicts a naked prepubescent girl sitting on a 

chair on her knees with her buttocks exposed (the chair shown in the image was later seized 

during the execution of a search warrant at Ernest Luther Taylor's residence). 

JPEG_8[6764].jpg- A digital image that depicts what appears to be the same 

prepubescent girl wearing what appears to be a pink and white top or training bra with blue 

piping as she removes her shirt. 

JPEG_8[6752].jpg- A digital image that depicts what appears to be the same 

prepubescent girl shown in JPEG_8[6764].jpg, however an adult male has pulled the girl's 

clothing down exposing her breast. Brass colored rings are on the left hand of the male. 

JPEG_8[6736].jpg- A digital image that depicts what appears to be the prepubescent 

girl in the same setting as the images above. The girl is wearing a bra with a multi-colored 

pattern on it and the image depicts the front of her torso between her chin and just above her 

belly button. 

JPEG_8[6738].jpg- A digital image that depicts what appears to be the same 

prepubescent girl shown in JPEG_8[6736].jpg, however an adult male has pulled the girl's 

clothing down exposing her breast. Brass colored rings can be seen on the left hand of the adult 

male. 

19. Detective Bloomfield located several images depicting a young nude female child 

lying and sitting with what appears to be an adult male. The adult male has an erect penis and 

the young female is stroking his penis up and down with her hands. At least two of these images 

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depict the young female's face, she appears to be about five or six years of age. The images had 

been deleted and Detective Bloomfield was unable to recover EXIF data. 

20. Detective Bloomfield also observed other images of a non sexually explicit 

nature, similar to family snapshots, of an adult male and female by themselves, together and with 

what appeared to be the young female child that was depicted nude in images mentioned above. 

Detective Bloomfield printed some ofthe pictures he found. 

21. On 08113/2014 at about 1800 hours, Detective Bloomfield met with Officer 

Newell and showed Officer Newell the images that he had printed, including 

JPEG_8[6736].jpg, JPEG_8[6738].jpg, and JPEG_8[6750].jpg. Officer Newell identified 

images of the adult male as Ernest Luther Taylor, DOB XX/XX/1977. Officer Newell identified 

images of the adult female as Nicole Danielle Beasley. Officer Newell identified images of a 

female child as BH, DOB XX/XX/2007. Officer Newell looked at images that depicted a male 

subject with large brass rings pulling the bra away from a young female child as described above 

and said that the rings belonged to Ernest Luther Taylor. Officer Newell told Detective 

Bloomfield that she had served a search warrant at Ernest Taylor's residence on 02118/2014 and 

that when Ernest Luther Taylor was arrested he was wearing the rings in the images that 

Detective Bloomfield had printed. 

22. One of the images, JPEG_8[6750].jpg, depicted BH sitting in a chair that had 

wooden arm rests and black arm rest supports with tan and brown fabric. Officer Newell later 

recognized the chair as being in Ernest Taylor's residence at, 519 West 11th Street. Officer 

Newell has a photograph of the chair in the same room at the time she served a search warrant at 

the residence on 02118/2014. 

23. Officer Newell told Detective Bloomfield that Nicole Beasley is BH's mother. 

Officer Newell told Detective Bloomfield that Nicole Beasley and Ernest Taylor have been in a 

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relationship and that Ernest Luther Taylor would have had access to BH as a result. Officer 

Newell told Detective Bloomfield that Nicole Beasley and BH do not live with Ernest Taylor and 

that Nicole Beasley and BH live at, 1313 Prune Street, Medford, Oregon. 

24. Officer Newell told Detective Bloomfield that Nicole Beasley is not friendly with 

police and when Ernest Taylor was arrested for narcotics in February of2014, Nicole Beasley 

fled to Arizona with BH, but had since returned and is living at her own residence. 

25. On 08/13/2014, after viewing the printed images, Officer Newell drove Detective 

Bloomfield past Ernest Taylor's residence at 519 West 11th Street and they observed his vehicle, 

a 1991 Chevy Blazer with Oregon license plate QWT568 parked in the driveway. According to 

Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles records, the 1991 Chevy Blazer with Oregon license plate 

is registered to Ernest Taylor at, 519 West 11th Street, Medford, Oregon. 

