{"id":762,"date":"2026-06-25T10:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=762"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:38:21","slug":"keaau-man-43-faces-federal-child-pornography-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"Keaau man, 43, faces federal child pornography charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>A 43-year-old Keaau man is facing federal charges after allegedly using the Snapchat messaging app to lure a 15-year-old girl into sex at an Airbnb property on the Big Island.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=760\">Brazil, Vinicius Junior overwhelm Scotland 3-0, Tartan Army party could be over<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A 43-year-old Keaau man is facing federal charges after allegedly using the Snapchat messaging app to lure a 15-year-old girl into sex at an Airbnb property on the Big Island.<\/p>\n<p>Jeramie Talos Arend, a residential manager in Keaau who is from Kailua, Oahu, was charged June 15 with producing, receiving and distributing child pornography. He made his initial appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Wes Reber Porter and is in custody at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu, with a detention hearing scheduled for Friday.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion to have Arend held without bail until his trial. He has a misdemeanor conviction from 2008 for failure to appear for a court date in California and is facing a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 15 years, \u201cwhich is a substantial amount of time that could motivate him to flee,\u201d federal prosecutors argued.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI is aware of a flight to Japan booked by Arend for August, and federal prosecutors said they are concerned he will skip town if released before trial.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the FBI\u2019s Hono\u00adlulu Field Office opened an investigation after the Hawaii Police Department\u2019s Juvenile Aid Section reached out about two underage girls who allegedly were raped by adults.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii Island police got a search warrant for the Snapchat account belonging to a 15-year-old girl identified in federal court documents as \u201cminor victim 2\u201d or \u201cMV2\u201d and found evidence she had sent multiple selfies and nude videos and photos of herself to the Snapchat username \u201cjusfokiks\u201d \u2014 belonging to the defendant \u2014 between March and May 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=758\">Honokaa man accused of using social media to solicit sex from minor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arend allegedly used his Snapchat account to send the girl nude photos and videos of himself masturbating, and videos and images of himself and MV2. Arend also sent multiple videos he recorded of him raping the girl, federal prosecutors allege.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii Island police found Arend\u2019s YouTube channel and were able to match images of him and of him in the Airbnb unit on Hawaii Island shown in the rape videos, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>On April 14, FBI agents interviewed MV2 and showed her a picture of Arend without identifying him. She told them she knew him and that they met on Snapchat. The girl also said she was just \u201cmessing around\u201d with him when they were talking, but then he came to Hawaii Island and rented an Airbnb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMV2 never wanted to go and never wanted to talk to him. MV2 was in a bad place, and when she\u2019s like that, she does bad things. She snuck out of her house and went to the Airbnb,\u201d according to the court documents detailing her interview. The 15-year-old told the FBI that she had sex with Arend and that he had grabbed his phone and recorded it.<\/p>\n<p>She told the FBI that Arend knew how old she was and said \u201csomething to the effect of, \u2018You\u2019re going to get me in trouble,\u2019 which she believed was because of her age,\u201d the court documents said.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI included examples of Snapchat messages Arend allegedly sent the girl that contained graphic descriptions of the sex assault.\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movingtohawaiiguide.com\/?p=756\">Volcano man accused of noncompliance with sex offender registration<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keaau man, 43, faces federal child pornography charges &#8211; Hawaii News | Hawaii Tribune-Herald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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