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The suspect,
40-year-old Kevin Trask, was taken into custody by a Fairbanks
International Airport police officer on Tuesday, the U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement.
Trask initially provided a false identity before later admitting
to being wanted for felony child pornography charges in
California, the agency said.
An attorney for Trask, who officials said was under indictment
in California, could not be immediately reached.
Federal officials in San Francisco began investigating Trask in
March 2012 after alleging he downloaded a video of child
pornography. Authorities searched his residence in May of that
year, after which Trask quit his job and moved to San Diego, the
agency said.
Trask was then indicted in November 2012 after an investigation
uncovered evidence he possessed or shared some 700 images and 10
videos, some of which included "sadomasochism and sex acts with
toddlers," the agency said.
Authorities unsuccessfully attempted to find Trask in San Diego
in late 2012 and early 2013, the agency said. Trask eluded
arrest for four years.
Trask was being transported by the U.S. Marshals Service to
California to face the charges, the agency said.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Lisa
Shumaker)
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