26. On 08113/2014, Officer Newell drove Detective Bloomfield past Nicole Beasley's 

residence located at, 1313 Prune Street and they observed her vehicle, a 2004 Pontiac Grand Am 

with Oregon license plate 882FCS parked in the driveway. According to Oregon Department of 

Motor Vehicles records the 2004 Pontiac Grand Am with Oregon license plate 882FCS is 

registered to Nicole Beasley at, 1313 Prune Street, Medford, Oregon. 

27. Officer Newell told Detective Bloomfield that Medford Police Sergeant Ben Lytle 

would also be able to identify Ernest Luther Taylor and the rings that were worn in some of the 

Images. 

28. Either later in the evening after meeting with Officer Newell on 08/13/2014, or in 

the morning of 08/14/2014, Detective Bloomfield located five videos on the eight gigabyte micro 

SDHC media card. Detective Bloomfield determined that the five video were made between 

12117/2012 and 7/112013. The videos depict a prepubescent girl sucking on the penis of an adult 

male. Detective Bloomfield noticed that the videos share similar background items such as a 

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chair with wooden arm rests, black arm rest supports, and tan and brown colored fabric. The user 

creating the video pans to the ceiling light several times at which time figurines can be seen 

hanging from the ceiling near the light. The figurines appear to be some type of a star and a 

moon. 

29. On 04/20/2015 I viewed the following video files. The name and content ofthe 

videos are described, and the audio paraphrased, as follows: 

13baf864a9cl-06d070034.vdata- A digital video file, approximately 4 min 43 seconds 

long, which depicts a prepubescent girl sitting at a computer table watching cartoons on the 

computer. The girl is wearing a blue t-shirt over a white long sleeved shirt. The camera moves 

and records what appears to be a glow in the dark star hanging from the ceiling light. 

The male says - Come here, I wanna see how good of a cocksucker you are. 

The girl reaches into the pants of an adult male and exposes his penis. She strokes his 

penis up and down with her hands and sucks on the penis. The girl gets up and goes to the 

bathroom to blow her nose. The girl returns and complains that her nose is hurting. 

The male then says - See how long you can do it. 

The girl says- I can't do it, I can't do it. I have to stop 'cause, I have to stop. 

After the girl finishes sucking on the penis, the adult male says - That was good. 

13c25fd99761-06d070034.vdata- A digital video file, approximately nine seconds long, 

which depicts the prepubescent girl, wearing tie dye colored shirt over a long sleeve shirt that has 

a red colored rib at the bottom of the sleeves and appears to have a skull pattern on the sleeves, 

again sucking on the adult male's penis. The girl wipes something off the adult's penis. 

The girl says - Clean it off a little more. 

The girl then continues to suck on the penis. 

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13c25fd92531-06d070034.vdata- A digital video file, approximately 37 seconds long, 

which depicts the prepubescent girl, wearing tie dye colored shirt over a long sleeve shirt that 

has a red colored rib at the bottom of the sleeves and appears to have a skull pattern on the 

sleeves, again sucking on the adult male's penis. 

The adult male says - Suck some cock, up and down, keep going, good job. 

The girl stops sucking on the adult male's penis and pulls her shirt up exposing her 

vaginal area. 

13c4025cdefl-06d070034.vdata - A digital video file, approximately 49 seconds long, 

which depicts the prepubescent girl wearing green or gray colored clothing, again sucking on 

the adult male's penis. 

The adult male says - Like the longest ever, as a present. Have you ever, when you have 

it in your mouth roll your tongue around. Put it in your mouth and roll your tongue around on it, 

oh that one feels good. How much can you get in your mouth? Whoa, that was a lot! 

13f9cf8bf251-06d070034.vdata- A digital video file, approximately 58 seconds long, 

which depicts the prepubescent girl sucking on the adult male's penis. The male captures video 

of the ceiling and wall then pans down and records the girl who is nude and sucking on his penis. 

The adult male was wearing dark clothing and white socks with gray colored fabric at the toe 

area. 

The adult male says - Alright do it. Take all of it. Look up here. 

The girl looks up at the camera. 

The adult male says- Take it, now do it. 

The girl says - Did you get it? 

The adult male says -No, keep going. 

The girl says- Get it now? 

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The adult male says - Go up and down, try to get as much in there as you can. 

The girl tries to talk with the adult male's penis in her mouth. It appears the adult male 

ejaculates in the girl's mouth. 

The male says - Get it all in there. 

The girl gags, pulls back and drips fluid from her mouth while shaking her head from 

side to side. 

The girl says - I got most that I could, so ... 

The adult male says - Ok. 

The girl says - Did you get it? 

