South Dakota
Suspected pedophile kills himself when confronted by predator hunter at his South Dakota home
A suspected pedophile killed himself moments after he admitted to watching child pornography to a predator hunter outside his South Dakota home.
Donald Letcher, 60, described the graphic detail of the disturbing videos that featured children as young as infants to Predator Poachers founder Alex Rosen, according to footage shared by the “Breanna Morello Show” podcast.
Letcher described his atrocious viewing pleasures, which featured males holding down babies as they “ejaculated” on them.
After hearing enough evidence, Rosen called in a police officer and got Letcher to admit his heinous act to the cop.
As the officer called his supervisor, Letcher walked inside and a “pop” was heard.
The crew outside say they didn’t think much of it because it “wasn’t a loud shot,” but it was later revealed that Letcher shot himself in the head with a .22 bullet.
“The cop breaks the door down and then one of my camera guys goes around the window and sees him (Letcher) on the ground with a hole in his head bleeding out of it,” Rosen said.
Letcher was airlifted to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to Rosen.
The pedophile had reached out to Rosen’s team, who were posing as a preteen girl, and asked for “nudes.”
“This guy messaged us first in April, and all the messages he was pretty sexual, asking us for nudes thinking we were a 12-year-old girl,” Rosen said.
The predator hunter said he had Letcher graphically describe the videos to ensure the creep admitted to the crimes for video evidence.
“When they describe basically everything they see, it leaves no doubt they’re guilty of watching and possessing that stuff,” he added.
Letcher reportedly molested a 9-year-old girl in 1996, a fact unknown to Rosen at the time of his conversation, but the case was overturned by the South Dakota Supreme Court.
“The justice system never held him accountable,” Rosen said.
Letcher was also hit with DUI and hit-and-run charges after he ran over a 6-year-old girl in a “non-pedophile” incident in 2022.
The National Weather Service has issued a RED FLAG WARNING for western South Dakota from Noon to 11 p.m. local time, Thursday, July 25. A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now or will shortly. A combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and warm temperatures can contribute to extreme fire behavior creating ideal conditions for wildland fires to start easily and spread quickly.
Counties within the Red Flag Warning area include Butte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade, Oglala Lakota, Pennington, and Perkins counties.
South Dakota Wildland Fire advises extreme caution with any potential fire ignition sources today. Please avoid any outdoor burning during this time, using tools that generate sparks, dragging chains from trailers, throwing cigarette butts out a car window, and parking in tall, dry grass.
If you see a wildland fire call 911 immediately. Be aware that in conditions like these, fires may spread quickly.
For more information about fire prevention visit https://wildlandfire.sd.gov/.
SDWF is an agency of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.
PIERRE, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – A former Department of Social Services employee accused of stealing nearly $1.8 million from the state is making her first court appearance Thursday in Hughes County.
Lonna Carroll, 68, of Algona, Iowa, is charged with two felony counts of Aggravated Grand Theft. She was arrested last week in Iowa and extradited to South Dakota.
Carroll is accused of taking the money while serving as an employee for the department’s Child Protection Services program, where she had control of the funds. South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley said Carroll essentially acted as her own supervisor, both requesting and approving funds for CPS cases.
Jackley stated that it’s very unlikely that the $1.78 million stolen will be recovered.
According to state lawmakers, the South Dakota Government Operations and Audit Committee is likely to address the $1.78 million stolen from the Department of Social Services in its upcoming meetings.
Carroll’s initial court appearance is scheduled for 1:15 p.m. CST. Dakota News Now will be in Pierre covering the case.
The maximum sentence for Count One is 25 years in prison and a $50,000 fine. The maximum sentence for Count Two is 15 years in prison and a $30,000 fine. Carroll is presumed innocent under the U.S. Constitution.
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Jackley Joins Attorneys General Group in Opposing Biden Proposal to Reschedule Marijuana as Schedule III Drug
South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley joins other Attorney Generals in opposing a Biden Administration proposal to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the federal Controlled Substances Act.
Jackley is one of 11 Attorneys General to submit a public letter opposing the proposal. If approved, the classification would be a step towards fully legalizing marijuana at the federal level.
“South Dakota voters have legalized medical marijuana and will have the opportunity this election to determine whether to legalize recreational marijuana in our state,” said Jackley. “The Biden Administration’s attempt to reschedule marijuana right before the election without proper authority will be harmful to states like South Dakota that have not fully legalized both medical and recreational marijuana.”
Jackley said if the reclassification occurs, it will not impact the way local authorities enforce the state law.
Other Attorneys General who are part of the public comment letter are from: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska and South Carolina.
The letter can be found here:
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