FOUR MONTH INVESTIGATION LEADS TO ARREST OF REDMOND MAN FOR POSSESSION AND DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

Redmond Police Dept.

On Tuesday, August 9, 2022, after a four-month investigation, Redmond Police Department (RPD) officers executed a search warrant on 47-year-old Redmond resident Brian Zollman’ s residence for Encouraging Child Sex Abuse in the first degree and second degree.  Mr. Zollman was transported and lodged at the Deschutes County jail for six counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the first degree and ten counts of Encouraging Child Sexual Abuse in the second degree.   
 

Based on information learned during this investigation, Mr. Zollman may have had access to children in Redmond, Oregon, and Bend, Oregon.  If your child has had contact with Mr. Zollman over the last year, or if you have information regarding this case (RPD case #22-18415), please contact RPD through dispatch, 541-693-6911. 
 

RPD would like to thank The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force, and the Central Oregon Digital Forensic Laboratory for their assistance with this investigation.  If you want to report child sexual exploitation you can do so through Deschutes County Dispatch, 541-693-6911, or through NCMEC’s Cyber Tip Line, https://report.cybertip.org, which is the nations centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children.  You can make reports of suspected online enticement of children for sexual acts, child sexual molestation, child sex abuse material, child sex tourism, child sex trafficking, unsolicited obscene materials sent to a child, misleading domain names, and misleading words or digital images on the internet.