The adult male says - Yeah. 

The girl says - Can I see? 

The girl gets up off her knees. 

30. Detective Bloomfield noticed that the images and videos were located in a file 

path on the media card identified as, "Part_l\NO NAME-FAT32\DCIM\Vaulty\data\". 

Detective Bloomfield researched "Vaulty" and found that it is a free application used in 

conjunction with cellular devices (phones) to hide images and videos so other users will not find 

them. 

31. After discovering the images and videos mentioned above, Detective Bloomfield 

did not do any further analysis of the phone or laptop computer. 

32. On 08/14/2014 Detective Bloomfield met with Officer Jennifer Newell, DDA 

Terry Norton-Smith, Medford Police Sergeant Josh Reimer, Medford Police Sergeant Lytle and 

Medford Police Detective Stephanie Smith. Detective Bloomfield showed Sergeant Lytle, the 

images of the adult male with large brass rings on his hand and Sergeant Lytle identified him as 

Ernest Luther Taylor. Sergeant Lytle also identified images ofNicole Beasley and BH. Sergeant 

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Lytle told Detective Bloomfield that Ernest Luther Taylor and Nicole Beasley know each other 

and that Sergeant Lytle was present during the search warrant at 519 West 11th Street in 

Medford, Oregon on 02118/2014. Sergeant Lytle told Detective Bloomfield that Ernest Luther 

Taylor was wearing the large brass rings on his fingers at that time. 

33. Detective Bloomfield showed Officer Newell and Sergeant Lytle two of the 

videos mentioned above in this affidavit, one of which was 13baf864a9cl-06d070034.vdata. 

The videos contain complete audio. Officer Newell and Sergeant Lytle both identified the male 

voice in the videos as being that of Ernest Luther Taylor, who resides at 519 West 11th Street, 

Medford, Oregon. Officer Newell identified the young female child in the videos performing 

oral sex on the male subject as, BH. 

34. On 08/14/2014, Detective Bloomfield applied for and was granted a search 

warrant to search Ernest Luther Taylor's residence located at, 519 West 11th Street in the City of 

Medford, County of Jackson State of Oregon. On 08/15/2014 members ofthe Medford Police 

Department, Jackson County Sheriff's Department, FBI and Jackson County parole and 

probation served the search warrant at, 519 West 11th Street in the City of Medford. 

35. Upon entering the residence Detective Bloomfield discovered that Ernest Luther 

Taylor was not there. The search team seized evidence items. Evidence items that Detective 

Bloomfield observed in the mentioned images and videos were also seized connecting the 

images and videos to Ernest Luther Taylor's residence. Those items included a moon and star 

hanging figurine, adult size white socks with gray fabric at the toe area and an office chair with 

wooden arm rest, black arm rest supports and tan and brown colored fabric. 

36. Detective Bloomfield briefed Jackson County Deputy District Attorney, Terry 

Smith-Norton and she authorized entering a temporary warrant for Ernest Luther Taylor's arrest. 

A temporary warrant was entered on, 08/15/2014. On 08/15/2014 Del Norte County Sheriff's 

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Department contacted Ernest Luther Taylor and detained him in the Crescent City, California 

area. Sergeant Griffin of the Del Norte County Sheriffs Department applied for and was granted 

a search warrant to search Nicole Danielle Beasley's 1991 Pontiac Grand AM. Ernest Luther 

Taylor was in the vehicle at the time he was detained by Sergeant Griffin ofthe Del Norte 

County Sheriffs Department. Nicole Danielle Beasley and BH were also in the vehicle. 

37. Medford Police Detectives Justin Ivens, Kathryn Ivens, Stephanie Smith and 

Sergeant Josh Reimer responded to Del Norte County and contacted Sergeant Griffin. Upon 

executing the search warrant on the mentioned vehicle, several items of digital evidence were 

seized and transferred to Detective Justin Ivens by Sergeant Griffin. The items are identified as 

follows: 

1) Samsung brand cellular phone, model SGH-T839, bearing serial number 

R2EB514052A in a black nylon pouch (SOHTCTF Item # 1) 

2) Blackberry brand cellular phone black in color, model 9310, bearing IMEI 

number A00000261EE121 (SOHTCTF Item# 2) 

3) Samsung brand cellular phone black in color, model SGH-T839, bearing 

serial number R28B631152K (SOHTCTF Item# 3) 

