CALIFORNIA
Union-Tribune
By Onell R. Soto
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
December 22, 2004
A Roman Catholic priest whose Point Loma parish office was raided by federal agents and San Diego police in May has been charged with 20 misdemeanor counts of possessing child pornography.
The Rev. Gary Michael Holtey has not been arrested, has been cooperating with authorities through his lawyer and is scheduled to be arraigned today in San Diego Superior Court, a prosecutor said yesterday.
Deputy City Attorney Judy Taschner said she will ask a judge to set bail at $50,000.
Holtey is one of more than 100 people in San Diego and Imperial counties linked to child-pornography sites through credit card transactions in an international investigation, authorities said.
Agents searched the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church and Academy parish office and found printouts of child erotica and pornography, gay pornography videos, film negatives of nude males, two computers and WebTV, a device used for accessing the Internet on a television, according to court documents.
Posted by kshaw at December 22, 2004 09:05 AM