4) Samsung brand cellular phone black in color, model SGH-T839, bearing 

IMEI number 354889/04/138861/0 (SOHTCTF Item# 4) 

5) Dell Inspiron Duo laptop computer black in color, service code number 

6958325881 (SOHTCTF Item# 5) 

6) Dell Inspiron Duo laptop computer black in color, service code number 8886751885, 

inside a black nylon case (SOHTCTF Item # 6) 

7) Clear plastic pill case containing 6 Micro SD storage media cards (SOHCTF 

Item# 7) 

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8) Dane Elec 1 GB USB storage device silver in color (SOHCTF Item# 8) 

38. Detective Bloomfield later met with Detective Justin Ivens at the Medford Police 

Department Property Control Facility and transported the items to the Southern Oregon High 

Tech Crimes Task Force (SOHTCTF) for forensic analysis. 

39. On 08/22/2014, Detective Bloomfield applied for and was granted a search 

warrant in Jackson County, Oregon, authorizing the analysis of the evidence listed above. 

40. On 08/25/2014, Detective Bloomfield began an analysis of the listed evidence 

beginning with SOHTCTF Item #1 described as a Samsung brand cellular phone, model SGHT839, bearing serial number R2EB514052A, in a black nylon pouch. This device contained a 32 

GB Micro SD Card that Detective Bloomfield processed with AccessData Forensic Tool Kit. 

41. Detective Bloomfield reviewed images recovered from the 32GB Micro SD Card 

and discovered at least 12 images that appear to be of the victim, BH. The images depict BH's 

breasts and vaginal area. Of the images, 10 are thumbnails that were created on XXIXX/2014. 

Thumbnail images can be created when a user chooses to view original images in a folder in the 

gallery view. XXIXX/20 14 was BH's birthday and Detective Bloomfield discovered that BH, 

Ernest Luther Taylor and BH's mother, Nichole Beasely were at Great Wolf Lodge outside of 

Olympia, Washington on BH's birthday. 

42. I have viewed the thumbnail images from this 32GB Micro SD Card and they are 

described below: 

1407018540888.jpg- A digital thumbnail of an image created on XX/XX/2014 at 

3:29:00 p.m. that depicts a prepubescent girl, believed by Detective Bloomfield to be BH, with 

her breasts exposed making them the focal point of the image. EXIF Information indicates this 

image was created on XXIXX/2014, BH's birthday. 

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1407018553267.jpg- A digital thumbnail of an of an image created on XX/XX/2014 at 

3:29:12 p.m. that depicts a close-up thumbnail image of the breasts of a prepubescent girl 

believed by Detective Bloomfield to be BH. EXIF Information indicates this image was created 

on XX/XX/2014, BH's birthday. 

1407018563268.jpg- A digital thumbnail of an image created on XX/XX/20 14 at 

3:29:22 p.m. that depicts a close-up thumbnail image of what appears to be the right breast of a 

· prepubescent girl believed by Detective Bloomfield to be BH, making her breast the focal point 

of the image. EXIF Information indicates this image was created on XX/XX/2014, BH's 

birthday. 

1407018584966.jpg- A digital thumbnail of an image created on XX/XX/2014 at 

3:29:44 p.m. that depicts a prepubescent girl, believed by Detective Bloomfield to be BH, with 

her shirt pulled down exposing her breasts making them the foc'!l point of the image. EXIF 

Information indicates this image was created on XX/XX/2014, BH's birthday. 

1407018631352.jpg- A digital thumbnail of an image created on XX/XX/2014 at 

3:30:30 p.m. that depicts the vaginal area of a prepubescent girl, making it the focal point of the 

image, believed by Detective Bloomfield to be BH. EXIF Information indicates this image was 

created on XX/XX/2014, BH's birthday. 

1407018644089.jpg- A digital thumbnail,of an image created on XX/XX/2014 at 

3:30:44 p.m. that depicts the vaginal area of a prepubescent girl, making it the focal point of the 

image, believed by Detective Bloomfield to be BH. EXIF Information indicates this image was 

created on XX/XX/2014, BH's birthday. 

1407018657221.jpg- A digital thumbnail of an image created on XX/XX/2014 at 

3:30:56 p.m. of a prepubescent girl believed by Detective Bloomfield to be BH, lying naked on 

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her back on a bed. EXIF Information indicates this image was created on XX/XX/2014, BH's 

birthday. 

1407018747887.jpg- A digital thumbnail of an image created on XX/XX/2014 at 

3:32:26 p.m. of a close-up of the vagina of a prepubescent girl believed by Detective Bloomfield 

to be BH. EXIF Information indicates this image was created on XX/XX/2014, BH's birthday. 

1407018757056.jpg- A digital thumbnail of an image created on XX/XX/2014 at 

3:32:36 p.m. of a close-up of the vagina of a prepubescent girl believed by Detective Bloomfield 

to be BH. EXIF Information indicates this image was created on XX/XX/2014, BH's birthday. 

1407379312155.jpg- A digital thumbnail of an image created on 08/06/2014 at 7:41:52 

p.m. of a prepubescent girl with her shirt pulled up exposing her breasts believed by Detective 

Bloomfield to be BH. 

1407379312336.jpg- A digital thumbnail of an image created on 08/06/2014 at 7:41:52 

p.m. that depicts a prepubescent girl with her breasts exposed believed by Detective Bloomfield 

to be BH. In the background of the image clothing can be seen. The clothing appears to be a set 

of pajamas and a long sleeve shirt with skulls on the shirt. Both articles of clothing were 

photographed and or seized during the service of search warrants associated with the 

investigation. Also in the image, part of a hand with large brass objects on it can be seen. 

Detective Bloomfield believes the hand is that of Ernest Taylor and the brass objects are most 

likely that of his brass rings that were photographed and seized during the investigation. 

43. Detective Bloomfield also identified numerous images that appear to have been 

taken at the Great Wolf Lodge in Washington State on XX/XX/2014, the day before BH's 

birthday. These images depict the inside of the lodge, the water park attraction, slides, pools, 

and hotel room. Through his investigation, Detective Bloomfield found that the Great Wolf 

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. Lodge is owned by the Chehalis Indian Tribe and that the tribe has its own law enforcement 

officers. 

44. On or about 08/26/2014, Detective Bloomfield contacted Officer Bernett 

(Chehalis Indian Tribe law enforcement) via phone and explained the investigation to him. 

Detective Bloomfield asked Officer Bernett if he could verify registration information pertaining 

to Ernest Luther Taylor specifically on, XX/XX/2014 and inquired if he could obtain photos of 

the front of the resort and the room Ernest Luther Taylor stayed in with Nicole Beasley and BH. 

45. Officer Bernett and Detective Matt Bogart (Chehalis Indian Tribe law 

enforcement) assisted with his request. Detective Bogart advised Detective Bloomfield that 

Ernest Luther Taylor was checked into the Great Wolf Lodge on, XX/XX/2014 and had stayed in 

room #1041. 

46. Detective Bloomfield located the sexually explicit thumbnail images in the 

"DCIM" folder on the Micro SD Card. "DCIM" stands for, Digital Camera Images. The DCIM 

folder is the default folder where images are stored when they are taken and saved. The default 

naming convention for an image taken with the Samsung SGH-T839 cellular phone refers to the 

date and time the image was taken. For example, if an image is taken on August 31st, 2014 at 

3:00PM, the image name would appear as, "2014-08-31 15.00.00.jpg". 

47. Detective Bloomfield extracted information from the Samsung SGH-T839 

cellular phone pertaining to email sent from the email account, "lilbudboy24@yahoo.com to 

xscape_mental_patient@yahoo.com. The emails have several attachments which are identified 

as .jpg (image) files. The date and time naming convention of the files attached and sent via 

email, coincide with the date and time the thumbnails were created that depict BH in sexually 

explicit poses. Detective Bloomfield did not locate the original images on the Samsung SGH17 

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T839 cellular phone or Micro SD Card. Detective Bloomfield was only able to recover the 

thumbnails images that were created when the original images were viewed using the device. 

48. The screen shot below, provided by Detective Bloomfield is of information 

captured from the Samsung SGH-T839 cellular phone showing email sent from 

"lilbudboy24@yahoo.com" to "xscape_mental_patient@yahoo.com" with the mentioned 

attachments, some of which are named with names that appear to coincide with the dates and 

times the sexually explicit images of BH mentioned above were created. 

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To: 2014-08-02 15.29.00.jpg 

xscape_mental_patient IDyahoo.c 2014-08-02 15.29.12(2).jpg 

om 2014-08-02 15.29.12(3).jpg 

<xscape_mental_patient@yahoo. Body file: mes-111 .eml 

com> 

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03:11:02 UTC+O 234 n.n ;;.;.;...;.;. : =.;;..;...;;...;..;:.-. ________ .., ~menm: 

rbudboy24@yahoo.com < > 2014-08-02 15.29.34.jpg 

To: 2014-08-02 15.29.23.jpg 

xscape_mental_patien yahoo.c 2014-08-02 15.30.31 .jpg 

om 2014-08-02 15.29.44.jpg 

<xscape_mental_patient@yahoo. 2014-08-02 15.29.23(2).jpg 

com> 2014-08-02 15.29.34(2).jpg 

--------------.....1 2014-08-02 15.29.44(2).j 

2014-08-02 15.30.31 (2).jpg 

2014-08-02 15.29.23(3).jpg 

2014-08-02 15.29.34(3).jpg 

Body file: mes-114.eml 

Coincides with a 

sexually explicit 

thumbnail image. 

49. Detective Bloomfield applied for and was granted a search warrant for the email 

content for the two Yahoo! email accounts identified as, "lilbudboy24@yahoo.com and 

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xscape_mental_patient@yahoo.com". On 09/042014, Detective Bloomfield served Yahoo with 

the search warrant per their policy and procedure. On 12/03/2014, Detective Bloomfield 

received the Yahoo! response. Detective Bloomfield reviewed the information he received 

pursuant to the Yahoo! search warrant. Detective Bloomfield found that the name "david 

thomis" had been used in conjunction with the xscape _ mental_patient@yahoo.com email 

account. Detective Bloomfield's investigation showed that Ernest Luther Taylor used his actual 

name (Ernest Taylor) and the name "David Thomis" with the 

xscape _ mental_patient@yahoo.com email account. 

50. Based on the response from Yahoo!, Detective Bloomfield found that Ernest 

Luther Taylor had sent sexually explicit images that appear to match those described above from 

his lilbudboy24@yahoo.com account to the xscape_mental_patient@yahoo.com account. The 

images sent between these two accounts maintained their file names based on the default naming 

convention for an image taken with the Samsung SGH-T839, such as 2014-08-02 15.29.12.jpg, 

which appears to be the same image as 1407018553267.jpg described .above, which was created 

on 08/02/2014 at 3:29:12 p.m. 

51. Detective Bloomfield also recovered digital video files from this 32 GB Micro SD 

Card. In this video, Ernest Luther Taylor is video recording BH and another juvenile female 

friend whose DOBis XXIXX/2007 (the female has been identified by Detective Stephanie 

Smith). The video was created on 06115/2014. Sgt. Lytle and Detective Shannon Reynolds of 

the Medford Police Department identified the background ofthe video as being inside 1313 

Prune Street (Nicole Beasley and BH's residence). 

52. During the video Ernest Luther Taylor speaks inappropriately about helping BH 

and her friend make their "boobies grow" and he encourages the girls to let him help them "learn 

some things". 

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53. When Detective Bloomfield reviewed this video recording, Detective Bloomfield 

heard the voice of an adult male who Detective Bloomfield believes is Ernest Taylor saying to 

BH that he has helped BH "grow her boobies" and how they talk about "everything" including 

"S-E-X" according to BH. BH also exposes her breasts while Ernest Luther Taylor films the act. 

Ernest Luther Taylor also refers to himself as "Hippy" during the video, which is a known 

nickname of his. At one point during the video, Ernest Luther Taylor records his reflection in a 

mirror and BH exposing her breasts while he video records. Ernest Luther Taylor's voice is 

distinct and clear throughout the video. 

Conclusion 

54. Based on the foregoing, I have probable cause to believe, and I do believe, that 

Ernest Luther Taylor, DOB XX/XX/1977, currently lodged in the Jackson County Jail, used a 

minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of creating a visual depiction of that 

act, used a minor in his custody to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of creating 

a visual depiction of that act and manufactured, possessed, distributed, transported images of 

child pornography in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Sections 2251 (a), 2251 (b), 

2252(a)(2), 2252A(a)(2), and 2252A(a)(5)(B). I therefore request that the court issue a warrant 

authorizing the arrest of Ernest Luther Taylor DOB XX/XX/1977. 

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54. This affidavit and the requested arrest warrant were all reviewed by Assistant 

United States Attorney (AUSA) Judith R. Harper prior to being submitted to the court. AUSA 

Harper informed me that in her opinion, the affidavit and application are legally and factually 

sufficient to establish probable cause to support the issuance of the requested warra 

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trout 

Special Agent, FBI 

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